In 1905, in a letter to The Sydney Morning Herald, George Michael said that, while carrying out large railway contracts on the Mountains during 1865-6, he had regularly ridden, walked and camped in the area but had never seen the marked tree. Another correspondent, however, Herman Selfe, claimed to remember the tree in the 1860s: "I feel quite certain the three letters, W, B and L, were on the tree when I first saw it."
Reference:
"The Marked Tree: Some Interesting Correspondence", The Mountaineer, 22 September 1905.
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Maybanke Anderson (or Wolstenholme) (1845-1927). Maybanke Anderson was born in England. She was the only daughter of Henry (a plumber) and Bessie Selfe. In 1854, the family migrated to Sydney. Maybanke trained as a teacher while her brothers Norman and Henry were apprenticed as engineers. In 1867, she married Edward Wolstenholme, a timber merchant, having seven children, four who died in infancy. In 1884, her unemployed alcoholic husband deserted her. She started Maybanke College for girls but still found time for voluntary work, amongst other activities. She was the foundation vice-president of the Womanhood Suffrage League of NSW 1891 (later president), and foundation president of the Kindergarten Union, which opened its first free kindergarten in 1896. When the divorce law was extended in 1892, she divorced Wolstenholme for desertion. After selling Maybanke College, she married Professor (Sir) Francis Anderson in 1899. She continued voluntary work, campaigning to allow women the right to be elected to local government.
Reference:
Nairn, B & Serle, G (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol 7, Melbourne University Press, 1979.
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Self/Selfe/Selff/Selph Researchers of Australia.
From: Barbara Pringle - Barbieg@fastrac.net.au
Thank you for starting a web site on Self.
My father was Ronald Alfred Self born in Ontario Canada 15 -5- 1913. Went to sea when he was thirteen. Ronald had relitives in Belville, Ontario. Qualified Able Seaman from 9-7-1929 to 24- 6- 1933, Signed on as Q.M. and A.B. on the 19-1-35 the ship The City of Lyons official # 147353. Coming to Sydney and joined the Royal Australian Navy as a able seaman at the age of 28. Married my mother Joyce Alberta Trinder 23-3- 1938 . Ronald had a brother that also came to Australia .Married and had children. This all the information that I have on my father Ronald Alfred Self.
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Charles Self b c 1827 possibly Hursley, Hampshire UK married Eliza Burton bc 1827 Hursley, Hampshire UK . My grandfather John Self (changed to Selfe on arrival in Australia) always said that there were only three children in his family and he had two sisters Eliza and Charlotte. However I have found records of a William Charles Self born 1851, Jane Self born 1853, Mary Self born 1855, Charlotte Self born 1857 , Harry Self born 1860, Lucy Emily born1862, John born 1866 (my grandfather), Eliza Self born 1869 all with the parents Charles and Eliza and in Hampshire ,so I am a bit stuck and don't know if all these other people were in fact siblings. Merrilyn Davey. (joedavey@iinet.net.au )
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