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Adventures in Genealogy
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Sergeant Basil Lowingham Henderson DCM (1891 – 1967)
Read more: Sergeant Basil Lowingham Henderson DCM (1891 – 1967)Born and raised in the South Australian country, an early volunteer for the first world war, Basil Henderson appears to fit the classic, bronzed, Australian stereotype. Long silences in his army records speak volumes about his character and fitness for service. Waves of diarrhea, diphtheria, and venereal disease, plagued other soldiers. He fought in rocky,…
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Basil goes missing again
Read more: Basil goes missing again“Oh God, not again, who is it this time?” Sarah looked at the envelope, the only typewritten letters she ever received were from the army. She walked outside the general store, put her basket down and sat down on the top step, staring at the envelope as if willing it to disappear. The townspeople kept…
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Solemn Grandure
Read more: Solemn GrandureOn the ninth of February, 1859, a man known only as a “Special Reporter” described the scene of a recent bush fire, perhaps this was how the Davis family may have felt. He wrote1: “Having left Echunga after sunset, I had at least one advantage of travelling in the dark. The innumerable burning logs and…
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Fire
Read more: FireIn 1859, John and Rosa Davis had been married for nine years1. had four young children2, and lived in Macclesfield, South Australia, a colony less than thirty years old3. In February of that year, a bushfire ravaged the area and several lives were lost. There are no less than ten contemporary newspaper accounts. The damage…
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Layers
Read more: LayersThirty-eight and fifteen Robert St, Glasgow. My great-grandparents Archie and Jane Rowley lived here and raised twelve children from 19111 until their deaths in 19322 and 19423. Today it is a car park in a light industrial area, a candle workshop and a retail outlet4.[4] I do not see the carpark. I see nineteenth-century tenements…
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Emigration – Why would you?
Read more: Emigration – Why would you?John and Julia Kidd emigrated to Australia sometime between 1907, when Clarissa was born in Durham, England1 and 1913, when Selwyn was born in South Australia2. After extensive research, no record of either departure or arrival can be found3. One thing that records cannot reveal, is what motivated this nineteenth-century couple to emigrate to the…
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Basil goes missing
Read more: Basil goes missingSarah looked up from the pot she was stirring, to see the face of her best friend in the doorway. “Sarah Henderson, if you don’t sit with me and take tea, you will feint with exhaustion, and then what use will you be when they bring Basil home? You have black rings around your eyes.”…
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The Saga of Clarissa Kidd
Read more: The Saga of Clarissa KiddMy children’s paternal great-grandmother, Clarissa Emma KIDD has been extremely difficult to trace. I found a website created for the descendants of Mr Thomas Henderson1 but it is sparsely referenced and not accurate. I also found two family trees with a Clarissa in Ancestry Library2 and again the information was sparsely referenced and less than…
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Sounds and Smells of Glasgow
Read more: Sounds and Smells of GlasgowArchibald Rowley1, was born in 1897 in the very small village of Forgandenny near Perth in Scotland. His father, the local policeman died a mere two and a half years after Archie’s birth2. Sometime after that, his mother moved her family to Perth, where she worked as a laundress3. The next place we find Archie…