tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20698891761312457442024-02-19T22:44:12.596+11:00Jax TraxJackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.comBlogger233125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-48696821404177690012016-06-07T13:08:00.000+10:002016-06-07T13:08:12.115+10:00We found Ballantarsin!<div class="MsoNormal">
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historical societies in Mortlake and Terang and although not finding <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ballantarsin</i>, they did find a ‘new’
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">They went to the biggest town in the area, Warrnambool Historical Society and they had old parish plans showing subdivision of “Long’s Estate” for closer settlement. They could locate some roads and lanes on these and some fire maps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So off Mum and Dad went, driving all around the district in freezing gale force winds – you have to admire their determination!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Finding nothing, they gave up and started for home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Still keeping their eyes open, they found something but it was on the wrong side of the road. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">They met the owners of the property who were very excited to learn some of the history of part of their very large dairy farm. They had never heard of it being called <i>Ballantarsin</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The dairy farmers were using the house for a share farmer and it was empty until this day – the new tenants turned up just as Mum and Dad were finishing their photos inside and out – amazing timing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The property is now called <i>Crieve Hill</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Ballantarsin</i> was owned by mum’s grandparents from 1918 to 1922. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The map above has an asterisk on the ‘W Graham block’ and this is probably the milking shed. The house is closer to the numbers above and right of this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So now Mum and Dad are busy dating some old photos, and noticing how grand the garden and house had been. The old stone fence that is still on the property today can be seen in the background of some of our photos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Dad’s put some of the old photos together to take to the current owners who are very keen to have them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Of course this leads to more research:<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The closer settlement subdivision of Long’s Estate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Locate the Long’s previous property <i>Warrawong</i> at Glenormiston North. Edward and Sarah Long had sold this property to O’Keefes who had taken possession on 1 Oct 1918. The Longs sold <i>Ballantarsin</i> through McDonald Bros Mortlake on 15 Aug 1922 and took possession of their next property <a href="http://jackievanbergen.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/trove-tuesday-what-shame-they-sold-it.html" target="_blank"><i>Watch Hill</i> </a>on 18 May 1922.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Many of the snippets of information, and dates of purchases and sales have been gleaned from mum’s aunt’s (our Auntie Jean) diaries and newspaper clippings. In amongst the day to day activities are little snippets of gold, it just takes someone with the time and patience to read through them all – lucky Mum kept them!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The author of the diaries, Auntie Jean (Long) driving my Nanna<br />in the family Adler at Ballantarsin</td></tr>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-64735707475994017212016-05-21T14:29:00.001+10:002016-05-21T14:29:50.170+10:00A very surprising death notice<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I photographed it and texted it off to my
brothers, sure of a couple of interesting responses:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">One brother: "She should have told us!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The other: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">"Not sure if I can take time off for
the funeral as I’m about to go on leave. Any chance we can delay for a few more
years?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mum went into her favourite coffee shop to a
greeting of </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“Oh! I’m so glad you’re not dead!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The age (and family names) does give it away but
if you were only skimming headlines, you could easily draw the wrong
conclusion.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Of course the next question is:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Are they related?</span></div>
Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-32924238501771343102016-04-21T14:48:00.001+10:002016-04-22T17:36:14.608+10:00Where is Ballentarsen (Victoria)?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I’m spending a week at my parents and Mum
raised one of her ‘mysteries’: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“<i>I wish I knew where Ballentarsen is / was</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK1hHKKLOkKTNlVfhv2Hd4zWMNmaY5WM5uSkxNLGttRAh08ltvRQRc9IA2KviaJe6V_6nM9wxmZJA5pgcrwd_BDVD-ee4fc6_LGDkaRi010p1R8rtAiNhaB7bmZRWTCLdgj7Ms-GCbOorB/s1600/IMG_2175.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK1hHKKLOkKTNlVfhv2Hd4zWMNmaY5WM5uSkxNLGttRAh08ltvRQRc9IA2KviaJe6V_6nM9wxmZJA5pgcrwd_BDVD-ee4fc6_LGDkaRi010p1R8rtAiNhaB7bmZRWTCLdgj7Ms-GCbOorB/s320/IMG_2175.jpg" width="310" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><i>Ballentarsen / Ballantarsin / Ballentarsin</i> was the name of one
of the properties where her mother (Mavis Garrett nee Long) and grandparents (Edward Long and Sarah nee Stonehouse) lived. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(We have different spellings on various
documents and photographs.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It was in The Sisters / Ellerslie / Ballengiech
area of the Western District of Victoria (see map below).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Sometime in the 1970s, Mum’s sister drove her
mother, aunt and uncle to the house but now doesn’t remember exactly where it
was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">She took some photos (included).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The house looks like it’s made of solid stone,
so could be still there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Our timeline seems to show that they lived
there between 1918 and 1922.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">They sold their property at Glenormiston <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Warrawong</i> to O’Keefes with possession
date of 1 Oct 1918.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">They sold <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ballentarsen</i>
through McDonald Bros, Mortlake on 15 Aug 1922.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The purchase of their next home <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Watch Hill</i> in Beeac was on 18 May 1922.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I’ve written about the beautiful <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Watch Hill</i> a couple of times previously,
including <a href="http://jackievanbergen.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/trove-tuesday-what-shame-they-sold-it.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigOOBiNx_Df8b2wvmQKTm8hGnTdwnlBOC23Orfs2OMsMISoyxNiowf14GJei27MQUtBb-Aw-Vo9B0rqz4PvXFvgo0X07682iMAYKtzWvy2MdbTfTfe2AIouJ95T90SsTf3d1lw8gYfjUL1/s1600/IMG_2176.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigOOBiNx_Df8b2wvmQKTm8hGnTdwnlBOC23Orfs2OMsMISoyxNiowf14GJei27MQUtBb-Aw-Vo9B0rqz4PvXFvgo0X07682iMAYKtzWvy2MdbTfTfe2AIouJ95T90SsTf3d1lw8gYfjUL1/s320/IMG_2176.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The only thing I’ve found that relates to any
spelling of Ballentarsen on Google or Trove is a reference on the Terang
Cemetery Index to a James Graham who died in Feb 1919 at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lake View</i> Keilambete, which is in the same area. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Lake Keilambete
was featured in some of the old photos from my Nanna’s collection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This reference states that James Graham was
born in Ballantarson, Inniskillen, Ireland about 1835. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Perhaps he lived on the property prior to my ancestors and had named it after
his home town? </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Perhaps he gave it the name?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Perhaps he sold it in 1918 because he was ill?
And moved to his elder son’s property?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Searching for James Graham reveals:</span></div>
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(John) Graham died 31 July 1918 aged 32, from effects of gas poisoning during
WWI service.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">another son, Harry died in
1908 aged 25.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">at the time of enlistment (15
Sep 1914), Jack Graham’s next of kin was his older brother Charles Augustine
Graham who lived at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lake View</i> via
Terang.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jack had two service numbers:
1136 in 1st Bn on enlistment and then 1235 in 14th FAB<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">at the time of his death,
James Graham had been ill for several years: possibly why Jack put his brother
down as next of kin. His mother had died in 1900.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The children of James Graham
and Margaret Armstrong were: George (1867-1956), William James (1869-1939), Mary
Ellen (1870-1954), Eliza Jane (1873-1966), Matthew Armstrong (1875-1954), Charles Augustine (1878-1940), Thomas (1880-? in Tasmania), Henry / Harry (1882-1908), Robert Johnson (1884-1969), John / Jack (1885-1918). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Margaret Armstrong d1900 was
the daughter of a Western District pioneering family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">They married in 1866 in
Victoria.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Ellerslie / The Sisters / Ballangeich / Keilambete area from Google Maps</span></i></td></tr>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-91491282654416899362016-04-13T14:05:00.000+10:002016-04-13T14:08:50.855+10:005 generation Health History / Cause of Death chart<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Many of my family and
friends know I studied biochemistry and immunology, and worked in hospital
pathology laboratories for many years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">So, with my own fascination
and inspired by <a href="http://helenvsmithresearch.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/thanks-paul-for-mycolorfulancestry.html" target="_blank">Helen Smith’s blog </a>including her health history charts, here is
my own ancestral health history / cause of death chart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It was hard to know what
colours to use as there are many different causes of death, and multiple causes
for some. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">For most of these, it was
hard to tell which was the overriding cause of death, and which just symptoms
or other conditions that existed at the time of death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I coloured the boxes or text
of those with heart disease as that seemed to dominate my family’s chart – a
fair warning to us all to take care of our heart now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I’ve entered the age at
death too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Many lived long lives (especially
for those early times) so no surprises that a number died of organ failure or
senility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-67282757246147805542016-03-30T16:40:00.002+11:002016-03-30T16:40:49.224+11:00I'm back / 5 (6) generation charts<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial;">I’m back!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I made a new year’s
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I’ve seen so many of these
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My places of birth chart is
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The 5th generation
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Wales and Scotland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then I tried a places
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was so monochrome that I added a
6th generation to get some colour!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then of course I had to add
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-66724111208021413662014-09-04T10:32:00.000+10:002014-09-04T10:32:01.704+10:00Thankful Thursday(s) - a surprise win<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM-R5QH5O08NONvgRcEwAZQTTE_KGVk_6X47HN61aFmq7jRoM_rZ0TzDlQPd-ZEHpWAWe1gujogVxE225voiZtqH1TBkQ6Yp4uP8YqML1tn3EyXzkRl32AXIN2N44oqFG7i5evqxu6ttFl/s1600/IMG_8052.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM-R5QH5O08NONvgRcEwAZQTTE_KGVk_6X47HN61aFmq7jRoM_rZ0TzDlQPd-ZEHpWAWe1gujogVxE225voiZtqH1TBkQ6Yp4uP8YqML1tn3EyXzkRl32AXIN2N44oqFG7i5evqxu6ttFl/s1600/IMG_8052.jpeg" height="240" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This time last week I got an email from Shauna
Hicks, co-ordinator of <a href="http://www.familyhistorymonth.org.au/" target="_blank">National Family History Month</a> sent me an email to say I
had won one of the fabulous prizes from the many sponsors of NHFM.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I won a full registration to <a href="http://www.congress2015.org.au/" target="_blank">Congress 2015 in Canberra </a>next March - the 14th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry
26-30 March 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What a wonderful prize!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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There’s a great program of talks and workshops,
and some amazing venues for the welcome function and dinner.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Then today, it arrived in the post - not just a
note on how to register but beautifully presented - a special prize indeed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I had been intending to register before the
early bird registrations end on 31 Oct but hadn't got around to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Just like I haven't got around to writing my
blog for ages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the meantime: the first Volume of our <a href="http://kuringgaihs.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/rallying-troops-set-to-be-launched.html" target="_blank">Society’s WWI Commemorative books</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-83975168438274790792014-05-24T19:24:00.000+10:002014-05-24T19:24:23.109+10:00Sepia Saturday – There were three in the bed and the little one said...<div class="MsoNormal">
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week’s <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/sepia-saturday-229-24-may-2014.html" target="_blank">Sepia Saturday photo prompt</a> is of girls on a bed with dolls and other
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only 3½ years between the three of us so despite living on farms, there was
always ‘someone to play with’, or to fight with!</span></div>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-911318492067467272014-05-17T08:56:00.000+10:002014-05-17T08:56:46.205+10:00Sepia Saturday – The (lost) innocence of youth<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">This week’s <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/sepia-saturday-228-17-may-2014.html" target="_blank">Sepia Saturday photo prompt</a> is of a lady filling a sandbag - and a little boy in a sailor suit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuO5hJfbH9zm-lmyiAeFer6zfE0zbk1WAnjW08CLtjK5xmOABGGStDffQhOsiWmzalcYsL6Tst_eVnNQjWyxIDlPY-IfQftdrkr8F3FOe0gR_80Ivm6QrX_EpDizevQuID5ZNI3JoS4ImY/s1600/Arno+van+Bergen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuO5hJfbH9zm-lmyiAeFer6zfE0zbk1WAnjW08CLtjK5xmOABGGStDffQhOsiWmzalcYsL6Tst_eVnNQjWyxIDlPY-IfQftdrkr8F3FOe0gR_80Ivm6QrX_EpDizevQuID5ZNI3JoS4ImY/s1600/Arno+van+Bergen.jpg" height="400" width="275" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">Straight away it reminded me
of a photo of my father-in-law Arno van Bergen taken in Limburg, Netherlands
around 1930 and wearing a ‘sailor suit’, and so a good prompt to begin writing his fascinating story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Arno was born Johannes
Arnoldus van Bergen in 1925 in Maastricht to carpenter Johannes Jacobus van
Bergen (b1895) and tobacconist Maria Elisabeth Hardy (1898-1993). Many
generations of both sides of his family had lived in Limburg, with his mothers
family going as far back as I could trace - all from Maastricht.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The innocent looking boy in
the photo knew nothing of what was to become of him as war broke out in his
country by the turn of the decade. He had a very strict Catholic upbringing so
he is almost certainly not wearing a sailor suit at all – it is probably a
choir or altar boy’s outfit, and he is likely to be holding a bible or prayer
book in his hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He was a mischievous boy who
loved to run and play soccer. He was very good at maths. By 1940 he had
probably finished school, or was in his last year.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">Despite the destruction of the </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">Wilhelminabrug</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;"> and the </span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">Sint Servaasbrug</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;"> (pictured) <br />German troops passed Maastricht, a vital traffic hub, relatively quickly. <br />Photo taken 10 May 1940 in Maastricht (from Wikipedia)</span></i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><u>A month after his 15th
birthday</u>, on 10 May 1940, German troops invaded the Netherlands. The
inexperienced Dutch Army held out for four days until the Germans bombed
Rotterdam and 800 people were killed. The Royal family and the government went
into exile in England. Anyone in a government position who stepped down was
replaced by a member of the NSB, the Dutch Nazi Party. Some government
officials tried to stay on to protect the Dutch people from things like
conscription into the German army. Some newspapers and radio stations were
banned or shut down in an attempt to control.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The aftermath of the 1940 bombing of Rotterdam from Wikipedia</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><u>Before he turned 16 years old</u>, the
first ‘roundups’ of Jews occurred, on 22 Feb 1941 and this shocked the Dutch so
much the illegal Dutch Communist Party called for a national strike (and
marches) three days later. It started in Amsterdam and spread to outlying
towns. The Germans were caught by surprise and reacted by shooting at groups of
strikers. The strikes didn’t prevent further persecution of the Jews but it did
strengthen the disgust for National Socialism in the Netherlands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In 1941 every Dutch citizen
over 14 years (so including Arno) had to carry an identity card. Propaganda was
increased, with an overwhelming amount of cinema newsreels, pamphlets,
brochures and posters. Aversion to Jews was stirred up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Netherlands had pride in
their educational system, with different religious groups having separate
schools. The Germans had trouble gaining influence in the schools apart from
giving preference to NSB teachers, banning school books and increasing the
hours of German study. Pupils and teachers were fiercely anti-German so jokes
and songs circulated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Many more people became church-goers
as protests were preached from the pulpit and clergymen urged their
congregations to help those in hiding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Catholic and Christian trade
unions came under National Socialist leadership in 1941 and when the churches
urged members to cancel their membership, 95% took their advice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The standard of living
dropped, imports were impossible and many goods were transported into Germany.
There were long queues at shops, petrol became scarce and bicycle tyres were
replaced with wooden ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><u>Just after he turned 17</u>, at
the end of April 1942, all Jews were required to wear a Star of David, and
deportations began in that summer. About 80% of the Dutch Jewish population was
murdered in the extermination camps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><u>As Arno turned 18</u>,
the Germans decided they needed labour forces and announced 300,000 Dutch
soldiers would be transported to Germany. Spontaneous strikes broke out and
spread across the country. Known later as the ‘milk strikes’ because they were
mainly in country areas where farmers refused to deliver milk to the factories.
The German occupiers responded, executing strikers and shooting at groups of
strikers. They insisted on all radios being handed in, resulting in many being
hidden. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In May 1943, all men between
the ages of 18 and 35 had to report for forced labour – this included Arno,
aged 18 years and one month – bad timing!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">About 140,000 Dutch citizens
were taken to Germany and forced to work very long hours in factories that were
Allied bombing targets. There were promises of good meals, cigarettes and
payment, that in reality didn’t eventuate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">About 120,000 more were used to dig trenches and build fortifications in
northeastern Holland – “soldiers without guns”.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Arno was one
of these - moved from his home in Maastricht, Limburg over 200 kilometres to the
area around Lochem, Gelderland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Many of those in forced
labour died or suffered long term physical and/or psychological effects. Many
tried to go into hiding but this was difficult as they had no money or ration coupons,
and they were fearful of what would happen to their family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This move was in one sense a
good thing for Arno as it is how he met his future wife, and mother of my
husband.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This post is long enough –
I’ll talk to my mother in law and write more later – including how Arno escaped!</span></div>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-28298770912328097192014-05-15T21:09:00.000+10:002014-05-15T21:09:00.065+10:00Treasure Chest Thursday – WieWasWie is now in English!<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ever since the wonderful
genlias website was ‘taken over’ by Wiewaswie, the ability to search (and read)
Dutch records in English disappeared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I was able to fill in lots
of gaps in my husband’s family with genlias. It wasn’t completely in English
but with the help of my mother in law and google translate, I was able to get
lots of answers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I’ve just seen on a blog
from January this year that the <a href="https://www.wiewaswie.nl/en/home/" target="_blank">new website is now in English</a>! I can’t believe
it’s taken me so long to notice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I guess that’s what comes
from bookmarking favourite websites and just clicking on them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So now, a whole new (Dutch)
world has opened up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The WieWasWie (translates to WhoWasWho) database includes civil register
records, church records, passenger lists of the Dutch East India Company and -
for now - rarely memoranda of succession. Apart from these historical records,
you can search user generated content, family trees and biographies by other
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There’s even a <a href="https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/using-the-dutch-website-whowaswho/885" target="_blank">video</a> to help
you use the site – produced by familysearch as part of their FamilySearch
Learning Centre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-12109615832030031522014-05-11T21:52:00.003+10:002014-05-14T20:07:44.628+10:00Sepia Saturday – It’s OK to play games at the table<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This
week’s <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/sepia-saturday-227-10-may-2014.html" target="_blank">Sepia Saturday photo prompt </a>is of two little girls playing games and an
outdoor table.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the large number of photos I scanned last time Mum and Dad visited there are a
good number of kids (and some ‘grown ups’) having fun around tables. Who said
you couldn’t have fun at the table?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The first: My
great grandfather with his step children at the main table, and his children at
the side table. My grandfather and his brother were close in age and had
similar </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial;">mischievous</span><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> personalities as men, so I’m sure they were a handful as
youngsters. This was taken around 1910 at Black Rock where they had a
‘weekender’, a little beach shack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was in the Netherlands. She lived in Lochem, Gelderland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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table, this time probably in the Darlot swamp near Longerenong where we lived.
I’m guessing this is my 10th and my brother’s 8th birthdays because there are
two cakes – our birthdays are two days apart. My grandmother is also in this
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-56926715234710946352014-05-04T20:21:00.000+10:002014-05-04T20:21:05.327+10:00Sepia Saturday – Lovely ladies<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">This week’s <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/sepia-saturday-226-3-may-2014.html" target="_blank">Sepia Saturday prompt </a>is a photo </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">of five ladies taking part in what is described as a 'Greek Cymball
Dance’ at a Sufragette Ball. It is suggested we may wish to hang on to that
description as a possible avenue to explore if inspiration deserts you.
Otherwise we have May Day, dancing, folk traditions or very silly poses; take
your pick or forget about themes altogether.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I’m working as part of a team in our local historical society to
publish three books of biographies of local WWI soldiers. We are in the final
proof reading stage of Volume 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-54081561410156391572014-04-08T16:03:00.000+10:002014-04-08T16:03:00.226+10:00Trove Tuesday – Life in the WW2 Camps<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is the 5th in ‘the series’
about him – <a href="http://jackievanbergen.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/trove-tuesday-sergeant-keith-leo.html" target="_blank">Sergeant Keith Leo Grenfell</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I found a couple of general
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Things I wouldn’t normally have thought about, or thought to look for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One of my previous posts contained a fabulous video clip of the <a href="http://jackievanbergen.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/wordless-wednesday-bonegilla-march.html" target="_blank">Bonegilla march</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I found an article highlighting the problems encountered during that march with
the knitted socks sent to the men by ‘well-intentioned’ knitters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Another article talks about
the huge logistics involved in getting them all home for Christmas in 1940.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">…and another, about the need
for handkerchiefs pyjamas, sandshoes and musical instruments!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #433b35; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Shows
accommodation huts, several men sitting on grass nearby.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #433b35; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The donor's
father Douglas West (1896-1980) was a carpenter who worked on the construction
of the camp buildings in 1941. The buildings were later used as a hostel for
European immigrants.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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collection of Bonegilla photographs. State Library of Victoria</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>c1940 anti-aircraft training at Bonegilla</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This post continues on with a study
of my grandfather, Sergeant Keith Leo GRENFELL (1911-1944).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I’m linking the <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/sepia-saturday-222-5th-april-2014.html" target="_blank">Sepia Saturday photo prompt</a> (related to dangerous activities) to his training at two
WWII camps – Bonegilla (near Albury) and Darley (near Bacchus Marsh).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I’ve already written about <a href="http://jackievanbergen.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/trove-tuesday-sergeant-keith-leo.html" target="_blank">some of his military service</a>, and the <a href="http://jackievanbergen.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/wordless-wednesday-bonegilla-march.html" target="_blank">150 mile Bonegilla march</a> (with the fabulous
old film clip - sepia and crackly).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here are some photos I found
on <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/" target="_blank">Trove</a> from the two training camps that I consider to be ‘dangerous training’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was certainly dangerous training for my grandfather as he was wounded during
one training and never really recovered. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But that is a story for another day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here are some fabulous
photos from the Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of
Victoria.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>c1940 training with a medium machine gun at Bonegilla</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We don’t have many photos of
my grandfather, so imagine my excitement when I was flicking through the photos
and came across one among the Physical Training group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What do you think – is the fifth
from the back my grandfather?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I’ve included a photo from
our own collection taken just a few years earlier for comparison.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>c1940 training with a medium machine gun at Bonegilla</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>c1939 Learning the correct way to throw hand grenades at Darley</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>c1939 Climbing over and through barbed wire fences at Darley</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>c1940 Learning how to disarm a soldier at Bonegilla</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>2nd AIF NCOs training, at Darley. Is it Keith, 5th from the back?</i></td></tr>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-65763225958517303542014-04-02T16:07:00.000+11:002014-04-02T16:07:29.178+11:00Wordless Wednesday - The Bonegilla March<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Continuing on with my last
two blog posts about my grandfather Sergeant Keith Leo GRENFELL (1911-1944) who lived and worked in <a href="http://jackievanbergen.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/sepia-saturday-floods-in-yallourn-1934-5.html" target="_blank">Yallourn</a> and his
<a href="http://jackievanbergen.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/trove-tuesday-sergeant-keith-leo.html" target="_blank">WWII experience</a>…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3TvYkuxlWD1cYGnd2bNXnvqPMI41gsLidDXqfi3H3bEmb0zRzohmRfqYMie93NEr3NAEK-Dd_P9azK4-GMdswTkQ97xTTKIg7CtOzIDVMR8GCDZTJWXP8UIzz6Ypc-v730FTrWG6fIcTw/s1600/Wed+-+Troops+on+move.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3TvYkuxlWD1cYGnd2bNXnvqPMI41gsLidDXqfi3H3bEmb0zRzohmRfqYMie93NEr3NAEK-Dd_P9azK4-GMdswTkQ97xTTKIg7CtOzIDVMR8GCDZTJWXP8UIzz6Ypc-v730FTrWG6fIcTw/s1600/Wed+-+Troops+on+move.jpg" height="640" width="248" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">I found this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIaiOsw16lU" target="_blank">YouTube clip</a> of
his battalion, the 2/21st on the Bonegilla march in September 1940. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There is no sound
unfortunately, but exciting nonetheless to know that he was in amongst these
soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The text that is included
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The only video of the 2/21st Btn
marching from Trawool to Bonegilla. September 1940. In December 1941 they were
sent to defend the Island of Ambon, most were taken prisoners by the Japanese
after an estimated 20,000 marines invaded the Island in 1942. By the end of
1945 after 3.5 years in captivity only few survived. The death rate of the
Australian force was over 75%.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I’ve also included another
clipping about the Bonegilla camp, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">and a photo of troops marching at Bonegilla,
from the Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of Victoria.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-83068123256297814692014-04-01T15:34:00.001+11:002014-04-02T17:41:40.037+11:00Trove Tuesday – Sergeant Keith Leo Grenfell – Part I<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">It seems appropriate to
start ‘ANZAC’ month with the Anzac closest to me but who sadly I never met.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnZKFNoV9g9XqiAcIxKW85CNAEN9ndKI28hOkTa92y7fFSgn_BwZJErVx3U1P8VacT4Wp9DwB3mYWoJbZtz4hTtE-TuyCPlVMeeAdbodwZSB6Ab_wryfD_-TOQf-MAp-kQnNKlhWg5X_Cz/s1600/xTues+Yallourn+1937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnZKFNoV9g9XqiAcIxKW85CNAEN9ndKI28hOkTa92y7fFSgn_BwZJErVx3U1P8VacT4Wp9DwB3mYWoJbZtz4hTtE-TuyCPlVMeeAdbodwZSB6Ab_wryfD_-TOQf-MAp-kQnNKlhWg5X_Cz/s1600/xTues+Yallourn+1937.jpg" height="400" width="343" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">When researching my <a href="http://jackievanbergen.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/sepia-saturday-floods-in-yallourn-1934-5.html" target="_blank">Yallourn post for Sepia Saturday</a>, I came across a couple of other articles linked to my
grandfather, Keith Leo GRENFELL (1911-1944). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There are photos of my grandfather on that post.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Keith was a boilermaker /
fitter / engineer at the Yallourn Power Station. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I found this article from
1937 (when he was there) on the vast undertaking at Yallourn, attributed to
Engineers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I found another where the Yallourn SEC engineers went out on strike and wondered whether he would have gone on strike
too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If he was at all like his wife and son, I can't imagine he would have gone willingly.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinZdllEZbBDdJnA-UPz1Zy7XxXXIhkg2Wi9IaIVtqlJZE_KKoa-uTAvn7VNC_VO0hD32JTeWTPpK4HlGw2Zu6x8I5zOVthUx5qQsh8bKPR8XG2WhBNDlFWUR_UAF477-1__zGBp1K80aXV/s1600/xTues+Yallourn+strike+1938.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinZdllEZbBDdJnA-UPz1Zy7XxXXIhkg2Wi9IaIVtqlJZE_KKoa-uTAvn7VNC_VO0hD32JTeWTPpK4HlGw2Zu6x8I5zOVthUx5qQsh8bKPR8XG2WhBNDlFWUR_UAF477-1__zGBp1K80aXV/s1600/xTues+Yallourn+strike+1938.jpg" height="270" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">After reading through his
military file, I searched and found a couple of articles about the amazing
march from Trawool (near Seymour) to Bonnegilla (near Albury) his training battalion undertook in 1940.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And another praising the value of the Militia men in training the soldiers of the AIF.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In 1929, Keith enlisted in
the 52nd Battalion of the Citizen Militia Forces (CMF) at the age of 18, in
Caulfield. He was promoted to Corporal by mid 1930, then to Sergeant in October
1933.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In January 1937, Sergeant KL
Grenfell transferred to Yallourn and was promoted to Company Sergeant Major
(CSM) a year later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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CSM, he “Reverted to Sergeant at own request” and transferred to the 37th
Battalion from the 52nd. I can’t see anything in his record to indicate why he
would request a ‘demotion’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On 26 June 1940, he enlisted
in the 2/21st Battalion AIF. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This was just before his 29th birthday, although
he claimed to be 30 years old. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At this time he was married to my grandmother
and they had a son, my father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He was promoted to sergeant
within days of enlisting, probably because of his previous rank and 10 years service
with the CMF.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He joined the assembly of
the 2/21st Battalion at Trawool in Central Victoria. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">They trained in Trawool
until 23 September 1940 when they were moved to the Bonegilla camp near
Wodonga. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The battalion made the 235km journey ON FOOT!, arriving on 4 October. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This was the longest military manoeuvre ever undertaken in Australia. </span></div>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-71554026796248641712014-03-30T14:31:00.000+11:002014-03-30T14:31:53.455+11:00Sepia Saturday – Floods in Yallourn, 1934-5<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/sepia-saturday-221-29-march-2014.html" target="_blank">Sepia Saturday prompt for this week</a> shows a barge crossing a flooded river or lake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I didn’t have any flood
photos in my massive sepia collection, so turned to <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/" target="_blank">Trove</a>, the wonderful
National Library of Australia search engine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I found a large number of
articles and some great photos of the 1934 flood that filled the open cut brown
coal mine at Yallourn in Victoria’s Gippsland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The first three photos are from the JP
Campbell collection of glass negatives documenting industrial enterprise at
Yallourn, ca 1920-1940 (and held by the State Library of Victoria).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On 1 Dec 1934, flood waters
burst the banks of the Latrobe River and 65 million gallons poured into the
vast open cut mine at Yallourn. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The coal, dredgers, and
other equipment (valued at more than £500,000) were all submerged and this left
Victoria with electricity for only a week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The plant supplying drinking
water to the town was also under water, creating further problems. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A special
train had to be chartered to bring milk, bread and meat to the town as all
roads were cut.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The rains that caused the
floods were unprecedented and broke the 71 year records held by the Weather
Bureau – in three days, the Gippsland region had around 1100 points (about 11
inches, or around 280mm).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This was followed closely by
another flood at Easter 1935. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But this time, the emergency levees quickly built
after the Dec 1934 floods were able to prevent further flooding in the open
cut. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Pumping was still proceeding following the 1934 floods – by February, the
open cut still contained 3.65 million gallons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The pumps were set up on
pontoons and drew off 1 million gallons an hour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This all happened just
before my newly-married grandparents moved to Yallourn. My grandfather, Keith
Leo GRENFELL (1911-1944) was an electrical engineer (on his marriage
certificate) and a mechanic / fitter (on the electoral rolls). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I’ve written a
little about <a href="http://jackievanbergen.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/sepia-saturday-three-men-went-to-war.html" target="_blank">him before</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">You can read some personal
accounts of the floods on the wonderful <a href="http://www.virtualyallourn.com/node/4898" target="_blank">Virtual Yallourn website</a> – brought to
my attention by another regular Sepia Saturday blogger, <a href="http://www.shazlex.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Sharon of Strong Foundations</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-41265382569272991752014-03-24T15:34:00.000+11:002014-03-24T15:34:12.790+11:00Sepia Saturday – Robert Raikes<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">A bit late this week due to
a big birthday in the family and a trip interstate to all get together and
celebrate it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/sepia-saturday-220-22-march-2014.html" target="_blank">Sepia Saturday prompt this week</a> is a statue. I can only think of one statue linked to my family:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1tUr5hnkzA8zsjQj7dCysBiOGmuFkTOe160PaCQxWBIUCYH48NrDdZ0-6kXNKq5FuzplYfjpLuWnOzp7nqBILmo1wXVTuLAtGN9fk5-FxJum5AvT4pTCYdj-UpaeKdTB4kgXukSHQuu6i/s1600/Robert_Raikes_(Gloucester).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1tUr5hnkzA8zsjQj7dCysBiOGmuFkTOe160PaCQxWBIUCYH48NrDdZ0-6kXNKq5FuzplYfjpLuWnOzp7nqBILmo1wXVTuLAtGN9fk5-FxJum5AvT4pTCYdj-UpaeKdTB4kgXukSHQuu6i/s1600/Robert_Raikes_(Gloucester).jpg" height="400" width="296" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">This is a statue of my 5x
great grandfather, Robert RAIKES (1736-1811).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In 1880, a statue of him was
erected on the Victoria Embankment (between the River Thames and the Savoy
Hotel, London) to celebrate the centenary of the Sunday School movement. There
is a copy of the statue in Gloucester and I think another in Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Robert Raikes inherited the
business of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gloucester Journal</i>
from his father but is best known for establishing the Sunday School Movement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We grew up with stories from
our grandfather John Raikes GARRETT (1908-1992) about all this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Pa was quite a
storyteller so we didn’t really believe him, especially as he never seemed to
go to church himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Much later when I started my
family history research, I learned that this story was true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Robert Raikes started school
on Sundays when he realised that crime was connected to lack of education. He
opened the first school in 1780 with the aim of providing (initially) boys with
the chance to learn to read when most of those from lower social classes worked
six days a week. He used his own paper, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gloucester
Journal</i> to promote the idea, and just 20 years after his death (in 1811)
about 1.25 million boys and girls were regularly attending school on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Robert had married Anne
TRIGGE in 1767 and they had 10 children, (two dying by the age of two). My 4x
great grandmother Mary RAIKES (1773-1812) was the second daughter to survive
infancy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Mary Raikes married Henry
GARRETT (1774-1846) who went on to become Vice Admiral of the White. They also
had 10 children who all survived childhood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My 3x great grandfather,
John Thomas GARRETT (1802-1852) was their second son. I have written about him
and the family before, <a href="http://jackievanbergen.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/fact-or-fiction-search-continues.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was John’s son, Henry
Raikes GARRETT (1838-1876) who came to Australia in 1858.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-62538692226452109372014-03-18T15:51:00.002+11:002014-03-18T15:51:30.673+11:00Trove Tuesday - Finding John Williams<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">In a continuation of <a href="http://jackievanbergen.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/mystery-monday-who-was-john-williams.html" target="_blank">my blog yesterday</a>, trying to find out more about John Williams, father of John Brooks /
Brookes, ancestor of my new cousin Barry, I turned to Trove.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE9aI_ywEuCNtwC5VjosCZ4V4tscS3GlBk6r3jyFE-OTGVSKuiClpk-qhDZcDInJVzzO4tTTh2qXAGvshKTE1tkUc6-vkIf5_iB2TQUcqgaOWMYlBr__wFneFgKI8-kPy_4t6uMuxWgX2s/s1600/18410316+Williams+J.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE9aI_ywEuCNtwC5VjosCZ4V4tscS3GlBk6r3jyFE-OTGVSKuiClpk-qhDZcDInJVzzO4tTTh2qXAGvshKTE1tkUc6-vkIf5_iB2TQUcqgaOWMYlBr__wFneFgKI8-kPy_4t6uMuxWgX2s/s1600/18410316+Williams+J.jpg" height="340" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">John Williams is really not
an easy name to search – so common, both names can be surnames or first names,
and both names can be street names.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But, narrowing down year and
state by using filters helped a bit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I wonder if these articles
could be referring to ‘my’ John Williams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It would sort of make sense if he had
been convicted and jailed for something and that is why he was out of Jane’s
life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Both these offences occurred in 1841, the year young John was born.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I also think maybe Jane and
John weren’t married. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">When Jane and Thomas
Brook/Brooke/Brookes were to be married, they had to complete an Application to
Marry (a convict). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On this, Jane listed herself as Jane Cundell, not as Jane
Williams. This was 21 September 1843.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Their daughter Mary Anne was
born in July the following year, 1844.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p>I also found the death notice for John Brookes (son of John Williams) and so now know he died in Glenormiston and was buried in Terang - both in the Western District of Victoria where so many of the Brooks / Brookes family lived (and died).</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p>Another couple of pieces in the puzzle.</o:p></span></div>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-10442912933924899532014-03-17T16:48:00.002+11:002014-03-17T16:48:23.466+11:00Mystery Monday - Who was John Williams, blacksmith?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I’ve had contact from yet
another new cousin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jane Brookes nee Condell</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Barry is descended from the
first child of my 3x great grandmother, Jane CONDELL / CUNDELL (1821-1904).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Jane had a child before she
married my 3x great grandfather, convict Thomas BROOK / BROOKE / BROOKS
(1810-1894) in New Norfolk, Tasmania in 1844.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This child was born on 16
June 1841 and baptised on 25 June 1841 as John WILLIAMS, son of John WILLIAMS,
blacksmith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After the marriage of Jane
and Thomas, young John was raised as John BROOKS / BROOKES. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have not been able to find
any further mention of ‘the’ John Williams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">It’s a difficult name to
search – being so common, and with the surname closely approximating a first
name too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After Thomas’ conditional
pardon in 1845, he moved to Mt Shadwell, near Mortlake in Victoria’s Western
District. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Jane and the children
followed after the birth of my great great grandmother Frances Eliza BROOKS in
1846.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">John Brookes married
Angelina SANDERS (1855-1952) in Mortlake on 25 April 1877 and they had three
daughters and two sons:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Angelina Elizabeth, born
1878 in Ballarat, married Jeremiah Thomas SINCLAIR and died in 1943.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Emma Jane, born 1880 in
Ballarat, married Henry LONG (son of Frances Eliza BROOKS, see above) and died
in 1953.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ernest John Thomas, born
1884 in Mortlake, married Ruth SHARROCK and died in 1971.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Albert Arthur, born 1888 and
was Killed In Action at Pozieres in WWI in 1916.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Vida May, born 1898 in
Terang, and married first Stanley BAXTER, then Percy BENNETT.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">John Brooks died in Noorat on
16 January 1915 age 73 years and was buried in Terang cemetery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Angelina, his wife, lived to
the remarkable age of 96 years, dying in 1952.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">I've previously written about Jane and her family <a href="http://jackievanbergen.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/melbournes-birthday.html" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://jackievanbergen.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/trove-tuesday-long-country-obituaries.html" target="_blank">and here</a>.</span></div>
Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-35477462866917368472014-03-08T10:26:00.000+11:002014-03-08T10:26:30.105+11:00Sepia Saturday – Memories of the Polio epidemic<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>My Dad (left) and his mate Brian,<br />up on the back trellis fence.</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This
week’s <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/sepia-saturday-218-8-march-2014.html" target="_blank">Sepia Saturday prompt photo</a> is from a series of images showing the areas
in Sydney affected by the outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
suggestion is fences, backyards and bubonic plague.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I
have fences, a big backyard and a polio epidemic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Australia’s
first polio epidemic was between July 1937 and July 1938. In 1947-48 and 1951-2
Australia had its 2nd and 3rd polio epidemics. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Most of those affected were
children under the age of 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">My
parents remember a little about these epidemics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">During
one of these epidemics, my Mum’s parents sent her and her little sister to her
grandparents farm in the Western District of Victoria for a month or so. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mum
thinks her mother was with them for most if not all of this time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">She can
remember helping around the farm, feeding turkeys and lambs, and also having
picnics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Mum (right) and her sister on the farm with <br />some kittens (paling fence around backyard)</i></td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mum
said they went for a very long time but it may have only been a month –
everything seems longer when you are a kid!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">My
Dad was still living in country Victoria, in Yallourn at the time of the
1947-48 epidemic. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">He thinks they were probably a bit isolated down there so
wasn’t aware of much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Both
of my parents were living in Melbourne at the time of the 1951-52 epidemic. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">They can remember, “kids just disappeared from school, never to be seen again”. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Dad
says he remembers friends (young people) in iron lungs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">They
then reminded me of the fuss I made when taken to get my polio vaccine. Seems I
was a source of amusement for my brothers!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Time
to stop the questions :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-35664964156988920642014-03-02T09:01:00.000+11:002014-03-02T09:01:24.814+11:00Sepia Saturday – A Family on the Rocks<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO3DUWK_albzv5_29uuECT2WBhSZTjTiv6OemzS7eKo5jtxtfN_2tCgQAvAh0ga72672ZB-iggHPUXBQIvdra5IV_o0tlICPk4u_OJzgvpcRj9QtlOnQD80kDRa6aeoyrjCVjFvJ0f0FP1/s1600/SCAN0606.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO3DUWK_albzv5_29uuECT2WBhSZTjTiv6OemzS7eKo5jtxtfN_2tCgQAvAh0ga72672ZB-iggHPUXBQIvdra5IV_o0tlICPk4u_OJzgvpcRj9QtlOnQD80kDRa6aeoyrjCVjFvJ0f0FP1/s1600/SCAN0606.jpg" height="400" width="227" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This
week’s <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/sepia-saturday-217-1-march-2014.html" target="_blank">Sepia Saturday photo prompt</a> is a photo of three men on rocks with a
telescope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">When
I saw this it reminded me of two sets of photos in my collection – so this is
the second two blogs I’ve done for this prompt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
first blog was a day or two ago, and was of <a href="http://jackievanbergen.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/sepia-saturday-nannas-rocky-backyard.html" target="_blank">my Nanna and her family</a> (and dog)
in their ‘back paddock’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This
one is of my Pa and his family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Strangely
both these sets of quite similar photos were taken well before they met and
married!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Pa,
John Raikes GARRETT (1908-1992), used to tell my Mum (his daughter) about how
he used to go on weekend drives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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he would go by car with his father, brother and sisters, and other times on his
motorbike.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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certainly look like they were having some fun clowning around and striking poses
on the rocks – but again, look at the clothes – men in three piece suits and
ties, ladies in court shoes...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Pa
also told Mum he used to ride his motorbike out past the property where his
future wife lived, not knowing her at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of these photos are taken on rocks by the beach but I wonder whether some of
these photos were taken in a different part of the same Stony Rises that my
Nanna and her family also posed in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>My Pa is on the left, then his sister Shirl. Brother Noel is on right </i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Pa is in the front with all the ladies, his brother Noel is back left.</i></td></tr>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-37783702716456022192014-02-27T15:04:00.001+11:002014-02-27T15:04:49.406+11:00Sepia Saturday – Nanna’s Rocky Backyard<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhScTL4S7JnowFoc5WDG2wA1yqU7b77DfRghsjkZcMft16TzAMMCrppSakJJsDlaa_W9Swi6aArNU-alxeIvYOwzKD_zC5Y4NO9AlYINYE8JW-rWZlXtf0q1X77G3Ae4Fa_1dzEGMtoC28o/s1600/Stoney+Paddock,+Watch+Hill+-+Version+2_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhScTL4S7JnowFoc5WDG2wA1yqU7b77DfRghsjkZcMft16TzAMMCrppSakJJsDlaa_W9Swi6aArNU-alxeIvYOwzKD_zC5Y4NO9AlYINYE8JW-rWZlXtf0q1X77G3Ae4Fa_1dzEGMtoC28o/s1600/Stoney+Paddock,+Watch+Hill+-+Version+2_2.jpg" height="400" width="233" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">This week’s <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/sepia-saturday-217-1-march-2014.html" target="_blank">Sepia Saturday photo prompt </a>is a photo of three men on rocks with a telescope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When I saw this it reminded
me of two sets of photos in my collection – so I’ll do two blogs for this
prompt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The first blog is of my Nanna
and her family and the second will be of my Pa and his family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Strangely both
these sets of quite similar photos were taken well before they met and married!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When my Nanna, Mavis
Fanshawe LONG (1906-1982) was in her teens, her family moved to Watch Hill,
Beeac in Victoria’s Western District.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I've written about this beautiful property before, <a href="http://jackievanbergen.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/trove-tuesday-what-shame-they-sold-it.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Their ‘back paddock’ was
known as ‘the Stony Rises’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When I asked Mum (Nanna’s
daughter) about the Stony Rises, she told me, </span></div>
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Hill. This was a volcanic area, very large and some of it was on their [her
grandparents] property. It hadn’t been cleared of rocks. We used to go
rabbiting there with Pa [Edward Long] and the sheep dog called Budgie.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Nanna loved animals,
especially dogs, so it’s no surprise to see her dog Nip with her amongst the
rocks in quite a few of these photos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What is a little surprising
are the clothes and shoes that they went climbing over these rocks in – even a
fur coat!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-65382446532605858092014-02-25T18:25:00.000+11:002014-02-25T18:25:32.145+11:00Trove Tuesday – Married for 65 years<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">In fact, they made it to 66
years!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Yesterday, I had a very
excited phone call from my Mum. She and Dad had been to the Sunday meeting of
the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Terang-District-Historical-Society-Inc/450426955021737?id=450426955021737&sk=info" target="_blank">Terang & District Historical Society</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When they arrived, Mum was
pointed to sit on a couch next to another lady, Betty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As they chatted, they
realised they were related – 2nd cousins – their grandmothers were sisters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhNtWqSOuZV4ATnrw76gKa8o6GR83qgAvQTh4oP0tkhkKeSavP5mULb8Nysp6UT7vDLt1AN1Xxt9X4-bQmZdPn8hsVmnOdpTArg5wCyZSkgfFc-nofCC-1sSzbnfIMATj55ifvFtRTg1rr/s1600/IMG_0012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhNtWqSOuZV4ATnrw76gKa8o6GR83qgAvQTh4oP0tkhkKeSavP5mULb8Nysp6UT7vDLt1AN1Xxt9X4-bQmZdPn8hsVmnOdpTArg5wCyZSkgfFc-nofCC-1sSzbnfIMATj55ifvFtRTg1rr/s1600/IMG_0012.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial;">Not just any sister of Mum’s
grandmother (Sara Henrietta STONEHOUSE) either, but the sister that my Mum was
named after: Mary Janet STONEHOUSE.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Mum commented on the
longevity in the Stonehouse family – Mary Janet lived to be 92, her sister Jane
Elizabeth was 85 and Mum’s grandmother Sara was 80. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Betty (on the right) is 89 years old –
doesn’t she look great?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>(Yes, Mum, you look great too, but you are not 89!!)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Mary Janet was born in
Victoria in January 1857 and lived until after the end of WWII, dying in June
of 1949. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What amazing changes she would have seen!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This prompted me to look up
the local newspaper of the time to see if there was any comment regarding Mary
Janet living to such a great age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I found an article about her
and her husband, Hugh McCONNELL celebrating their 65th wedding anniversary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Seems her husband was also
long-lived – living to be 92, and celebrating their 66th wedding anniversary
shortly before his death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Mrs Edward Long
mentioned in this article is Mum’s grandmother Sara Henrietta, the baby of the
family, born in 1873 when Mary Janet was 16 years old.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What a small world!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From Trove: Camperdown Chronicle
Tue 8 Jan 1946 p2</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Couple's 65th Anniversary Of
Marriage</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McConnell,
of "Raloo" Kolora, celebrated the 65th anniversary of their marriage
at their home last week. The marriage took place at Warrnambool on January 3,
1881. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr. McConnell who is the youngest and the only surviving member of a
family of ten, came to Australia at the age of 16, with his parents from Larne,
Northern Ireland, 72 years ago. They travelled on the sailing ship, "Great
Britain," which took three months to make the voyage. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mrs. McConnell is a
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Stonehouse of Laang, Victoria, and
with her sister, Mrs. Edward Long, of Beeac, are the only surviving members of
a family of 11. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mrs. McConnell is aged 89, has good eyesight and is a splendid
knitter. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mr. McConnell is a keen gardener and attends to the spacious garden at
his home. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nine surviving members of the family of 12, with Mrs Long, were
present at the celebration. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The couple have 30 grandchildren and 22 great
grandchildren.</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-19765627598023122702014-02-18T13:11:00.000+11:002014-02-18T13:11:10.025+11:00Tech Tuesday - Apps for Genealogy - CamScanner<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">While on the recent <a href="http://www.unlockthepastcruises.com/" target="_blank">Unlock the Past Genealogy cruise</a>, I was asked about some of the apps I use for
genealogy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was then suggested that I
write about some of these on my blog. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I am by no means an expert. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Most
of those I will write about are just some apps suggested by others or found in iTunes that I have
tried and used in my genealogy research.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here is the first:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Partial view of CamScanner for iPad in iTunes</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My favourite is CamScanner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This comes as a free app for
both iPad and iPhone (different apps).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I love this app because
turns my iPad or iPhone into a portable scanner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And, until archives and
libraries allow us to take our <a href="http://www.gould.com.au/Flip-Pal-Mobile-Scanner-p/fpl001.htm" target="_blank">Flip Pals</a> in and use them, this is the next best
thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">You have probably tried to
take a photo of a document (or photo) with your iPad and found that you either
get shadows (because you are blocking some of the light source) or the image
ends up a bit skewed (because you weren’t able to line it up completely
square).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">CamScanner helps in two
ways:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">- it can provide you with a
grid – to help you line it up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">- it can automatically
correct the orientation of the document.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The latter is the real
bonus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">First you take your photo –
and you must take it through the CamScanner app, not using the usual camera on
your device.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The app then detects what it
thinks are the edges and corners of your document.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If these are not correct,
which often happens when there is a lot of white space (such as a letter), you
are easily able to adjust the borders using your finger. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When you touch the
screen, the corner magnifies so you can really hone in on the edge that you
want. This also allows to you crop the image.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When you have adjusted all
the corners and edges, you press Next to move onto some editing features, such
as rotate, lighten / darken etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then you press Save <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When you press the share
button, you can choose to email it as a pdf or a jpg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">You can also share it via,
eg print or uploading to the Cloud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I haven’t tried all the
extra functions that come with this app (yet), including OCR, annotations and
even watermarks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you have tried these, I’d
love to hear how they worked for you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This app does all I need it
to do without purchasing the premium version.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I believe there is also a
version for android devices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jackie van Bergenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14108390437411946657noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2069889176131245744.post-33858648081553065902014-02-16T15:10:00.002+11:002014-02-16T15:10:50.554+11:00Googling a Cousin<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mum
and I have recently returned from the 4th <a href="http://www.unlockthepastcruises.com/cruises/" target="_blank">Unlock the Past genealogy cruise</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Mum and her aunt, Sandy's mum</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Thomas
MacEntee of <a href="http://geneabloggers.com/" target="_blank">Geneabloggers</a> fame was one of the main speakers and I attended most of his talks
(probably all of them). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In
the latter part of the cruise, many of his talks revolved around different
facets of Google and how to use them in our genealogy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mum
and I have had an experience that is a perfect example of the message delivered
in these talks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Some
time ago, I had a message on my blog (Google product: blogger) from a
researcher. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had a Google alert on the names of two people he is researching for a book. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of these men was Mum’s uncle, married to her father’s sister, who died in 1978. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mum was particularly close to this aunt as they shared a birthday, and it was
this aunt who had introduced Mum’s parents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Mum and Sandy - one of the few looking at the camera<br />- they were too busy talking most of the time!</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mum’s
last contact with her cousin Sandy, their daughter was at least 20 years ago at
a funeral. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
email address we were given by another family member was incorrect but did give
us a clue to Sandy’s business name, which we were then able to find through a Google
search.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Turns
out Sandy had moved to Tasmania – and the UTP cruise was docking in Hobart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Google
maps helped us find their farm and Mum had her reunion with Sandy, spending many
hours (way past her normal bed time) chatting, laughing, looking over photos
and generally catching up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I’m
sure it will not be another 20 years (or another funeral) before they see each
other again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>My Nanna, Mum, Sandy, Mum's sister and Sandy's brother picnicking</i> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sandy's parents with Mum's mother (right)</i></td></tr>
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