Oral Family History Recording
Recording by William Henry Geal (1876-1967)
Conversation between William and his nephew, recorded c1963
A transcription of the audio file can be read
here
"A Man of Many Words: The Story of William Barlow"
Book by Kerrie Blyth
Published in 2024
CD-ROM & DVD-ROM
At the 2006 Barlow-Cooley Reunion in Ulverstone I released the first version of a family CD-ROM. The new edition for 2010 didn't quite get done so perhaps next year!
After the 2008 family reunion, cousin the late Tony Hope produced a fabulous DVD containing footage from a variety of family reunions held since 2000.
Books relevant to the Cooley - Barlow Families
Bill Fuller bookseller extraordinaire: some memories by Laurel Clark.
Published by Australian Art Infomration Service, East Malvern, Victoria 1993. ISBN 0646170279
Description: This little 26 page book was compiled by Margaret Morse (nee Fuller) and then Laurel Clark turned it into a publication. It covers the life of William (Bill) Fuller who was born in Hobart on 26th Dec 1885.
Round the Clock : a collection of "bits and pieces" about New Town edited by Fay Ibbott, Ervins Miezitis and Vera Read.
Published in Hobart 1990. ISBN 095943271X
Description: This 52 page book was compiled by a group who wished to preserve the memory of New Town.
"White Coolies" was the first published account of the experiences of an Australian army nurse who was a prisoner of the Japanese. The author was Sister Betty Jeffrey, a nurse with the 2/10th AGH who was evacuated from Singapore. After the sinking of the "Vyner Brooke", Betty was imprisoned on Sumatra. Paperback copies are still available from secondhand book stores in Australia.
Books relevant to the Blyth - Corkery & Towns Families
Patersonia by Iris Meek
Published in 2006
Books relevant to the Towns Families
A History of the Towns Family by Michael D Dunphy
Published by the author of Trevallyn, Launceston in August 2005.
Description: A 197 page history of George Towns who came from Suffolk England and his multitude of descendants.
Web sites
An excellent source of information that helped determine what William Barlow's life must have been like when he was Master of the Bishops Stortford and St Marylebone Workhouses was Peter Higginbottom's website Workhouses a site dedicated to providing information about workhouses in the United Kingdom.