Portrait of an Ancestor
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...Beyond the Headstone – the Dale infants
This edition of Beyond the Headstone features the Dale family. The headstone is important as a rare surviving example from this period, but also because it signals quite clearly that the Tone Rd cemetery was in use in early to mid 1854. It is fairly certain that the...
The joy of postcards
Sending postcards in the early decades of the twentieth century was a past time with many uses. The sender could let someone know what train they would be arriving on, how their trip to Aunt Myrtle was going, or send good wishes on a special occasion. Sometimes...
Faking it with FindaGrave
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...Votes For Women!
Before women in Victoria gained the right to vote in Commonwealth elections in 1902, there were few ways that they could exercise any democratic right. They were yet to be granted the same rights as men in state elections despite a huge push in 1891 with the...
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