CD-ROM
At the recent Barlow-Cooley Reunion in Ulverstone I released the first version of a family CD-ROM. It is a multi-media product, containing family trees, photos, charts and sound files. It sells for $20.00 including postage and packaging.
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.
Relevant to the Blyth - Corkery & Towns Families
Patersonia by Iris Meek
Published in 2006
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 Higginbottoms website Workhouses a site dedicated to providing information about workhouses in the United Kingdom.