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  • ARTHUR Edwards yn holi Mrs Bessie May Jones, Perth, Awstralia Pethe Penllyn Cyfres Newydd 44 (Chwefror 1997) t.3 port.
  • AUHL, Ian. The story of the 'Monster Mine'; the Burra Burra mine and its townships, 1845-1877. Burra: Distict Council of Burra Burra, 1986. Chapter 15 'Welsh smelters' p.163-77. 475p
  • Yr AWSTRALYDD Cymraeg = The Welsh Australian . [Canberra]: Welsh Cambrian Society of the A.C.T., 1989 [16]p
  • BALLARAT EISTEDDFOD. Report of the meetings held in Ballarat in 1885-6, with introductory and historical notes; together with the programme of the Eisteddfod to be held in 1887; ed. by Theos. Williams and J. B. Humffray. Ballarat: James Curtis, 1886 27p
  • BARNES, Jo. Twin town OneWales 1 (Sep 2001) 50-51
  • The BEGINNINGS of copper smelting in Australia. South West Wales Industrial Archaeology Society Bulletin 58 (May 1993) 2-3
  • BENJAMIN, M. Gwyn. A history of the Cambrian (Welsh) Society of South Australia, Incorporated, 1927-1982. Adelaide: the Society, 1982 [15] leaves; typescript
  • BENTON, Fred. New South Sales. Wales on Sunday 17.7.2000 23 port
  • BINNS, Georgina M. Musical aspects of Eisteddfods and the Royal South Street Society Competitions in Ballarat to 1900. B.Mus(Hons) Thesis - University of Melbourne, 1932 74p.
  • BLACKSTONE-IPSWICH Cambrian Choir: a centenary history 1886- 1986. Blackstone: Blackstone-Ipswich Cambrian Choir, [1988] 32p
  • BUCHANAN, Robyn. Blackstone. Ipswich, Qld.:Ipswich City Council, 1995. [30]p (Ipswich Heritage Trail, 10)
  • CARDELL, Kerry, Cliff Cumming, Peter Griffiths, Bill Jones. Welsh identity on the Victorian goldfields in the nineteenth century. In A world turned upside down: cultural change on Australia's goldfields, 1851-2001 / edited by Kerry Cardell & Cliff Cumming. Lennox Crossing, Aus.: Australian National University, Humanities Reseach Centre, [2003?] p.25-50
  • CARSON, Roger. Dawnswyr Cymreig Melbourne. Dawns 1993/94 p.32-34
  • A CENTURY of eisteddfod tradition in Queensland. In Bi-Steddfod 88 Souvenir programme. Mackay, 1988 8-10
  • DAVIES, Delyth Ann. Ble ma'n nhw nawr? Y Gambo 159 (Ionawr 1999) 4-5
  • DAVIES, John Norman. Y gadair o ben draw'r byd. Golwg 15 (42) 3.7.2003 20-21
  • DAVIES, Rhiannon, 1907- . Wales, the beloved country : where there's a will, there's a way Chifley, A.C.T. : Chifley Pub., 1999. vii, 310p. : ill.,ports. Autobiography.
  • EAMES, Aled. The Australia connection=Awstralia, y cyfandir pell. Gwynedd Archives &; Museums Service, 1988 tete-beche 23,13
  • The EARLY history of "Brecon" ... and links with Wales, Typescript. 9p.
  • Bryn Jones' family from Brecon, Wales moved to near Keith, South Australia.
  • EVANS, Geraint. Welsh-language publishing in late nineteenth-century Victoria. Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin Vol.7 no.2 Second Quarter 1993, 79-84.
  • FAULL, Jim. South Australia's early mining heritage: the ethnic contribution. Heritage Australia 3 (Summer 1984), 70-73
  • FILMER-DAVIES, Cath. The Blackstone Welsh Cambria 5 3 (Winter 2002/3) 38-43 ports.
  • FILMER-DAVIES, Cath. Eisteddfod: a Welsh tradition in Australia. Brisbane: Seren Press, 2001 196pp.
  • FYALL, Andrew. New South Wales: the Welsh connection? About Wales Magazine Spring 1992 p.28-31.
  • The GEELONG Welsh: a record of some 19th century families ed. by Elaine Kranjc. Geelong, Vic: The Geelong Family History Group Inc., [1995] [6], 13
  • GREINER, Alyson L. Anglo-Celtic Australia.\ Colonial immigration and cultural regionalism. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Center for American Places US, 2002. 190pp.
  • GRUFFUDD, Ceris. A list of books and manuscripts relating to Wales in Australian Libraries (with the exception of Tasmania) National Library of Wales, 1982. NLW ex 1316.
  • HALDANE-STEVENSON, Patrick. The Welsh in Australia. Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 1988 177-8
  • HAWKES, George William Thomas, the Liverpool ship owner and the Holyhead wrecked on Point Lonsdale, Port Philip Heads 1890 The Dog watch 52 (1995) 50-55
  • HAWKES, George 'The Cardigan Castle': the story of a clipper ship, 1870-1907 Cymru a'r mor 16 (1994) p.62-79
  • HAWKES, George. Robert and John Evans of Liverpool, shipbuilders: their contribution to the era of iron and steel sailing ships. Cymru a'r Môr 18 (1996) 40-53.
  • HICKEY, Sally. The Welsh/Cymri of Stanford Merthyr on the South Maitland Coalfields. Australian Folklore 8 (1993) 77-83.
  • HUGHES, A. F. Welsh. In : JUPP, James. The Australian People : an encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins :2nd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001. p.737-743
  • HUGHES, A. Festin. Welsh. In The Australian people: an encyclopaedia of the nation, its people and their origins. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1988 840-5 0207154279
  • HUGHES, Arthur Festin. Welsh migrants in Australia: language maintenance and cultural transmission Ph.D. Thesis Department of Education, University of Adelaide, 1994. 2v. (Microfiche copy in NLW - NLW fiche 13).
  • JAMES, Brenda. Cwrdd â darllenwyr Glo Mân yn Sydney, Awstralia. Glo-mân Hydref 1991 12-13
  • JENKINS, David. Cardigan, Liverpool and Sydney: the career of Captain Lewis Davies, 1833-1919 Cymru a'r môr 20 (1999) 16-36
  • JENKINS, Evan D. & Arthur J. Jenkins. The golden chain: a history of Sebastopol with special reference to gold and mining. Sebastopol: Arthur J. Jenkins, 1980 [8], 136 0959496408
  • JOHNSTON, W. Ross. Acquiring emigrants: the information chain in Wales 1860s-70s Proceedings of the University of Queensland History Research Group vol 2 (1992?) -undated 3-11
  • JOHNSTON, W. Ross. The selling of Queensland Henry Jordan and Welsh emigration. Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland XIV9 (1991) 379-392.
  • JOHNSTON, W. Ross. The Welsh diaspora: emigrating around the world in the late nineteenth century. Llafur 6 2 (1993) 50-74
  • JOHNSTON, W. Ross. The Welsh in Queensland. In BRISBANE: the ethnic presence since the 1850's: ed by Rod Fisher & Barry Shaw. Brisbane History Group, 1993 (Brisbane History Group Papers, 12) 7-25.
  • JONES, Bill. Cousin Dai and Cousin Dilys? South Australia's nineteenth century Welsh heritage. Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia 27 (1999) 28-43
  • JONES, Bill. Cymry 'Gwlad yr Aur': ymfudwyr Cymreig yn Ballarat, Awstralia, yn ail hanner y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Llafur 8 (2) (2001) 41-61
  • JONES, Bill. From a country called Wales - the Welsh in Australia symposium Australian Folklore 13 (1998) 222-226
  • JONES, Bill. Studying the Welsh Australians The Welsh Australian: yr Awstralwr Cymreig (1997) 2-6
  • JONES, Bill. Welsh identities in Ballarat, Australia, during the late nineteenth century The Welsh History Review 20 (2) (December 2000) 283-307
  • JONES, Bill. Welsh identities in Colonial Ballarat. In Scatterlings of empire. /[edited by] Wilfred [ie Wilfrid] Prest. University of Queensland Press, 2001 (Issue of Journal of Australian studies no 68 2001) 34-43
  • JONES, D A. Iechyd da Ehedydd. Y Lloffwr Rhagfyr 2005 270 t.2 port.
  • JONES, E. Vernon. Australia's Llandeilo flag. Carmarthenshire Historian XVII (1980) 84 ill
  • JONES, E. Vernon. More about the other Llandilo. Carmarthenshire Historian XVI (1979) 69-70
  • JONES, Egryn. Atgofion saith mlynedd a deugain yn Awstralia Y Cymro 26.12.1928 8-9
  • LANGFIELD, Michele. Filching the Argentine colonists: the encouragement of Patagonians to the Northern Territory in the early twentieth century, Journal of Northern Territory History 13 (2002) 33-4
  • LANGFIELD, Michele. The Organ in the South: Preserving a Welsh Patagonian Heritage in Australia. In W.S. Logan, C. Long & J. Martin (eds), 3rd International Seminar Forum UNESCO: University and Heritage Proceedings Melbourne: Deakin University 1999 312-316.
  • LANGFIELD, Michele. Welsh Patagonian migrants in Australia The Welsh Australian: yr Awstralwr Cymreig ( 1997) 7-14
  • LEITNER, Gerhard. Australia's many voices : ethnic Englishes, indigenous and migrant languages : policy and education :Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, c2004. xiv, 341 p
  • LLOYD, Jenkin. Adgof uwch anghof : marwolaeth fy mrawd, John Lloyd, Timber Merchant, Aberystwyth / cyfansoddwyd y llinellau hyn yn Adelaide, Awstralia gan Jenkin Lloyd. Bethesda : [Jenkin Lloyd], 1900.
  • LLOYD, Lewis. The Australian adventure of Evan Roberts, Junior, of Bryn-y-gath, Trawsfynydd Cylchgrawn Hanes a Chofnodion Sir Feirionydd XIII (I) (1998) 43-52
  • LLOYD, Lewis. The Australian Connection: four Welsh shipping losses, 1890-1910 Cymru a'r Môr 18 (1996) 54-61.
  • LLOYD, Lewis Australians from Wales.Gwynedd Archives, 1988 282p, map 0901337471
  • LLOYD, Lewis. Destination Australia. Cymru a'r Môr 5 (1980) 146-50
  • LLOYD, Lewis. Merioneth and Australia - some historical connections. Journal of the Merioneth Historical and Record Society X iv (1989) 306-24
  • LLOYD, Lewis. Passages to Australia: Welsh emigrants, master mariners and vessels. Cymru a'r Môr 7 (1983) 22-45
  • LLOYD, Lewis. A report on my recent researches in Australia. Cymru a'r Môr 12 (1989) 7-26
  • LLOYD, Lewis. Report on my recent visit to Australia (August 9-October 8 1994) Cymru a'r Môr 17 (1995) 151-157. See also HAWKES, George. Correspondence Cymru a'r Môr 18 (1996) 104-109.
  • LOWELL, E. John. A tale of two sisters Cymru a'r Môr 18 (1996) 68-72.
  • LUCAS, David. From Gwent to the land of gold Gwent Local History 80 (Spring 1996) 41-44
  • LUCAS, David. The Welsh, Irish, Scots and English in Australia. Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs, 1987 X, 109p maps 1862529752. Bibliography p.76-92
  • MARTIN, Gillian & Ged Martin. Waltzing Britannia: a guide to Britain for Australians. Hale & Iremonger, 1989 0868060798. Wales p.206-15
  • MATTHEWS, Rachel. From Abertawe to Swansea.The Western Mail Magazine 10.12.2005 p.12-13
  • MEESE, Ceridwen Eluned 19th century master mariners of Bagillt. Bagillt History Club, 1993 36p
  • PARRI, Ian & Jill Tunstall. How the Welsh blazed a trail to their new life Down Under. Daily Post 10.12.2001 p.9
  • PAYTON, Philip. Re-inventing Celtic Australia: notions of Celtic identity from the colonial period to the era of multi-culturalism. Australian Studies 12(2) (Winter 1997) 78-90
  • PAYTON, Philip. Re-inventing Celtic Australia. New directions in Celtic Studies University of Exeter Press, 2000 108-125
  • PRICE, Charles. The Cornish of Australia: an invisible minority with distinctive surnames. In Arrivals, departures, achievements: essays in honour of James Jupp; ed., by Andrea McRobbie. Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, Australian National University, 1992 38-42
  • REECE, Bob. The Welsh in Australian historical writing. Australian Studies 4 (Dec 1990) 88-104. Another version of this paper appears in The historical and cultural connections and parallels between Wales and Australia (Edwin Mellen Press, 1991) 12-43.
  • REES, Derrick, 1924- By then I was thirteen / Derrick (Taffy) Rees. Wahroonga, N.S.W. : Lexington Avenue, c1999. 335p.
  • RHYS, Glyn Llandeilo (Carmarthenshire) and Llandilo (New South Wales). Yr Enfys Spring 2001 8-9
  • ROBERTS, G. Côr plant Cymry Awstralia [Charters Towers, Queensland] Cymru'r Plant X (1901) 195-6, 252 port.
  • ROBERTS, Huw Lewis. Oes na le i hogyn fynd yn llongwr? Cymru a'r Môr 17 (1995) 90-103
  • ROBERTS, R. Fred. Welsh settlement at Moora, Western Australia Abergele Field Club & Historical Society Review 19 (2000) 9-14
  • ROBERTS, R. Fred. Welsh settlement at Moora, Western Australia Hel Achau 57 (Awst/August 1998) 30-33
  • ROBINSON, F. & H. L. Skellern. Queensland eisteddfau (sic) In Queensland Eisteddfod Souvenir Programme. Brisbane, 1939 101-13
  • STIEGLITZ, Karl von. Pioneers of the East Coast from 1642 Swansea-Bicheno. Launceston, Tas.: K von Stieglitz, 1978, 107p Index.
  • STUART, Julia. Planet Swansea South Wales Evening Post, 1997. Articles on 26 Swanseas throughout the world including the ones in NSW and Tasmania
  • Th. N. Y Cymry yn Greta, NSW Yr Ymwelydd 18 (Mai 1875) 189-190.
  • THOMAS, Dafydd Whiteside. Cymry oddi cartref. Eco'r Wyddfa 220 (Chwefror 1996) t.4-5.
  • THOMAS, Dafydd Whiteside. O'r Ceunant i Charters Towers Eco'r Wyddfa 241 (Nadolig 1997) t.7
  • TYLER, Robert Llewellyn. '"A Handful Of Interesting and Exemplary People From A Country Called Wales". Identity and Culture Maintenance: The Welsh in Ballarat and Sebastopol In The Second Half Of The Nineteenth Century'. PhD.University of Melbourne, 2000.
  • WALKER, Lesley. From old Wales to New South Wales - locating Welsh immigrants in Colonial records 1875 - 1885. MA Thesis Centre for Celtic Studies Sydney University 1995. NLW ex 1762
  • WALKER, Lesley. The 'for Wales see England' syndrome: locating Welsh immigrants in Colonial records 1870-1879 Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 812 (Dec 1995) p.185-193.
  • WALKER, Lesley. In search of the copper smelters. Glamorgan Family History Journal 45 (March 1997) 6-8
  • WALKER, Lesley 'Two jobs for every man': the emigration decision from South Wales to New South Wales, 1850-1900 Australian Studies 13 (2) 99-118
  • WALTERS, Huw. Awstralia: gwlad llawn o drysorau. Yn Cynnwrf canrif: agweddau ar ddiwylliant gwerin. Cyhoeddiadau Barddas, 2004. 275-296
  • WALTERS, Huw Cerddi ymddiddan ynghylch ymfudo i Awstralia Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru XXXI (4) Gaeaf 2000 381-400
  • The Welsh Australian
  • A WELSH copper-smelting works in Australia. South West Wales Industrial Archaeology Society Bulletin 51 (May 1990) 7-8
  • A WELSH copper-smelting works in Australia. South West Wales Industrial Archaeology Society Bulletin 51 (May 1990) 7-8
  • WILLIAMS, Myfi. Cymry Awstralia. Llandybïe: Christopher Davies, 1983 178p 0715406140
  • WILLIAMS, Peter J. An outline history of Abermain Eisteddfod. The author, 1993 [ca.100p] Typescript copies available in City Library, Vincent Street, Cessnock, NSW 2325 and Newcastle Public Library, Local History Section, Laman Street, Newcastle, NSW 2300.
  • WILLIAMS, Robert Report on the Northern Territory of Australia by Robert Williams, of Wellington, N.Z., based upon one month's inspection of the Country, during September 1912, on behalf of the Welsh settlers of Patagonia together with extracts from various Official Reports as indicated Commonwealth of Australia, [1913]

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