Sheedy Macnamara of Glenomera, Clare
March 8, 2018
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Category: Kith n Kin
Saving Country: Killarney Beach coastal environment under commercial racehorse training stress
October 22, 2016
Local community are up in arms about the surge in commercial racehorse training on Killarney’s coast in southwest Victoria and have launched a Petition to take the fight to State level. Warrnambool City Council’s sudden ban on racehorse training on it’s beaches has seen an immediate surge of training at Killarney, which is also part of the Belfast … More Saving Country: Killarney Beach coastal environment under commercial racehorse training stress
White-Williams’: Ivybridge Migrants
August 23, 2016
It’s a startling experience when you discover some five generations of your family have successively worked in occupations centered around one industry. It is one of those ! full-stop moments where you just have to pause and wonder particularly about family commonalities beyond genetics. The surprise is that irrespective of era or gender or even … More White-Williams’: Ivybridge Migrants
Mauled English: the fate of James Brabner
May 31, 2016
With over two decades of experience in researching family history records I really should have seen it coming: ‘Colonial Maul’ as a death cause for my ancestor’s brother instead should have read ‘Colonel Maule’, and it was actually the name of a ship. It had started off as a really exciting day to finally find a reference to James Brabner, the missing … More Mauled English: the fate of James Brabner
A Home Affair: how grandparents meet
May 24, 2016
Grandmother Jean Lovel Booley and grandfather Bob Williams taken in Ballarat in the late 1920’s. picture courtesy of Leigh Williams of Ballarat For nearly two decades I have wondered how a girl from Ouyen in Victoria’s Mallee district married a boy from some 350 kms away in Ballarat, but the answer is so simple I should probably … More A Home Affair: how grandparents meet
A Grave Matter: Booley family plot at Ballarat’s Old Cemetery
May 21, 2016
A grassy single plot within the Ballarat Old Cemetery hides the heartbreak of an immigrant family who fled political unrest in England to seek a new start in colonial Australia, the proposed new land of opportunity, health and wealth. No gravestone exists in this country cemetery in Victoria’s west to count the mounting death toll as Suffolk-born Robert Francis Booley (1829-1875) … More A Grave Matter: Booley family plot at Ballarat’s Old Cemetery
Mystery Ballarat School unravelled as Preston Bell School #4309
May 18, 2016
There is growing accord among the historians at least that our mystery 1938 Ballarat ‘Bell School’ photo is instead the every well known ‘Bell School’ in Melbourne’s northern suburb of Preston. In the absence of any evidence that a Bell School ever operated at Ballarat, I have to agree with one experienced historian who says I have … More Mystery Ballarat School unravelled as Preston Bell School #4309
Ballarat’s? mystery ‘Bell School’
May 15, 2016
UPDATE 18th MAY 2016. This mystery school identified as the BELL SCHOOL #4309 in Oakover Street, Preston (Melbourne, Vic). READ HERE FOR THE UPDATE I can easily find my Dad in this old school photo, but it seems finding the actual Ballarat -based school is another matter entirely! Extensive inquiries and searches have failed to locate the … More Ballarat’s? mystery ‘Bell School’
Way To Go! Art Remembering: Warrnambool Impressions of Tom Humphrey
April 17, 2016
In 1925 a grieving widow donated art works to Victorian galleries in the hope her late husband would not be forgotten, and though that’s pretty much what happened Warrnambool however, has a special way of remembering talented Australian Impressionist Tom Humphrey (1858-1922). Warrnambool’s Art Gallery (WAG) is set to rehang Humphrey’s formative work The Way To School’ … More Way To Go! Art Remembering: Warrnambool Impressions of Tom Humphrey
Lost in the AfterLife
February 28, 2016
With blistered feet and juggling two maps as well as a camera and my handbag I came to an abrupt halt, lost among a sea of higgledy, piggledy-laid graves. The 42 hectare (106 acre) Melbourne General Cemetery is a bewildering place for the uninitiated, particularly for this country girl after a four-hour early morning drive. The lass at … More Lost in the AfterLife
