People are your greatest resource.....
- Join Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society (DTHS)(and other societies) to meet with people who not only have an interest but, in many cases, a great wealth of knowledge gained from decades of personal research.
- Join other Historical Societies: Royal Historical Society of Victoria has an online list of Victorian historical societies that you can contact
Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society
- Visit Us at the Schramm's Cottage Museum Complex
- Search this website
- Browse the
- List of all stories on the DTHS website (a "sitemap")
- DTHS Newsletter archive going back all the way to the society's formation in 1967. All research from these newsletters is being progressively republished on this website.
- Album of Photos used on the Screensaver at Schramm's Cottage Museum
- Highest quality versions of all images so far scanned by DTHS. Any images scanned or donated to DTHS are immediately available to the world via this link.
- DTHS Youtube Channel with videos we have collected
- DTHS History Map showing locations and information about historic locations around Doncaster and Templestowe
- DTHS Victorian Collections - DTHS is preparing to move its main collection database onto this site to join the many community groups exhibiting there.
- DTHS Facebook: We try to place a historical research items on Facebook when we have time. Try searching if you are a Facebook user.
- DTHS instagram: We try to place images when we have time.
- We no longer use Picture Victoria in association with Manningham Library. But we have in the past published a large collection of photo thumbnails on the Heritage Database.
Organisations with History Information
- Museums Victoria
- Visit to access most resources and get assistance
- Online collections with many images and some articles:
- Royal Historical Society of Victoria
- Visit to access most resources only accessible via a visit but they do list the contents of collections including library book catalogue and image catalogue - but no direct online digital access.
- Box Hill Historical Society - South border of DTHS.
- Doncaster RSL Sub Branch
- Warrandyte Historical Society - North west border of DTHS. Very limited online resources
- Whitehorse Historical Society
- Whitehorse Manningham Library
- Heritage Database - online database run by the local government library services that lists items shared to it by local historical societies. Items are not directly accessible online.
- Cemetery Database - Cemetery gravestones in local cemeteries
- Diggers Database - Service men and women fomr the area
- Petition Database - women living in Whitehorse in 1891 who signed the woman’s suffrage petition.
- National Library of Australia has wonderful online resources as well as lists of references that you may have to send away for:
- Trove online database of digitised resources including NEWSPAPERS): Doncaster, Templestowe,
(Become a TROVE volunteer to help correct the database as you read !) - Victorian Government Gazettes (via AustLi) - Many think this is a better database than the one provided by the Victorian Government
- Find a Grave - information and GPS location of graves across the world
- Billion Graves - information and GPS location of graves across the world
- Australian Cemeteries - search for names
- Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust - Search for graves
- Births, Deaths & Marriages Victoria - Get information abount some next of kin and years of events free. Full certificates cost money.
- Ryerson Index: The Ryerson Index is a free index to death notices appearing in Australian newspapers. The date range covered extends from the Sydney Gazette of 1803 up to newspapers published within the last week or so. The Index also includes many funeral notices, and some probate notices and obituaries.
- National Archives of Australia - All books published in Australia, Individual Military Records
Facebook Sites & Blogs
- These sites are VERY extensive and rich in terms of images, information and contacts, but are only easily accessible to people with a Facebook account.
- Facebook has some help on searching within the Facebook site.
- Facebook: Pound Bend
- Facebook: National Family History Month: The Facebook page for National Family Family History Month in Australia, an initiative every August of AFFHO (Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations)
- Facebook Page: Doncaster Yesterday and Today: Reflecting on the development of the Doncaster District from the 1840's to the present day, with special attention to German heritage and fruit growing. (Admin: Chris & Wendy Thiele ?)
- Facebook Group - We grew up in Doncaster (Admins: Ben Frawley, Craig Martin, Sharon Pickering, Claire Seppings)
- Facebook Group - We grew up in Templestowe (Admin: Ben Frawley & others)
- Facebook Group - We Live in Manningham (Admin: Ben Gollow)
- Facebook Group: We Grew up in Bulleen. Admin
- RDO melbourne
- Park Orchards Heritage Trail
General Information Sites
- Rate Books: Unrestricted classified permanent records transferred to the Public Record Office of Victoria during 2008. Accessible through Public Records Office of Victoria (PROV) reading rooms, 99 Shiel Street, North Melbourne open Monday to Friday from 10 am to 4.30 pm as well as on the second & last Saturday of Month (Public Holidays excepted).
- Shire of Doncaster Rate Books: VPRS15135, Unit Numbers 4 to 9 (1898/99-1899/1900 to 1908/09-1909/10).
- Shire of Templestowe Rate Books VPRS15131, Unit Numbers 9 to 26 (1900 to 1910 -Templestowe Riding & Warrandyte Riding).
- Terry Everett, Coordinator Revenue Services, Manningham Civic Centre 699 Doncaster Road (PO Box1) Doncaster, Victoria 3108 Ph: 9840 9252 Terry.Everett@manningham.vic.gov.au www.manningham.vic.gov.au
- Directories of historical information - Listed by State Library of Victoria. Many published digitally
- Sands and McDougall Directories 1857-1880 digitised by University of Melbourne. Contains lists of people known to be living at each Melbourne address. Downloaded to our Resources Folder:
1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865,1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870,1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875,1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880 - Sands and McDougall Directories digitised by State Library of Victoria. Downloaded to our Resources Folder:
1860, 1865, 1870,1875, 1880, 1885, 1890, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1915, 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1945,1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, 1974 - Pinterest Explore Melbourne Victoria and More
- Wikipedia: Doncaster, Templestowe, Doncaster East, Bulleen, Box Hill, and hundreds more...
(Volunteer to help correct and add to Wikipedia.) - Aerial Photographs 1945: Wonderful side by side aerial view of Melbourne 1945 with present day ! http://1945.melbourne/
- Aerial Photographs 1945: High resolution downloads: http://maps-collection.library.unimelb.edu.au/historical/1945melb/
- Vic Maps Topographical Maps. Victoria State Government Department of Environment Land and Planning has an online mapping service where you can purchase and download topographical maps of Victoria
- Manningham Council Live Map Online - You can view aerials for years 1956, 1966, 1974, 1982, 1991, 2009, 2013, 2019 and 2021.
Click on the “stack" icon (above) at right to get map years.Scroll to the area/street you are interested in and zoom in.Current property/ allotment and street numbers are identified on all the aerials. - Helen Doxford Harris - Researcher and record compiler re. police activities in Victoria
Books/ Publications from DTHS
- Schramm's Cottage Complex revised by Eric Collyer 2005. 20p. $5.00
- Doncaster: a short history by Eric Collyer. 84p. $10
- Bulleen: a short history by Judith Leaney 1991. 40p. $5
- Waldau Cemetery Register 18p. $5
- German Pioneer Families in Australia printed 1935 reprinted 1986. 143 Pages. $10
- The Tower and the Tram at Doncaster by Irvine Green & Ken Smith 1980. 8p. $2
- The orchards of Doncaster and Templestowe, Green, Irvine & Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society 1985, Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society, Vic 64p. $10
- Power In The East by John White 1986. 9 Pages. $2
- Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Doncaster, Victoria compiled by Eric Uebergang and Mary Plumb 1997. 80 Pages. $5
- Tram Poster Facsimile of historic poster. $5
- Schramm's Cottage cards packet of 6. $5
- Historic Calendar photographs of Doncaster & Templestowe. $10
- Hand coloured cards with envelopes. $3
Other Books
- Manningham : from country to city, Arcadia, Melbourne - Pertzel & Walters 2001
- Doncaster - Search books in the State Library of Victoria
- Templestowe - Search books in the State Library of Victoria
- Irvine Green:
- Schramms cottage complex : including Schramms cottage, Fingers Barn, the Orchard Museum, Waldau Cemetery, the Box Hill - Doncaster Tram, the Gazebo from Templestowe Cemetery, by Green, Irvine Donvale, Vic. : Doncaster - Templestowe Historical Society, 1993
- The orchards of Doncaster Templestowe / by Irvine Green Donvale, Vic. : Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society, 1985
- History of the Doncaster Rotary Club / by Irvine Green [Doncaster, Vic.] : Rotary Club of Doncaster, 1993
- Petticoats in the orchard / Irvine Green Donvale, Vic. : Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society, 1987
- Aborigines of Bulleen : the history of the Aborigines of the Wurundjeri tribe who inhabited the area which became the city of Doncaster and Templestowe / Irvine Green Donvale [Vic.] : Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society, 1989
- Early days : a geographical history of Doncaster - Templestowe / by Irvine Green Donvale [Vic.] : Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society, 1980
- Templestowe : the story of Templestowe and Bulleen / written and illustrated by Irvine Green Donvale, Vic. : Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society, 1982
- Park Orchards : a short history / by Irvine Green and Beatty Beavis
- Donvale, Vic. : Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society, 1983 ?????
- Victorian splendour : Australian interior decorations, 1837-1901 / Suzanne Forge ; photographs by Irvine Green by Forge, Suzanne Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1981
- Waldau Cemetery Register / compiled by Eric Collyer and Irvine Green Donvale, Vic. : Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society, c1988
- Doncaster: a short history / by Eric Collyer and Ken Smith ; illustrated by Irvine Green Donvale, Vic. : Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society, 1981
- Tails up [Melbourne] : Comment Publications, [ca. 1943]
- The Tower and tram at Doncaster Donvale [Vic.] : Doncaster-Templestowe Historical Society, 1980
- Fruits of their labours : orchard empire to urban affluence : a folk history of Doncaster - Joan Webster OAM - Facebook - NLA Available from Joan via Facebook
- Fruits of the orchard : the family of Henry White & Elizabeth Raney, 150 years in Australia, 1849-1999 / compiled & edited by the White Family Tree Committee, 1993-1999 - Available from latimerfamily4@gmail.com @ $75 - See Extracts
- History of Doncaster & Templestowe - Graeme Keogh
- Templestowe - A Folk History - Hazel Poulter - Purchase: Abe Books $10
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