by Jenny Coates | 12 Mar 2024 | Family Tree, North East Victoria, Surnames I am Researching, Wangaratta, Wangaratta cemetery
The only known portrait of my great great grandfather William Moore is well known to other descendants. For over 30 years I’ve had a black and white copy of the image on my wall. My cousin owns a similar portrait in a 1920s/1930s oval glass frame that is likely...
by Jenny Coates | 12 Jul 2023 | Australian Bloggers, Copyright, Family Tree
Sadly, like many other online publishers I am constantly attacked by varmints of one kind or another. Tonight I want to talk about the most insidious type of blood sucking leech – the Ancestry thief.I have just spent several days tracking down dozens of examples...
by Jenny Coates | 19 Sep 2022 | Family Tree, First Nations people, New South Wales
I am lucky enough to have a number of cousins who are just as interested in the family history as I am. It is a wonderful thing to meet these cousins as we know we will always have something to talk about. One such cousin is Garry Moore who has managed to put together...
by Jenny Coates | 3 Jan 2020 | Family Tree, North East Victoria, Surnames I am Researching, Wangaratta
On the 3rd January 1826, Jonathan Harris (alias Alcorn) arrived in Sydney Cove as a convict aboard the Marquis of Hastings. Lucky to have survived the penal system involving a stay on the hulks and the long sea voyage, Harris had actually used up not two, but three of...
by Jenny Coates | 17 May 2019 | Ada Cambridge, Family Tree, North East Victoria, Surnames I am Researching, Wangaratta
After doctors, bankers came next in social importance in Wangaratta according to Ada Cambridge’s memoir Thirty Years in Australia. She described them as “the backbone of country society”, remarking how important it was that “they should be...
by Jenny Coates | 3 Aug 2018 | Family Tree, Wangaratta
Trying to tease out the lives of women is often difficult. In generations past married women were seen as an extension of their husbands. Single women were seen as extensions of their father, or recognised only if their charitable work was extensive, or worse still...