by Jenny Coates | 19 Mar 2024 | Street names, Wangaratta
Medowra Ave is named after the home of David Langlands and his wife Alice Maud (nee Goodwin). Situated on a 10 acre block with a frontage to Swan St, the house was originally named ‘Weirside’ by George Phillipson who died there in 1913. David Langlands was...
by Jenny Coates | 12 Mar 2024 | Wangaratta
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 | 5 Mar 2024 | North East Victoria, Wangaratta
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...
by Jenny Coates | 22 Dec 2023 | Wangaratta
The Beyond the Headstones series of posts was inspired after having spent a bit of time in Wangaratta cemetery, visiting loved ones, attending funerals or wandering around taking photos. In some sections I have been known to point at a headstone and exclaim “I...
by Jenny Coates | 16 Nov 2023 | Wangaratta
Followers may have discerned that I enjoy exploring the stories of nutters. They provide the rabbit warrens that can steal away hours while you try to make sense of the crazy. Today’s offering is not from my family tree, or even from Wangaratta. One of his...
by Jenny Coates | 25 Sep 2023 | Wangaratta
I often talk about how wonderful the CD of Wangaratta Cemetery records produced by the Wangaratta Family History Group is.Now there is a new resource available from our friends at Benalla.https://www.benallacemetery.com/homeThis clear and easy to...