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...
by Jenny Coates | 12 Jul 2023 | Australian Bloggers, Copyright, Family Tree
Sadly, like many other online publishers I am constantly attacked by varmints of one kind or another. Tonight I want to talk about the most insidious type of blood sucking leech – the Ancestry thief.I have just spent several days tracking down dozens of examples...
by Jenny Coates | 13 Mar 2023 | Hotels, North East Victoria, Wangaratta
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...
by Jenny Coates | 19 Sep 2022 | Family Tree, First Nations people, New South Wales
I am lucky enough to have a number of cousins who are just as interested in the family history as I am. It is a wonderful thing to meet these cousins as we know we will always have something to talk about. One such cousin is Garry Moore who has managed to put together...
by Jenny Coates | 10 Jan 2022 | North East Victoria, Wangaratta
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...