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 | 19 Jul 2019 | Ada Cambridge, Wangaratta
As we saw in Part 6 and 7 of this study, life in Wangaratta agreed very well with Ada Cambridge. However in her memoir she hinted at a disappointment that wounded deeply, but which she could not elaborate on. ... we still found nothing to disagree with us - only one...
by Rod Martin | 11 Jul 2019 | North East Victoria, Wangaratta, World War One
By guest blogger Rod Martin A question about the 1909 photograph shown above led to an unlikely coincidence as a blogger attempted to discover the real story behind it. The Albury Library and the State Library of New South Wales had both captioned it as being a...
by Jenny Coates | 28 Jun 2019 | Ada Cambridge, North East Victoria, Wangaratta
After Ada Cambridge wrote about the people who became her closest friends during her short residence in Wangaratta, she took to observing the community and comparing it to life in England. And as for the cottage people - the marked thing about them was that they were...
by Jenny Coates | 14 Jun 2019 | Ada Cambridge, North East Victoria, Wangaratta
As we saw in Part 5 of this series, Ada Cambridge remarked on the egalitarian nature of early 1870s Wangaratta society, and mentioned a few friends who were from the "tradesfolk" class. After recalling the wife of a stationer - identified as Anne Bickerton (nee...
by Jenny Coates | 31 May 2019 | Ada Cambridge, Wangaratta
Ada Cambridge, as we have seen in previous posts in this series, enjoyed an active social life. There were bazaars and church teas and such things - quite as exciting as the private functions - at which our circle of friends and acquaintances was augmented by the...