It’s funny the things you overlook when you first read a document. Or even on the second or third time. I was in the middle of assignment work for my course with the IHGS, focusing on military records, and so had been going over what records and notes I had for my great grandfather, Alexander…
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Wishing You A very Happy & Prosperous New Year With love & best wishes from all at “Bellevue” This was taken when Baby was 6 months old. Dec 27th 1906 Wordless Wednesday is an ongoing series at GeneaBloggers.
Early last year I began a series of posts on the Brosnahan family. Well, “one” of the Brosnahan families, as there were a few that settled in South Canterbury, New Zealand, around the same time. My great great grandmother, Margaret Brosnahan, emigrated to New Zealand with her older brother John in 1862, travelling aboard the…
Following on from yesterday’s post, I decided to have a look through some family photos, to see if I could find any likenesses to the three women in the photo. I feel fairly sure that the woman on the left, Mystery Woman number 1, is my great grandmother, Margaret O’Rourke. Here’s a comparison between yesterday’s…
This is one of the photographs I had dated at WDYTYA? Live by Maureen Taylor, so now I have a date of around the early 1910s. However, that’s about all I know – I’m not even sure if these three are, in fact, sisters. I’m wondering if the woman on the left could be my…
How apt that today I am posting my great grandfather’s obituary – on the 55th anniversary of his death.1 OBITUARY MR. A. WRIGHT A prominent figure in musical and friendly-society circles for many years, Mr Alexander Wright died yesterday at Gisborne and is to be interred at the Taruheru cemetery tomorrow, following a service to…
Last week I posted this photograph of my great grandparents, Elsie Nunns and Alexander Wright. Except when I sent the photo to my mother to see if she knew who the baby was, she replied saying “that’s definitely not Elsie in the photo”. (Umm, Mum, I’ve just posted it on my blog and said it’s…
You may remember my disappearing Florey family from earlier posts, and my attempt to track them down. The Floreys were last seen living in Wateringbury at the time of the 1841 census, but I hadn’t been able to find any of them until Henry Richard Florey, my great great grandfather, turns up in 1871 living…
As mentioned in an earlier post, I lost track of my Florey household from the 1841 census until Henry Richard Florey turns up with wife and kid in 1871. Where did the others go? And where was Henry during those 30 years? Since I’ve found what I think is Jane Florey’s baptism, I’m starting with…