Waltzing Matilda or recordings of bush ballads include anything to suggest it preceded Paterson. Meanwhile, handwritten manuscripts from the time the song originated indicate the song's origins with Paterson and Christina Macpherson, as do their own recollections and other pieces of evidence. There has been speculation about the relationship "Waltzing Matilda" bears to an English song, "The Bold Fusilier" (also known as "Marching through Rochester", referring to Rochester in Kent and the Duke of Marlborough), a song sung to the same tune and dated by some back to the 18th century but first printed in 1900. There is, however, no documentary proof
Peninsula Banjo Band include Auxiliary members as full members of the PBB with participation responsibilities and voting rights. In 1996 the late Gene Sandberg invited Christina Gill, Jeannette Oatman, and the late Vera Adams, for a luncheon at Rickeys Hyatt House in Palo Alto. He asked if they would be willing to start an auxiliary for the band. The then-president of the band, Floyd Oatman, encouraged them to start one since it would be a great help to the band. The first Auxiliary contribution was to sell tickets at the 1996 Banjo Jubilee. The Auxiliary was then officially recognized in 1997 at the