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So I thought it could be a good idea to share what I have been up to - and most importantly record some of my genealogy research, because sometimes my brain is so full it is nearly bursting and I just cant remember where I wrote that very important new fact or discovery down. Hopefully, now I will know.

Showing posts with label Looking back. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Looking back. Show all posts

Sunday, 27 September 2026

Emma Louisa Bartlett

Emma was the third daughter in her family. Both of her parents were born in New Zealand, but her grandparents had all emigrated with their y...

George Timms

George was the youngest in his family. His mother had died when he was six months old. He had five older sisters and an older brother. In ...

Saturday, 26 September 2026

Geoffrey (Jeffory) Denniss

Geoffrey was the youngest in his family. He had four elder sisters and an elder brother. They were the second generation in his family to ha...

Wednesday, 23 September 2026

Laura Ellen Kelsey

Laura was forty-eight in 1926. For the last ten years she had been an inmate at the Warwick County Lunatic Asylum in Hatton, Warwickshire. L...

Thomas Watson Hogg

Thomas was born at Traquhair, Peebleshire, Scotland in the summer of 1879. During the 1890s his family had moved from the Scottish Lowlands ...

Tuesday, 22 September 2026

Ethel Elsie Gibson

Ethel was forty-six in 1926. She was the middle child of seven born in Kiama, New South Wales. Both of her parents were of Irish descent. Sh...

Saturday, 19 September 2026

Edith Lilian Vose

Edith was the first child in her family born in New Zealand in 1881, two years after their arrival from England. She was the fifth child and...

Mary Milne Gerrard

In 1926 Mary was forty-four years old; a mother, wife, mother-in-law and soon would become a grandmother. Her eldest son had married in Augu...

Thursday, 17 September 2026

Joseph Alexander Becker

Joseph was born in May 1887 in Rob Roy near Queanbeyan and Michelago, New South Wales. He was the second child and second son, but first sur...

Susan Bissell Millar

Susan was born in Bulli, New South Wales in June 1888, although at her marriage she gave her birthplace as Austinmer. Her father was a miner...

Violet Ruth Cooper

Violet was born in 1896 in Manakau, Horowhenua. She was the second child and second daughter in her family. Her father was a builder/carpent...

Wednesday, 16 September 2026

Thomas Walter Davys

Thomas was born April 1900 in Taupiri, a small town on the Waikato River where his father ran a sawmill on the banks of the Mangawhare Strea...

Monday, 14 September 2026

Robert Hogg

Robert was born in Lemington, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland in 1905. He was the second, but eldest surviving child of his parent’s mar...

Albert Victor Fuller

Albert (Bert) was born in the spring of 1906 in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was the third child and second son in his family. In 1926 he...

Thursday, 10 September 2026

Elsie Lilian Timms

Elsie was born in the northern hemisphere summer of 1907. She was the second child and second daughter in her family. At the time of her bir...

Mavis Harriett Myrtle Denniss

Mavis was born in mid 1908 in Wollongong, New South Wales. She was the fourth child and fourth daughter in her family, although her eldest s...

Wednesday, 9 September 2026

What was happening in your family 100 years ago?

I happened across this thought reading a post/article in Substack. Substack is a platform where I have been lurking but have not completely ...

Sunday, 31 December 2017

This Year in Sunsets

In month order - JFMAMJJASOND - you know it HAPPY NEW YEAR, MAY 2018 BRING A WORLD OF P...

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