by Jenny Coates | 10 Jan 2022 | North East Victoria, Wangaratta
Recently I was alerted to the fact that fellow blogger Janelle Collins had photographed all the extant headstones at Boorhaman cemetery north of Wangaratta.* Janelle’s rellies were John King and Mary Anglim (sometimes Anglam), who came from the same area of...
by Jenny Coates | 16 Dec 2021 | First Nations people, Homes and Properties, Wangaratta
I recently stumbled upon a photo of the beautiful home below. This image was scanned by the State Library of Victoria but the cataloguers had not identified the house, the title being merely “House brick with porch and gabled roof, Wangaratta.” I asked the...
by Jenny Coates | 11 Dec 2021 | Dubious Old Dudes, Melbourne, Trove Tuesday
On the 30th November I had the pleasure of joining historian Robyn Annear on a guided walk around the north-western corner of Hoddle’s grid in Melbourne as part of the soft launch of her new book of seven walking tours titled “Adrift in Melbourne”....
by Jenny Coates | 24 Oct 2021 | Ada Cambridge, Wangaratta
Continuing on a study of the personal memoir of novelist Ada Cambridge titled Thirty Years in Australia we come to the young couple’s housing in Wangaratta. When Ada Cambridge and her husband George Cross arrived in Wangaratta they had been married for several...
by Jenny Coates | 29 Jun 2020 | Surnames I am Researching, Wangaratta
No one really knows how William Moore died. In the dust, noise and confusion that erupted around the movement of a mob of horses from the Wangaratta Sale Yards through Ovens Street to the railway station, no one actually saw the event that caused his death. On that...