Tag: Diploma of Family History
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Family History Tools
I have been researching my family tree for a number of years now and I love filling in all the people, not just my direct ancestors. I was very lucky to be able to study for a Diploma of Family History online which has really helped. It is run by the University of Tasmania I…
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Solemn Grandure
On 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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Layers
Thirty-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?
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
Sarah 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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Granny’s Wedding Ring
An Object Biography Sarah Morgan, my paternal grandmother, married Archibald Rowley in Glasgow, Scotland in 1922, 1 she died in 1945. In 1981, after the death of her only surviving daughter, Sarah, I was given her wedding ring by my father. Wedding rings have been worn by women for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. In…
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Finished Map
This was an assignment as part of the Diploma of Family History I am studying at the University of Tasmania. I chose my paternal great-grandparents, Archie and Jane Rowley, as the subjects for this map. Glasgow is the place of my childhood, and so I chose to draw with children’s crayons. Archie worked in the…
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Annotated Map
I am constructing an annotated map for part of my Family History studies. The unit, Place, Image, and Object requires that I create a representation of a place of significance to myself or my family. All my ancestors are either Scots or Irish and the little I know about them all centres around Glasgow. That…
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Finding a difficult ancestor
I have been slowly tracking down a particularly difficult ancestor called Margaret MORRISON. Firstly her name is unbelievably common in Scotland at the time she lived. Secondly, she never married and so I had no documents that listed her parents. She was the mother of my grandfather Edward WILCOX 1 who was illegitimate. I was…