Members of the Project who worked on Western Australian Exploration 1846-1860
Ian Abbott is a retired public servant scientist. An ecologist with wide field experience in western and eastern Australia, he has degrees from the University of Sydney, Monash University, and the University of Western Australia. Dr Abbott has expertise in biogeography, island, forest and historical ecology, birds and mammals. Since his first scientific paper in 1970, he has published over 200 papers. He prepared the Appendix on animals and ecology.
Shirley Babis is a retired primary school teacher. She is a member of the Genealogical Society of Western Australia, and a foundation member of the Bayswater Historical Society and the Bassendean Historical Society. Shirley did some of the proofreading for this volume.
Shirley Barnes is a proofreader with the WAEDP. She has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Recreation), and has travelled extensively throughout the goldfields regions and the Pilbara. After more than 30 years’ experience in recreation and community planning, she is now retired. She lived for many years in rural areas, especially the Eastern Goldfields and has always been keenly interested in the human component of communities, including during the early years of settlement and the gold rushes.
Phil Bianchi OAM, is a retired public servant. He is a keen four-wheel driver with a long interest in Western Australian exploration and following up on explorers’ routes. Phil has published ten books on Western Australian history, and been a contributor to a number of other publications. His areas of special interest include the woodlines in WA, transport in the goldfields, and the Canning Stock Route. He is the author of Work Completed, Canning. A Comprehensive History of the Canning Stock Route, published by WAEDP.
Graeme Blake has worked, lived and travelled in many country areas of Western Australia and has developed a keen interest in the history of this state. He is now retired. His first colonial ancestors arrived on HMS Sulphur and became settlers in Western Australia. Members of the convict class who were sent to the colony also form part of his Western Australian background, and he is passionate about the contribution made by the convicts to the advancement of Western Australia.
Calliope Bridge has been doing library searches, document scanning and photo preparation for Hesperian Press for over a decade.
Celene Bridge is a designer. She edits, typesets and designs covers for Hesperian Press.
Peter Bridge OAM, is a series editor of Western Australian Exploration and a founder of the project. He established Hesperian Press in 1969 and has produced over 900 publications, mainly on aspects of Australian history. His own published works include mineralogical research and geological indices for the mining industry, several books and many edited collections and reminiscences.
Lesley Brooker has travelled extensively in the wheatbelt of Western Australia in a technical and research capacity for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. She has authored and co-authored scientific papers on ornithology and habitat reconstruction, and was a co-recipient of the Serventy Medal for scientific publication in 2005. Lesley has a special interest in the geographical history of exploration in south-west Australia and has written five books on the subject.
Nina Cameron completed general and midwifery nursing qualifications in Kalgoorlie and King Edward Memorial Hospital in the early 1960s. While living in Darwin she retrained as a library technician in the early 1990s and completed a Bachelor of Arts in history at Northern Territory University (now Charles Darwin University) where she worked until returning to Perth in 2005.
Gail Dreezens is the project’s typist and made original transcriptions from handwritten field notes, which was a difficult task. An amateur historian, her passion for Australian history has been further developed by travels throughout this country.
Kim Epton is a series editor of Western Australian Exploration and a founder of the project. He is the author of Publishing Your Book with Hesperian Press; C.C. Hunt’s 1864 Koolyanobbine project, his role is now one of marketing, assisting in financing future volumes, and the determination of prescriptive documents for proofreading and editing of the diaries.
Alex George AM, is a retired consultant botanist, editor and indexer, and holds the position of Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University. He worked at the WA Herbarium for 22 years and then spent 12 years in Canberra as the Executive Editor of the Flora of Australia project. He has also served at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, England, as Australian Botanical Liaison Officer. His taxonomic research has focused on the families Proteaceae, Myrtaceae and Gyrostemonaceae, resulting in naming many new species and several new genera. His main research interests are now Australian botanical history and bibliography. Professor George prepared the Appendix on plants and advised on the indexing.
Allan Harris was a proofreader for this volume. He has life-long interest in all aspects of Western Australian History. A keen family history researcher, Allan is a volunteer at the Albany Family History Society where he is the librarian.
Marion Hercock has a PhD from the University of Western Australia. Together with her husband Joe Bryant, she ran Explorer Tours, a remote area tour company. A geographer with an interest in public policy analysis, her publications include works on environmental management and history, resources, geographical thought and 19th century geographers, as well as tourism and recreation. She was the principal editor of Western Australian Exploration 1836–1845 and the Western Australian Expeditions of John Septimus Roe 1829–1849.
Zoe Inman has travelled extensively in Western Australia while working and recreationally. Besides four-wheel drive travel to remote desert areas she has sailed some of the Kimberley coastal areas on the SST Leeuwió II and on private yachts, also including along the greater southern coast, walking the Camino Salvado to New Norcia. Enjoyment of walking includes desert walking with camels and more recently walking the Camino Salvado to New Norcia, as well as reading about local history continues to keep her interested in the WAEDP publications and about local history work.
Michael Lance formed in the Gnowangerup district since 1973 until retirement to the coast. He is an amateur historian. Keen on Australian local history recorder before it is lost, Michael has prepared for publication the memoirs of one of Gnowangerup’s first settlers: A.H. Allardyce (1903). He has been a proofreader with Gnowangerup for over a decade.
Sheryl Milentis is the principal editor of this volume. She is an historical researcher and a principal editor with the WAEDP, and researches most of the biographical and material for the volumes in the WA Exploration series. Her interests are in early criminal history, prostitution and genealogy, with over 30 years research experience. She has contributed to a history of policing in Western Australia, and co-edited The Scarlet Stain, a social history of the early years of Kalgoorlie prostitution. Her forebears arrived on the Marquis of Anglesea, the third ship to the Swan River Colony, in August 1829. Her other colonial ancestors include the King family of Guildford and of Gingin, and the Andrews family of Fremantle. She was a principal editor of Western Australian Exploration 1836–1845.
Ian Murray OAM, is a researcher of history, specialising in Western Australian 1890s gold towns, prospectors and place names. He was a volunteer in the Private Archive Section of the Battye Library. Ian has published several books about the goldfields and place names.
Jeff Murray is a cartographic draftsman with over 40 years of experience in mapping, photogrammetry, surveying and nomenclature. He is a researcher of history specialising in retracing Western Australian stock routes and exploration. Extensively travelled, he has detailed knowledge of Western Australia’s environment and geography.
Rob O’Connor QC assisted with the proofreading for this volume. He is a retired barrister with a keen interest in Western Australian history, Federation history, Commonwealth and State current political affairs, and books on early Australian maritime and land exploration. He is a member of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society and is a past councillor on the Management Committee of the Royal Western Australian Battye Library (Inc), the State (WA) Records Advisory Committee, the Friends of the National Library of Australia, the Friends of the State Library of New South Wales and the Friends of the State Library of South Australia.
Frank Pritchard is a retired Gnowangerup farmer and has also spent time in the Kimberley shearing and cattle mustering. Resident in Kojonup, he gained local support for the publication of J.S. Roe’s exploration diaries.
Jim Quinn was a senior officer of the Education Department of WA. He was active in establishing Edith Cowan University and was its first Pro-Chancellor. A proof reader for the project for nearly a decade, Jim died in 2016.
Mardi Quinn OAM, is a member of the Melville Historical Society, as was her late husband, Jim. After twenty years with the University of the Third Age Writing, Life Stories, Mardi’s memories written in prose and poetry were published in the book Snapshots in 2019. She was a proof reader for this volume.
Glenda Slarke is a proofreader with the WAEDP. She was a Road Dental Clinic nurse, and in the course of her work met and married a farming descendant of an original Lake Grace settler. Keen on Australian history, she loves reading of the explorer expeditions, which she was not taught at school. Until recent retirement to town, she lived on the original historic family farm in an early home.
Angela Teague is a keen historian and a typist for the WAEDP. She was part of the team who compiled twelve books on Western Australian goldfields history, bushmen, prospectors and the Canning Stock Route.
Allan Zweck is a native of Lake Grace. He has worked in many parts of Western Australia and has over 30 years research experience. He has also worked to Lake Grace. He is an enthusiastic family history researcher in naming many new species and documenting information and events which would otherwise have been lost.
Kevin Bentley a retired Shire Clerk, also helped with the preparation of this volume.