George Oliver Jackel
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...
George Clark and his unfortunate end
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)....
William Henry Clark and his hotels – a new chapter
It’s not often that one is thankful that a person died in such gruesome circumstances that an inquest was held. This is one of those exceptions and I apologise to my four times great uncle George Clark for the happy excitement his inquest generated. George died...
Ancestral Places Geneameme
A few weeks ago Alona Tester asked bloggers to join in her Ancestral Places Geneameme. I had only recently published a post on the names and associated places I was researching and didn’t want to just regurgitate that list in a revised format. Instead I set...
Who Was … Eliza Armstrong?
In history there are many souls assigned to oblivion, due mainly to circumstances at their death, and a lack of connecting information with their living past. One such person is Eliza Armstrong. Eliza was a partner to George Clark (1818-1854) who was a brother of my...
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