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...
by Jenny Coates | 23 Feb 2018 | Family Tree, Surnames I am Researching, Wangaratta
One set of my great grandparents were Wangaratta based James Edgar Gordon MOORE, almost always known as ‘Gordy’, and Caroline Anne (nee RITCHIE). When Caroline died tragically in August 1933 after she caught influenza and succumbed to the ensuing...
by Jenny Coates | 7 Jan 2018 | Family Tree, Homes and Properties, Surnames I am Researching, Wangaratta
Some intrepid bloggers are participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 2018 “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks” blogging prompt. Fellow Australian blogger Lilian Magill realised that this might just over commit her so she came up with “12 Ancestors in 12...
by Jenny Coates | 9 Dec 2017 | Family Tree, Hotels, North East Victoria, Wangaratta
I have written previously about the inquest into George Clark’s death in June 1854 and how it allowed me to put together information to come up with the location and name of the Grape Inn which was owned by George’s brother William Henry Clark (WHC)....