Trove Tuesday: Obituary of Andrew Auld

You have mail !!!

Over the last week I received an email from Troves notification service, notifying me that an article in the Queensland Times was now available to view online.

Obituary of Andrew Auld

Born 31 July 1869 to parents Andrew Auld and Jane Marshall, Andrew passed away 27 September 1937 in Lark Hill, Queensland.

Source: ROSEWOOD DISTRICT. (1937, September 28). Queensland Times (Ipswich) (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), p. 9 Edition: DAILY.. Retrieved September 10, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article124593705

Trove Tuesday: Troves notification service

Several weeks ago in the course of researching Auld obituaries, I came across an article which was part way through the digitisation process. For users of the Digitised newspapers on Trove, these articles will be noticeable by being grayed out and the words [coming soon] appended to the end of the newspaper article title. An example of a current article (as of today) that is part way through this process follows:

Example of notification service on Trove. Retrieved August 13, 2013.

Having an interest in the obituary article I had found, I signed up to the notification service by typing in my email address into the field provided then I clicked on the "Email me when available" button.

Last Saturday evening I was pleasantly surprised to see an email from Trove with the following subject heading:

Trove - National Library of Australia - newspaper/magazine article availability notification

On opening the message the text reminds the reader of what article(s) have changed status on Trove and have completed the quality assurance process and is now available for general access. All of the articles that have changed status are then listed, for example the obituary I was after had the following text:

The following article has completed quality assurance processing and is now available for you to access:
  Newspaper/magazine: Queensland Times (Ipswich) (Qld. : 1909 - 1954)
  Issue: Monday 31 May 1909
  Page: 7 Edition: DAILY
  Article: OBITUARY.
  Web URL: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/112057171

I proceeded to click on the link provided and the article was displayed in my browser. A few corrections to the text later, as well as tagging the individuals and places mentioned in the text, and the text was ready to use in my research with the citations conveniently provided by Trove.

Another newspaper comes online

With the notification I received from Trove, I am also alerted to the fact that another newspaper is now available, or is in the process of coming online. In this particular instance the newspaper is the Queensland Times (Ipswich) and covers the period 1909 - 1954. Some background history to the publication is also available on Wikipedia.

The article found relates to an obituary for John Livingstone Auld which was printed in the Queensland Times (Ipswich) on 31 May 1909.

Obituary of John Livingston Auld

Source: OBITUARY. (1909, May 31). Queensland Times (Ipswich) (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), p. 7 Edition: DAILY.
Retrieved August 13, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112057171

Trove Tuesday: Susannah Auld [Photo]

Every time you look at Trove, there is something new to discover from newspaper publications coming online through to new photographs being indexed. Photographs can be searched from the main Trove homepage, or via the Trove Pictures, photos, object homepage.

Pictures, pictures, pictures...

With it's roots formed from the National Library of Australia's discovery service Picture Australia back in 2000, the service has now been absorbed by and included as one of the treasures of Trove. A total of 7,208,209 items are indexed in this fabulous section of Trove.

Contemporary images are also indexed from the Flickr group Trove: Australia in Pictures which, at the time of writing this blog post, contained some 162,065 images.

Susannah Auld nee Mills (1855-1923)

A search of Trove revealed the following photograph of Susannah Auld and her daughter Agnes...

Susannah Auld and her eldest daughter Agnes, Ipswich, ca. 1900 [F. A. Whitehead Studio]
Source: FA Whitehead Collection, Picture Ipswich [1090]

The daughter of John Mills and Agnes Warburton, Susannah was born 3 January 1855 in Accrington LAN ENG. On 12 December 1880, Susannah married coal miner come engine keeper John Livingston Auld at the St James Church in Accrington. At the time of the 1881 English census on 3 April, Susannah Auld was listed with her new husband living at 9 Hope Street Accrington, having an occupation of cotton weaver.

John and Susannah had two children, Archibald and Agnes [pictured], before the young family left England and immigrated to Brisbane QLD AUS in November 1883 onboard the Zamora. Settling in Ipswich QLD, the couple went on to have another eight children:

• Archibald Auld (b.1881)
• Agnes Auld (b.1882)
• John Mills Auld (b.1884)
• Charles Frederick Auld (b.1886)
• Robert Alexander Auld (b.1887)
• Margaret Livingston Auld (b.1889)
• Lillian Mills Auld (b.1891)
• Florence Livingston Auld (b.1892)
• Dora Evelyn Auld (b.1895)
• Blanche McAllister Auld (b.1897)

F.A. Whitehead, Ipswich

Interestingly the studio that took the photograph of Susannah and Agnes Auld, F.A. Whitehead of Ipswich, is still operational and can be found online at Whitehead Studios. According to Alan Davies’ and Peter Stanbury’s book The mechanical eye in Australia: photography 1841-1900, Francis Arnold Whitehead started his photography business in Ellensborough Street Ipswich in 1883. He carried on at this address until 1889, at which point he moved to Brisbane Street in Ipswich.

Historic images from the Whitehead Studios are being digitised by Ipswich Library and will be made available through their Picture Ipswich collection.