The Hamilton History Centre holds many family histories and biographies which have been written and compiled by local historians. These are available to be viewed in the library. We may also be able to do lookups and in some cases provide copies where copyright provisions permit.
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In the Shadow of the Mount
Addinsall family History 1640-1993
History of the Addinsall Family 1777-1978
The Albert Family History 1821-1980
The Albert Family History 1821-1983 (2nd Edition)
Down Memory Lane 1807-1983, See also under Bremner
From Montrose to Rosemount
Annett Biography File
Hope and Fulfilment
Boots and Saddles
From Wollaston to Australia
A Barber Family History 1753-1993
Transported to a Better Life (under Gough)
My Dear Children -The Letters of James Best
Black Family History 1855-1979
Family History of Leslie Charles Black
Blackney Family
Next To Impossible
People and Places
Fragments Together - The Botterills
Sarah Jane Hale, later Boys and Glasse, See under Hale
Down Memory Lane 1807-1983. See also under Alexander
True Men Of Devon - The Broughtons
The Browns of Bil Bil Wyt
Story of Leonard Buckley
Burger Family History, Book 1
Burger Family History, Book 2
Moments and Memories
Alexander Cameron - King of Penola
The Founders - Penola
Penola - Historical Selections, page 100
The March of the Cameron Men
Penola Commemorative Biographies
Cameron Genealogy - 3 Volumes
Cameron Genealogy - 3 Volumes
Cameron of Glenroy - Penola Historical Selections (2)
Cameron Country
Cameron’s of Clunes
History and Family Tree of the Camerons of Kilmonvaig
Our Cameron Connections
The Cameron’s of Charam
The Cameron’s of Charam - Family Tree and History - 2nd Edition
Those Confusing Camerons of the Hamilton District
Wagon Wheels thro’ the Wildflowers
The Cartons of Ellenfield 1826-1861
The Chamberlains of Port Fairy
Fordleigh Warts N’ All
An Englishman, Hotelier and The Victoria Hotel 1881-1903
Memories of my Life
“A little bit of Heaven” - Celebration of 100th birthday
Look to this Day 1856-1976
Coustley Family Tree
Spring Hill and the Crick Family
Crow Biography File
A Wimmera Pioneer Family 1850-1930
A History of the Dalton Family in Australia 1869-2007
A Long Way From Tipperary
Deutscher - A Family History 1848-`986
Why did they come?
A Tale of Two Brothers - Charles Dickens and Sons in Australia
Connie’s Story 2014
Dohles of Australia 1858-3008
The Donelan Story
Family of Downes 1858-2003
Of Farmers From The Past
Drummond, Walter
Dyson Family Reunion 1975
From de Grey to Gingin - A History of the Edgar Family - ( In Biographical File )
George and Harriett, Their Life and Times
Following the Falkenbergs, 1847-1997
Glasgow, Goldfields & Grazing
After May Days - Revisited
Murdoch Ferguson and Anne McAskill of Isle of Skye
Jenkins to Fitzpatrick, by Barrie Thompson
Finding My Fathers Family
The French Closet
Gardiner - A Family history in Australia
The Garton Family Profile
The Garton Family Profile - Second Edition
Fredrick Germaine - His Life 1823-1899
George Germaine 1864-1952 - His Police Career - 2 Vols
They came from Leicestershire
Just A Pocket For The Money
Hoofprints in Time - an Autobiography
Transported to a Better Life
My Memoirs by Marion Mclean
Gustav Grambau and his descendants in Australia and New Zealand
Reminiscences of a Pioneer “Western Victoria in the Forties
Charles Greed and Sarah Weaver
Greed Family – Life’s Journey 1808-1998 +updates
The Greenaway’s of Kalkee - A Social History
Gullick Family History 1714-1985 (2 copies)
From Carrickfergus to Koonongwootong
Adventures, Memoirs of Arthur and Daisy Grundy
The Habels of Lake Linlithgow
Johann Friedrich and Anna Rosina Haeusler
Sarah Jane Hale, later Boys and Glassse
A Squatting Saga
Pioneering Days in Western Victoria
The Family of Mathes and Anna Handreck 1858-1993
Harding Family - A Short History and Pedigree
Charles Brown Hardwicke (Tasmania)
History of The Harper Family
Hartwich / Hartwig 1846-2011
The Hassall Family 1798-1998
Hateley Family History
Haustorfer from Natimuk Lake 1851-2011
Tree of Hazel Wood
A Hemingway and Jenkins Family History
My Life - My Meaning, My Pleasure
A Family History 1812-1982
The Henty’s
That Tuft of Grass
Autobiography of Christianne Hiller
Hinchliffe – From Rastrick to Australia
A history written in Stone
On and On the River Runs - 150 Years of Our Holmes in Australia
Family Record of Johann Gottfried Hoffmann 1849-1979
Merrang and The Hood Family
She Lived in Launceston, Isabel Horner 1868-1955
Huf, 1847-1997
The Reverend Robert Morris Hunter, Wesleyan Minister and his descendants
Huttons Hobart
Autobiography of George Iles
The Diary of Eliza Clunes Innes
J stands for Jackson
Reynell Everleigh Johns
The Jones Girls Bounty
A Centenary of Sunshine and Freedom 1881-1991
In Their Footsteps
Andrew Kerr and his Descendants 1841-1986
The King Family History
The Kirkwood Family Tree 1822-1994,1852-2017
The Kirkwood Family Tree 1852-2012
Craiginure - Memories of Alma Williams nee Kirkwood
Koenig 1848-1990
Descendants of Johann Wilhelm Krause 1856-2008
Johann Carl August Kruger and his Descendants 1848-1980
Transported to a Better Life (under Gough)
Our Leahy history
Mariposa
Learmonth / Lermontov Family 2011
Australian Genealogies
The Linke Families in Australia 1838-1980
Descendants of Thomas and Mary
Ian and Dulcie Luhrs of Mooralla
Mackichan - Ancestors and Descendants 1839-1912
See My Memories by Marion MacLean (under Gough)
See under Smith - Helen Macpherson Smith
McLeod’s and Malseeds
Matuschka
The Mayfield Family
The McDonald Family of Carey’s Ranges
The McGennisken Family History 1855-1976
From Croy To Muddy Creek
McIntyre of Merino Downs from 1866 (NZ branch)
Coming in the Big Boats
Hugh Victor McKay - The Young Inventor
The McKechnies of Lornewood
Life on a Mexican Ranche
In Search of Alexander McKillop
Penola - Historical Selections; page 71
Mary McKillop’s Portland Years 1862-1866
The McLeans of Camp Creek
The McLellan Family 1790-1990
McLeod’s and Malseeds
The forgotten Menzel-Veronica Alice Dahlitz by Debra Talbot
The Mibus Family in Australia
The Descendants of William Jackson Millard,1856-1981
Mirtschin
Emigration and Perseverance
William Moodie - A Pioneer of Western Victoria
Remembering - Norman McLeod
McLeod’s of Condah
The Family of James and Elizabeth McNaughton
The McPhees of Argyll
Patrick Melville and Arabella Cullinan - see under Ferguson, Murdoch
With Pride
Michael and Mary Murphy Residents of Hamilton between 1864-1880
From the Blackwater Valley to the Old Mallee
The Cartons of Ellenfield (see under Cartons)
John Muston, Life, Squatter Speculator in Colonial Australia
Nagorcka family history 1857-1977
The Neave family - Nareen, Chetwyn and Harrow
Shaw Neilson in The Wimmera
Noske / Nuske Families in Australia 1847-1997
History of John and Mary Ann Oliver
Jack Payne’s Story
A Peach of a Family – Memoir of 1850-1970
The Romance of Destiny
The Petschel History
A Little Leaven
My Dad Jack
Clonmel to Cootamundra
Looking Back –Part 1-1920-1943
A Brief History of John and Lydia Poynton
Carl Friedrich Presser and August Presser 1816-1979
Old Masters Never Die 1880-1974
The Descendants of Thomas and Hannah Rees 1854-1980
Gathering – descendants of James George and Catherine Reeve of Balmoral
The history and family of Wilhelm & Caroline Reichstein
The Rentsch Family in Australia
SEE Penola Historical Selections page 47; Bookcase 3, under Pace Histories
See under Moodie – Emigration and Perseverance
Johann Wilhelm Rohrlach and Dorothea Galpach 1792-1980
My Yesterdays - An Autobiography
The Curate of the Wannon
‘The Path Back” An autobiography Spanning three Generations
The Life of John Sadleir 1833-1919
Dear Friends Books “US”
Mid Pleasures and Palaces
Johann Samuel Schultz and his Descendants in Australia 1847-1891
A Sharp Vision
The Sharrock Family of Northamptonshire and Victoria
They Dared to Dream
Diary Letters - May, June & July 1927
The Other Simpson
Outward Then - A Lovely Diary
Maggie Campbell’s Diaries 1941-1942
Anzac Cove to Hollywood, by Jeff Brownrigg
The Diaries of Sarah Midgley and Richard Skilbeck 1851-1864
Slorachs From Scotland
Helen Macpherson Smith; Her Life and Lasting Legacy 1874-1951
The Glassy Goanna
Harold Snell
Speirs
Stapleton, Jean - 100 years Memories 1918-2018
Starick Family Record
Steer Family
The History of Stephenson Family
Our Stewart Heritage
From Tollis to Strachan
The Winds that Blew
The History and Family Tree of Alfred Gerald Talbot and his Descendants
Cherry Stones
Andrew and Jacobina Templeton
Tepper Family History
Thomas –A Family History 1790-1996
Doctor Alexander Thomson
Thomson Family of Park Hill Station (2 copies, different editions)
Torney family Reunion 1982
Searching for Patrick & Rose Tully
Turnbull Family in the Western District
The Turner Family History 1841-1983
The Ubergang families in Australia (small book-supplement)
The Ubergang Families in Australia 1848-1985
Recollections of Happy Schooldays
These Are Our Forebears
Joseph and Ester Vaughan (nee Cool)
Surveyor Henry Wade 1810-1854
Hermann Heinrich and Minna Agnes Walkenhorst
Walkenhorst Family
A History of Joseph Bell Wallis
In Walter Biography file
A Light Hearted Look at the Past
Waters Present, Watters Past 1856-2003
History of the Watt Family of “Woodbine” 1878-1987
John’s Branch of the Watt Family
The Whitehead family on Spring Creek
John Whiting's Diary- On The Ship Kent 1853
In Their Footsteps
Alexander Kirkpatrick Wilson and Elizabeth Ellis Donelan
The Descendants of John Wilzon in Australia
The Winters on the Wannon
Marcia’s Memoirs
Woodlands - From Black Swamp to Balmoral
King-Frisby-Woods
Yeoman and Palethorpe Families
The Biographical Dictionary of the Western District of Victoria
Our Scottish and English Forebears, 1700's-1998
Our Irish Ancestors 1780-1998
Warrnambool Pioneer Registers 1839-1900 2 Volumes