tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73629284736756738672024-03-14T07:24:27.497+10:00GenieQA blog about my ramblings through family history, both in Queensland and the world.Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.comBlogger187125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-82192573778998647282019-08-07T16:20:00.000+10:002019-08-07T16:22:05.689+10:00DNA journey<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I cannot believe that I haven't posted on my blog since 2016. I must have been having too much fun in my life! </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The most important issue in my family history journey at the moment is DNA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am looking forward to the <i>DNA Downunder</i> seminar in Brisbane on the 14th August thanks to the <i>Unlock the Past </i>crew. The DNA guru <i>Blaine Bettinger</i> from the USA is the main speaker at the seminar & I'm sure my head will be spinning at the end of a very full day. Blaine's new book <i>The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy</i> (Second Edition) has now arrived in Australia, should be a good read as it's updated from the 2016 edition. DNA is certainly a fast-moving affair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I visited my 96-year-old cousin from the Clarence Valley after last Easter, I administer his DNA kit and found Ray fascinated with the results. Ray's son & daughter were also interested in the DNA. Having already researched the Connor side of Ray's family - as it's also my tree of course - I spent some enjoyable time researching his maternal line. Only to find that Ray has three ancestors who arrived on the Second Fleet. How lucky can he be? Second Fleet. I thought I was the early arrival part of the family, my earliest being Peter McCann who arrived on the 11th January 1800 onboard the <i>Minerva</i>. None of the Connor sides has any convict ancestors that I have found so far, no wonder Ray was as pleased as punch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com0Brisbane QLD, Australia-27.4697707 153.02512350000006-28.3721187 151.73423000000005 -26.5674227 154.31601700000007tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-2409027471601979312019-08-07T16:15:00.000+10:002019-08-07T16:41:05.785+10:00Sunday thru Wednesday - Ireland, England & Guernsey<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sunday morning and up at 5 am as I hadn't packed the night before - tired after a Guinness or two! Drive to Shannon Airport took only 25 minutes, but the return of the hire car took another 29 minutes. Very helpful shuttle driver helped with the luggage, and the Aer Lingus check-in went smoothly. Had assistance to the plane and at Heathrow Terminal 2. I was amazed that I didn't go through Immigration at Heathrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thankfully the assistance at Heathrow took me directly to the taxi stand - very friendly London cabbie took me to the Kew Gardens Hotel, obviously in Kew near the Kew Gardens. Arrived about 11:30 am and of course my room was not ready however the staff were most apologetic and offered me a cup of tea. The bar at the hotel is very comfortable and relaxing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After checking in I thought I would get myself organised to visit The National Archives (Kew) on Monday, but when I checked the opening times I found that TNA was closed on Monday! Not a problem.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I caught the Tube - the District Line - from Kew Gardens Station to South Kensington. I was going to visit the Victoria & Albert (V & A) </span>Museum and was able to follow the subway tunnel from the tube to the side entrance to the museum. I wanted to see the jewellery and Victorian exhibitions in particular and was thankful for a volunteer guide's assistance. This kind person offered me a wheelchair and guided me to the cafe for a cuppa and then to the Jewellery exhibits and the Victorian exhibit. Many thanks to the V & A volunteers</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The exhibits I saw were spectacular, and I have photos below of three diamond bow brooches and a large Victorian silver centrepiece.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After viewing the exhibits at the V & A I took a London black cab to Liberty of London where I had a light lunch at the Liberty Cafe. What a wonderful store, so many beautiful things to look at and dream about owning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Off early to TNA at Kew, the hotel is very close just a short walk to the Kew Gardens station and through the subway tunnel to the archives. Managed to get my reader's ticket with no problems and then off to the Reading Room. Delighted to see the original parchment records of three of my convict ancestors. I had previously seen transcriptions but seeing the original documents was amazing. Interestingly TNA does not require researchers to wear gloves except when viewing photographs. Of course, I visited the bookshop at TNA and sent eight books home - difficult to resist the temptation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tuesday night was my last at Kew Gardens Hotel and I enjoyed an early dinner of soup and dessert with a glass of Chenin Blanc or two. I would recommend this hotel for anyone researching at TNA, very welcoming and friendly staff, nothing is too much trouble for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Up early - 5:30 am - as I needed to be in central London by 8:00 am to begin my Back Roads tour of the Channel Islands and Northern France. I had a taxi arriving at 7:00 am and the driver was on time and very helpful. We arrived at the Wellington Hotel at 7:45 am in plenty of time. There were already three people waiting in the hotel forecourt. The coach (a Mercedes 16 seater) arrived at 8:40 am as the tour guide had problems with the London traffic. This extra time gave us time to meet the fellow travellers, a total of fifteen. There are three singles and six couples on the tour All from Australia except for one delightful couple from Toronto, Canada.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Off to Windsor Castle where I stayed in the town as the hill was a bit too steep for me. After lunch, we travelled to Winchester Cathedral where interestingly enough Jane Austen is buried. Then off to Corfe Castle in Dorset for overnight at Morton's Manor House hotel and dinner. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We left early the next morning as we had to make the ferry to Guernsey at 10:30 am, a three hour trip. I found that I don't have sea legs as it was very rough in the Channel and my balance was not the best. The ferry arrived on time at 1:15 pm at St Peter's Port, the main town on Guernsey. We are staying on Guernsey for three nights so no packing and unoacking as we did on the first night. I am glad we stop for three nights at most hotels. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Delicious lunch at the Octopus Bar & Restuarant, quite the best classic fish soup I have had for a long time. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then off for a tour of Sausmarez Manor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sausmarez Manor has an interesting history dating from 1117. You can read more about this fascinating family and how they progressed to today <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausmarez_Manor">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I waqs absolutley exhausted on Thursday night that I slept for three hours then had a snack and slept for another ten hours.</span>Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com4Guernsey49.465691 -2.585278000000016649.136143 -3.2307250000000165 49.795239 -1.9398310000000167tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-52438847376597416572019-08-07T16:14:00.001+10:002019-08-07T16:14:54.285+10:00Friday thru Sunday - Guernsey & Jersey<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Friday morning in Guernsey</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Close by the hotel is the Priaulx Library, you can read about the library <a href="http://www.priaulxlibrary.co.uk/">here</a>. The library preserves Guernsey's history and genealogy and makes it available to the public. A family historians paradise, how I wish I had Guernsey ancestors! The librarian on duty was thrilled I was from Australia and doubly thrilled I was interested in the library and the collection. She introduced me to a book produced by </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">La Société Guernesiaise titled Guernsey Emigrants to Australia 1828 - 1899 by David Kreckeler. The book lists 1229 Guernsey men who emigrated to Australia and has a short biography of the men and their sea captains. I have ordered a copy of the book for the Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The library is located in the Candie Gardens, beautiful trees and flowers and a photographic exhibition of Guernsey thru the ages in movement.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next day we visited the German Occupation Museum. Guernsey was occupied from 30th June 1940 until liberation on the 9th May 1945. You can read more about this extraordinary museum </span><a href="http://www.germanoccupationmuseum.co.uk/" style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. The whole island of Guernsey is full of fortifications, bunkers, tunnels etc that remain after the Second World War. There is even an underground hospital that the Gedrman Army used. I am not really one for remains of war but most people on the tour were fascinated. We even saw a bunker on the side of a hill that had been turned into a house - come on Grand Designs.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After returning to the hotel we were fortunate to meet with Molly Bihet, who told us in her words about the occupation and liberation. Molly was nine when Geermany occupied Guernsey and fourteen at liberation. she has written a number of books about the occupation and they are fascinating reading - much more interesting than bunkers, guns etc. You can read more about Molly <a href="http://www.get.gg/acw/">here</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sunday morning we checked out of the Duke of Richmond Hotel in the morning, cases in the coach etc. Isn't it amazing that when you repack a bagit never seems to go in the same? As the ferry to Jersey wasn't leaving until 4 pm we had the day to explore more of Guernsey.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ferry left on time from St Peter's Port, Guernsey and arrived at St Helier, Jersey at 5:10 pm. Our wonderful guide, June, took us for a lovely drive through the south and west of Jersey. Great scenery and a majestic sunset. I was in my heaven when we stopped near a graveyard at the Church of St Brelade.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were many gravstones dedicated to seafarers with sad memories of people lost at sea and died in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. These people were cod fishers and many moved to Canada following the cod.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was a long day and I was releived to arrive at our hotel, the greenhills Country Hotel. More about the hotel tomorrow.</span></span>Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com0Jersey49.214439 -2.131250000000022749.048469 -2.4539735000000227 49.380409 -1.8085265000000228tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-48395097477724790472019-08-07T16:14:00.000+10:002019-08-07T16:14:32.485+10:00From Guernsey to home<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well I intended to blog while I was away and that started well but, as always I got caught up and decided that Facebook was easier while on the move.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, to give a taste of the six weeks away I will summarise: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jersey was interesting, beautiful in its way but very different to Guernsey and quite expensive. After all, it is a tax haven and lots of bankers, accountants and lawyers abound. We stayed at a great hotel, the Greenhills Country Hotel and I would have liked to relax there for a longer stay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After Jersey, the tour went to St Malo in the north of France - Brittany - an interesting town with great seafood, particularly oysters. On the way to St Malo, we visited a megalithic site at Dinan, very interesting as it is located in an oak grove and the Druids celebrate their rituals at the site. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We went for a day trip to Mon St Michel, a site that I had long wanted to visit. The day was perfect, not a cloud in the bright blue sky but perishingly cold. I was unable to manage the climb to the top of the mount but enjoyed part of the way up and some fabulous fish soup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Finishing off my trip to Brittany, we went to Chartres Cathedral, another place I always wanted to visit. Thankfully it was mercifully fairly free of tourists, and I could wander in the silence and absorb the gothic beauty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then off to Paris and the Eurostar to London. Down to Somerset and the village of Lopen where my Thomas family lived and died. They were all baptised, married and buried at the All Saints Church, Lopen. It was wonderful to sit in the church and know that generations of my family had sat there and worshipped. From the film of the vestry minutes, I know that Jonas Thomas, my 4th great grandfather and his son James (both master carpenters) repaired pews, built fences, repaired the roof, relocated the choir and more. As they were poor they didn't have headstones but sitting in the churchyard on a peaceful sunny day I felt them very near.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From Somerset, I went to York and then up to Scotland near Inverness to visit Fort George and the Highlanders Museum. This had particular significance for me as my 2nd great grandfather, Dugald Cameron, served in the 79th Regiment of the Foot (Cameronian Volunteers, later the Cameron Highlanders) as a drummer from its inception on the 17th August1793. You can read more about the Highlanders <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_Own_Cameron_Highlanders">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After Fort George, I drove west to the Highlands and the ancestral home of my Cameron family. They lived near Fort William, also on the ARnamuchan Peninsula and worshipped in the village of Acharacle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After the Highlands, I drove down to Glasgow through Glencoe. Glencoe is a forbidding place with high mountains and rocks - read about the massacre <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Glencoe">here</a>. While driving through the Glen, two RAF jets came swooping down at great speed and frightened the daylights out of me apparently they use the glens for practice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I flew from Glasgow to Belfast with EasyJet and was pleasantly surprised. I expected to be charged for luggage and I wasn't, I received assistance on and off the plane and the crew were fabulous - no problems at all. In Belfast, I took the city tour bus and was fascinated with the murals in the Falls Road and the Shankill. While I was there a man was murdered in his house in West Belfast by paramilitaries - it seems nothing much has changed. I caught the train from Belfast to Dublin for the Back to Our Past expo. I attended for two days and was fascinated to catch up with people I had met in Ennis. The Genetic Genealogy lectures were a bonus. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After Dublin, I drove to Derry where my Connor family came from. It was fascinating to visit the village of Ballykelly and the townland of Moyes nearby. I also met with Brian Mit6chell from Derry Genealogy and had a lovely three-hour chat. Unfortunately, I caught up with people just before I left and had so little time with them. A good excuse to return in 2017!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So off to Dublin and home via two nights in Dubai with Emirates. I didn't enjoy Dubai though the hotel, the Radisson Blu on Deira Creek was fabulous. Dubai is too artificial and flashy for my liking.</span><br />
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Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com4United Kingdom55.378051 -3.4359729999999912.203021 -86.05316049999999 90 79.18121450000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-47497555428354725972019-08-07T16:13:00.000+10:002019-08-07T16:13:28.219+10:00Custody of the locket<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I collected my mother's things from the coast last week I also gained custody of "the locket". Let me explain about the locket. My 2nd great grandfather Joseph Antoney gave his wife, Elizabeth Hannah Young, the locket on their wedding day in Bowen on the 30th July 1867. Elizabeth Hannah was a Dublin lass and as you will see from the photo the locket has an Irish harp on the front side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The locket has passed down the generations thru the eldest daughter and is passed on on the death of the current holder. All the female siblings of the eldest daughter have worn the locket on their wedding day as I did and as my daughter-in-law did on her marriage to my son. On my death, the locket will go to my eldest granddaughter, Amy Robyn. The chain holding the locket is one-third of a chain that my great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Hannah, had as a chatelaine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately, Elizabeth is not wearing the locket but her daughter Annie Jacintha is wearing the locket in the photo below with her husband John Douglas Thomas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And now for "the locket" itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am enjoying wearing the locket as it has direct connections to the female line of my family - my 2nd great grandmother Elizabeth Hannah Young my great grandmother Annie Jacintha Mary Elizabeth Antoney, my grandmother Dorothy May Thomas and my mother, Patricia Dorothea McCann. Also, of course, my various grand aunts and aunts - Daisy Elizabeth Antoney, Francesca Cecelia Jacintha Birkbeck, Dora Lorraine Birkbeck, and Joan Douglas McCann. Their daughters, my cousins, Jacintha Marion McCready, Ellen Norah McCready, Elaine Ethel McCready, Margaret Mary Spottiswood, Helen Spottiswood and more that I don't know if they wore the locket on their wedding day.</span><br />
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Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com2Brisbane QLD, Australia-27.4697707 153.02512350000006-28.3721187 151.73423000000005 -26.5674227 154.31601700000007tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-47644351685485707422019-08-07T16:12:00.000+10:002019-08-07T16:12:28.540+10:00Mum's 92nd Birthday - 28 May 2016<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My mother, Patricia Dorothea McCann, was born in Brisbane on the 28th May 1924 the first child of George Douglas McCann and Dorothy May nee Thomas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mum and her parents lived with the McCann family at a house known as "<i>Beechdene</i>" which was on the corner of Gregory Terrace and Costin Street, now the entrance of the Royal National Show, the Ekka. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mum had her first birthday at Beechdene, and I love the photo of her with her dolly, she received it for her birthday; Mum told me it was her favourite doll all through childhood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mum's only sibling, Joan Douglas McCann, was born on 11 November 1926, completing the little McCann family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They seemed to have a happy childhood, Mum was very close to her father and helped him in the garden and around the house. My grandfather, Doug, had serious leg issues from an early accident at a sawmill so needed help and Mum delighted in helping out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The family bought a block of land in Trickett Street, Surfers Paradise two houses from the beach early in 1933 and camped on there until Doug had some flats built. Mum told me many happy stories about travelling down to Surfers in the early days, no bridges on the highway, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I love the beach and remember many happy holidays at <i>Havering</i>, as the flats were known, we had the "<i>owner's flat</i>" of course - a big upstairs flat with a wonderful sun deck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mum was close to her sister Joan and was happy to have her as her sole bridesmaid when she married in 1946. The photo below was taken at the McCann residence, <i>Denmora</i>, before the wedding reception.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately, the marriage did not last, and Mum came home to her parents, I was born in Southport as Mum lived at <i>Havering</i> with her mother during the latter stages of her pregnancy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We had many happy times, Mum and I and many "discussions" over the years as well. As is often the case we had periods of distance and periods of misunderstanding but I am pleased to note that over the last 20 years we were once again close. I phoned her every day between 4 and 4:30 and still think of her at those times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mum was the carer for my stepfather, who had dementia, and a tireless housekeeper. I often used to say that Mum's house was so tidy that you had to look under her pillow to see her perfectly folded nightie to see that it wasn't a display house. But, that said, it was a welcoming, loving home.</span><br />
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Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-24842266391964994362016-09-25T02:52:00.003+10:002019-08-07T16:15:29.459+10:00Friday & Saturday in County Clare<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Friday morning in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland and a free morning before the conference - <i>Diaspora of the Wild Atlantic Way</i> - commences at 1:00 pm. Yesterday on my way to Kilfenora I heard a song on Clare radio - <i>I left my heart in Miltown Malbay</i> - so I thought I must go to this market town 32 km from Ennis. The drive went well, hardly any other traffic just a few tractors close to the village. I found Miltown Malbay quite disappointing, definitely not what I would call a charming village so I went through the village and turned on to a charming side road. Once again my prayers were answered and I didn't come across any traffic except one truck and that occurred when I had room to pull over! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On my way back to Ennis I came across a sign to Clare Abbey and decided on the spur of the moment to go down another small road towards the Abbey. Such a lovely idea as it turned out as there was nobody else there at the time and so peaceful. Clare Abbey was the first, largest and most important Augustinian house in Clare, founded in 1189. It's situated on an elevated site beside the River Fergus and is surrounded by farmland. You can read more about Clare Abbey <a href="http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/places/clarecastle6.htm">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back to the Conference Centre, time for a nap and then the conference registration and some talks. Interesting meeting some new people, there a few Australians here for the conference. Then time for the Conference Dinner, I chose soup, poached salmon and apple & rhubarb crumble, all delicious. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Castle was built in 1480 by Diarmuid O’Dea, Lord of Cineal Fearmaic. The uppermost floors and staircase were badly damaged by the Cromwellians in 1651. Repaired and opened in 1986, the castle houses an extensive museum, an audio visual presentation and various exhibitions.(Thanks to the Dysert O'Dea Castle website - you can read more about it<a href="http://www.dysertcastle.com/home.htm"> here</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can read more about the Cathedral </span><a href="http://www.theburrencentre.ie/kilfenora-cathedral/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After leaving Kilfenora I came back to Ennis, found a Tesco and bought some supplies I needed </span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and decided to come back to</span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> the hotel. I will be hopefully meeting up with Pauleen Cass later tonight.</span>Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com2Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland52.8474255 -8.988738399999988452.7706955 -9.1500998999999883 52.9241555 -8.8273768999999884tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-23358720475529651852016-09-22T18:43:00.000+10:002016-09-22T18:43:40.576+10:00Ireland - first two daysArrived safely at Dublin airport at midday. After negotiating with the car hire company who tried to give me a manual car I was given a BMW. You may think that was wonderful but as the controls were European - on the opposite side to AUS it took some working out I can tell you.<br />
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Stayed at a great B & B in Carlingford Co Louth - the Belvedere B & B - for the first two nights see the view from my room below<br />
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This shows the ppub across the road and the top of Taafe's Castle.<br />
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Fortified town houses were a popular form of residence amongst the merchant cloasses of medieval Ireland. Taaffe's Castle was situated on the old harbour front which suggests that the building was the residence and depot of an important member of this merchant class. Business was conducted in the bottom floor and the upper floors contained the living quarters. The architecture indicates two phases of construction, the main tower of early 16th century date and a later 16th century extension. The building derives its name from the Taaffe family who became Earls if Carlingford in 1661.<br />
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Belveder B & B also has a beautiful restaruat attached - The Bay Tree - with the excellent chef Conor. Con & Kristina own the B & B and restaurant and have two delightful daughters, Lucy and Zoe.<br />
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On Tuesday I drove to Ardee County Louth whwere my 4th great grandmother, Rosetta Johnson, was baptised. Interesting market town and quite busy. Rosetta lived at Ballygown just outside Ardee and there is nothing there really just some cottages. I drove on to Kells for lunch - found a quaint cafe and had delicious mushroom and tarragon soup with brown bread. See below.<br />
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This early Noprman fortress was named after Kinmg John who visited CArlingford in 1210. The western portion of the castle predates this visit and was probably commissioned by Hugh de Lacy c 1190. A massive curtain wall divides the earlier western courtyard from the eastern wing which contained the living quarters. The eastern section was constructed in the niod 13th century and has alterations and additions dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. The castle commanded an important defensive position on the Lough but by the 16th century it was described as being in a wretched condition and remained so until the O.P.W. undertook conservation work onit in the 1950s.</div>
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Left Carlingofrd about 10 am on Wednesday to drive to Ennis - staying at the conference venue for the next four nights. More later.<br />
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Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com2Ireland53.41291 -8.243889999999964948.564145499999995 -18.571038499999965 58.2616745 2.083258500000035tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-17348181168039465862016-09-18T19:53:00.002+10:002016-09-18T19:53:33.985+10:00Off to Dubai and DublinWell it's finally here - six weeks in the Uk, Ireland, Scotland, Channel Islands and Northern France - I am currently in the Emirates Lounge enjoying a champagne - flight leaves at 9 pm - feeling tired and excited so hope I sleep in the lovely flat bed.<br />
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AM staying in County Louth for two days before I go over to Ennis for the conference - amazing that I will meet up with Pauleen Cass from Aus when we don't seem to catch up at home. I will be keeping you posted in my travelsHelen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-48347295928430417302016-05-08T10:29:00.002+10:002016-05-08T10:30:15.114+10:00Mother's Day 8 May 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today is Mother's Day, Sunday 8th May 2016 and my second Mother's Day without my dear mother. Today I remember my mother Patricia Dorothea, my grandmothers Dorothy May and Dorothy and my great grandmothers Catherine Eunice, Mary, Annie Jacintha Mary Elizabeth, and another Dorothy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Mother's Day to mothers everywhere.</span>Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com1Brisbane QLD, Australia-27.4710107 153.02344889999995-29.275130700000002 150.44166189999996 -25.6668907 155.60523589999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-1883433005077115252016-04-30T09:09:00.000+10:002016-04-30T09:10:20.753+10:00Z is for Zunker and time for ZZZ's #AtoZChallenge2016<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">My theme for the AtoZChallenge is exploring the Walker family . Thinking about the family I realised that they were around in Mackay, Queensland in the early days of settlement so I have decided to discover some snippets of early Mackay as it relates to this family and others in my family tree. I hope you enjoy the journey.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">Daisy Louisa Harvison, my 2nd cousin twice removed, was the eldest child of James Harvison and Florence Elizabeth Walker. Daisy was born in Walkerston the 3rd of August 1895 and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;"> married Wilhelm August Carl Zunker on the 9th June 1926 probably in Mackay but perhaps in Walkerston. Daisy died on the 18th October 1983 in Mackay and I have not yet tracked down her burial.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">I wonder if Daisy was called after her cousin Daisy Elizabeth Antoney who was born in North Eton on the 18th February 1884.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">Now for some ZZZ's as the April A to ZChallenge is over so I can relax, read some blog posts of other bloggers and sleep in on Sunday morning.</span>Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-14732116268416579612016-04-29T10:18:00.002+10:002016-04-29T10:18:56.591+10:00Y is for Young #AtoZChallenge2016<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">My theme for the AtoZChallenge is exploring the Walker family . Thinking about the family I realised that they were around in Mackay, Queensland in the early days of settlement so I have decided to discover some snippets of early Mackay as it relates to this family and others in my family tree. I hope you enjoy the journey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mary Jane Young, my 2nd great-great aunt, was a sister to Elizabeth Hanna Young, my 2nd great-grandmother. Both were the Dublin-born daughters of Henry Young and Hanna (Anna) Young nee Murry. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mary Jane was born about 1845 and Elizabeth Hanna in1846.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Elizabeth arrived in Australia on the <i>Fiery Star</i> in 1864 as noted in her obituary in the <i>Daily Mercury</i> of February 1921. Elizabeth married Joseph Antoney in Bowen on the 30th July 1867. Joseph coincidentally was the quartermaster on the <i>Fiery Star</i>, an obvious shipboard romance. Elizabeth is buried in the Mackay Cemetery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mary Jane arrived per the </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Royal Dane</i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> on 2nd December 1871 as an Assisted Immigrant. No doubt her sister had encouraged her to emigrate. She married Alexander Walker in 1872 in Mackay. Mary Jane was widowed in 1909 and lived until 17th October 1931. She is buried with her husband in the Walkerston Cemetery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is a marked difference in their obituary published in the Daily Mercury, possibly because Elizabeth's family, the Antoney's, were better known in the district. I am sure that Elizabeth received comfort in her last illness with her sister at her bedside. I intend to travel to the Mackay district in the next year or so to visit places that both Elizabeth and Mary Jane lived.</span></div>
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Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-66401958704530109712016-04-28T10:17:00.000+10:002016-04-28T10:21:48.204+10:00X is for X marks the spot #AtoZChallenge2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"<i>What is said upon finding your target has been marked out. Derived from an X on pirate treasure maps. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The phrase was put into common usage by the British army, who performed executions by marking a piece of paper with a black x and positioning it on the heart of someone sentenced to death. The acting officer would say "X marks the spot" and the firing squad would shoot the x</i>."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I rather like the explanation of finding your treasure on a pirate's treasure map. I can relate to that on family history as I go on a search for "lost relatives" and then find a treasure of information. Don't you find that as well? Such satisfaction when a treasure is unearthed.</span></div>
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Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com3Brisbane QLD, Australia-27.4710107 153.02344889999995-29.275130700000002 150.44166189999996 -25.6668907 155.60523589999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-68766070680048075642016-04-27T15:44:00.001+10:002016-04-27T15:44:34.652+10:00W is for Walker and Walkerston #AtoZChallenge2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My theme for the AtoZChallenge is exploring the Walker family . Thinking about the family I realised that they were around in Mackay, Queensland in the early days of settlement so I have decided to discover some snippets of early Mackay as it relates to this family and others in my family tree. I hope you enjoy the journey.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">W is for Walker, the Walker family that I discovered in January this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alexander Walker was born in Belfast, Co. Antrim, Ireland on the 11th June 1825. His obituary states that he went first to New Zealand and then to the Mackay district in Queensland in the mid-1860s. See the <i>Daily Mercury</i> notice below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have found a record of Alex arriving in Hobson's Bay, Victoria on board the Alhambra from Port Chalmers, Dunedin, New Zealand but as yet have not found an immigration record of him leaving Ireland or arriving in New Zealand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are many other mentions of Alex Walker in the <i>Mackay Mercury</i> and the then <i>Daily Mercury</i> over the years, principally about stallions standing at stud and other farming news. Two very intriguing snippets occurred in the <i>Mackay Mercury</i> in August 1888, see below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So we are left to wonder, what was the narcotic used and was Alex taking it for pain relief? Perhaps it was laudanum which</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> "<i>is a </i></span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tincture" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Tincture">tincture</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Opium">opium</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> containing approximately 10% powdered opium </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W/v" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="W/v">by weight</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> (the equivalent of 1% </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphine" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.4px; text-decoration: none;" title="Morphine">morphine</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"><i>)</i>" (Wikipedia) and was frequently used in the 1880s for pain relief and sedation. We will never know.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Walkerston, a rural town on the Peak Downs Highway is six km west of Mackay. Situated on Bakers Creek in a sugar cane area, the settlement was known as Scrubby Creek in the late 1860s and early 1870s. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #494949; line-height: 22.8px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think it is quite ironic that Alexander Walker first chose to settle in Walkerston, perhaps he told his children it was named after them? That would be an interesting "family story".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> [1] <a href="https://www.dnrm.qld.gov.au/qld/environment/land/place-names/search#/search=walkerston&types=0&place=Walkerston44221" title="https://www.dnrm.qld.gov.au/qld/environment/land/place-names/search#/search=walkerston&types=0&place=Walkerston44221">https://www.dnrm.qld.gov.au/qld/environment/land/place-names/search#/search=walkerston&types=0&place=Walkerston44221</a> accessed 26 April 2016</span>Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-42414767455316944032016-04-26T10:39:00.000+10:002016-04-26T10:39:28.956+10:00V is for Vivian and Victoria Mill #AtoZChallenge<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;">My theme for the AtoZChallenge is exploring the Walker family . Thinking </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;">about the family I realised that they were around in Mackay, Queensland in the early days of settlement so I have decided to discover some snippets of early Mackay</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;"> as it relates to this family and others in my family tree. I hope you enjoy the journey.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;">While researching the Walker family I noticed that there were four males with the name Vivian. The first Alexander Vivian Poulson (23 Oct 1909 - 9 Dec 1911), Ronald Vivian Jackson (1929 - 2001), Douglas Ronald Vivian Price, and Vivian Harold James Harvison (1928 - 2008).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Mackay Sugar Company built the Victoria Mill on the Savannah Plains north of Eton. The name of the Company reflected the influence of the Mackay sugar experts but the name of the mill reflected the origin of most of its capital. The company was registered in Melbourne on 18 March 1881, its capital twenty shares of £500 each.</span></div>
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[1] <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Rolleston, Frank. (1987). <i>The Defiance – The story of North Eton Co-operative Sugar Milling Association Limited, 1888-1987</i>. North Eton, QLD: North Eton Co-operative Milling Association Limited.<o:p> </o:p> p.3.</span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My theme for the 2016 Challenge is the newly-discovered Walker family and their connections. This family was unknown to me until a few months ago as I have previously posted and the 2016 Challenge has given me the opportunity to discover more about them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Staying on the Walker family, I have been unable to find any service records for WWI and have found six records of service in WWII, these are listed below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So on this Anzac Day 2016, I have six new family members to remember along with all my other ancestors who fought in wars. Lest We Forget.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com0Brisbane QLD, Australia-27.4710107 153.02344889999995-29.275130700000002 150.44166189999996 -25.6668907 155.60523589999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-35908034078205853802016-04-23T11:27:00.001+10:002016-04-23T11:27:43.839+10:00T is for Dorothy May Thomas and The Hollow #AtoZChallenge2016<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;">My theme for the AtoZChallenge is exploring the Walker family . Thinking </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;">about the family I realised that they were around in Mackay, Queensland in the early days of settlement so I have decided to discover some snippets of early Mackay</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;"> as it relates to this family and others in my family tree. I hope you enjoy the journey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have written many times before about my maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Thomas and her early life in the Mackay District and in my post of 19 April I included a description of her bridesmaids dress (you can read the post <a href="http://genieq.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/p-is-for-powell-poulson-and-palmyra.html">here</a>) so I did some more searching in Trove and found some other mentions of her and her dresses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1910, "<i>The Ambulance Cinderella held at the School of Arts was largely attended, particularly by the young folk</i>..."(I think this was a social with fancy dress), notes Dorothy as "Matron".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1914, again at an Ambulance function, Dorothy was noted that her costume was "<i>scraps</i>", I cannot imagine what type of costume that was, perhaps pieces of material sewn together to form a costume?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1919, Dorothy was a debutante at the Military Ball in North Eton and her dress was described as "...<i>white crepe de chine with an overdress of georgette</i>..." in the Daily Mercury. Her mother and recently returned from WWI stepfather, Col. G.S.C.L. Birkbeck, organised the Military Ball.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I should mention that Dorothy May was born on the 4th October 1898 so that you can tell her age at the time of these functions. As Chris commented previously it is wonderful to read snippets of my grandmother's life as a young girl. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now for <i>The Hollow</i>...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brothers Charles Collinson Rawson and Edmund Stanfield Rawson purchased the grazing property <i>Abington </i>in the Pioneer Valley, including a portion known as <i>Shamrock Vale</i> in 1867, and nicknamed it <i>Sleepy Hollow</i>, and hence its popular name The Hollow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two houses, <i>The Hollow</i>, and <i>The Nyth</i> were built on the banks of the Pioneer River, the present township of Mirani occupying the home paddock of The Hollow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was all well documented in the Mackay Mercury in the 1870s. It must have taken quite some work to create a formal English garden in the sub-tropics but I suppose that they were wanting memories of England. In the Mackay climate, they experienced it is little wonder that they built fourteen-foot verandahs as much of the life of the household could have occurred on the wide verandah.</span></div>
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Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-2680377047034157632016-04-22T11:00:00.000+10:002016-04-22T11:00:36.399+10:00S is Schooner #AtoZChallenge2016<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;">My theme for the AtoZChallenge is exploring the Walker family . Thinking </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;">about the family I realised that they were around in Mackay, Queensland in the early days of settlement so I have decided to discover some snippets of early Mackay</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;"> as it relates to this family and others in my family tree. I hope you enjoy the journey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In early 1852, Rosebud was caught inshore by a westerly gale and was soon a total loss after running on to a sandbank. All the goods etc were washed up and were eagerly claimed by the locals. You can read more about Rosebud <a href="http://www.discovermorningtonpeninsula.com.au/fascinatingfacts/rosebud-naming.php">here</a>.</span></div>
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Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-34941591020490566592016-04-21T08:03:00.000+10:002016-04-21T08:03:22.615+10:00R is for Rupert John Higham and Racecourse #AtoZChallenge 2016<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.376px; line-height: 15.048px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;">My theme for the AtoZChallenge is exploring the Walker family . Thinking </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;">about the family I realised that they were around in Mackay, Queensland in the early days of settlement so I have decided to discover some snippets of early Mackay</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;"> as it relates to this family and others in my family tree. I hope you enjoy the journey.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">R is for Rupert John Higham (also called John), my 2nd cousin twice removed, the third son of William James Higham and Frances Helena Margaret Walker. Rupert was born at Walkerston on the 5th July 1907.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />John and his brother Clary successfully bought a farm at Mt Pelion in 1932 from a Mr. Robinson and were wished success in the Mt Pelion District notes in the Daily Mercury of the 8th March 1932.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Trove tells us that in February of 1935 Rupert won the chocolate waltz at the school dance at Mt Pelion. Doesn't that sound scrumptious?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rupert married Violet Jean Henderson Allan (Jean) in 1936 probably in Mt Pelion. Next, I came across Rupert in Trove selling land in Finch Hatton in January of 1949 and noticed that this was from <i>The War Service (Sugar Industry) Land Settlement Act</i>. So did that mean Rupert had served in WW2?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From the National Archives of Australia's Record Search I found the following in the World War 2 enlistments:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rupert obviously took up further land and farmed in Finch Hatton as he is mentioned several times at meetings of the Cattle Creek Mill at Finch Hatton during the 1950s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now for Racecourse ...</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.376px; line-height: 15.048px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1885, the Mackay to Eton railway, via Racecourse, was opened, and in the following year, Racecourse sugar growers succeeded in establishing the Racecourse Central Sugar Company Ltd. The company's new mill, two km west of the racecourse, began crushing in 1888. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My grandmother often mentioned the Racecourse Mill having uncles and cousins who worked at the mill at different times. I believe her younger brother Claude was apprenticed at the mill but I may be confused.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mackay was hit by a large cyclone in 1918 which caused significant damage throughout the region and again my grandmother mentioned the storm. The Racecourse Central Mill was devastated as evidenced by the photo below.</span><br />
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Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-32993071925541723342016-04-19T09:45:00.002+10:002016-04-19T09:46:28.543+10:00P is for Powell Poulson and Palmyra #AtoZChallenge 2016<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">My theme for the AtoZChallenge is exploring the Walker family . Thinking </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">about the family I realised that they were around in Mackay, Queensland in the early days of settlement so I have decided to discover some snippets of early Mackay</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;"> as it relates to this family and others in my family tree. I hope you enjoy the journey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now for the connection to the Walker family and the Antoney family. Hugh McCready's third son Lionel Campbell McCready married Daisy Elizabeth Antoney (my great great aunt) on the 3rd May 1911 at Holy Trinity Church Mackay. Daisy was the second daughter of Joseph Antoney and Elizabeth Hanna Young - Mary Jane Young sister. So Daisy was Mary Jane's niece and Florence Elizabeth's first cousin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My grandmother, Dorothy May, often talked about her Aunty Daisy and Uncle Lionel and visits to Palmyra. In fact, I have just found a report of Daisy's wedding in the <i>Daily Mercury</i> of 4th May 1911 and discovered that my grandmother was a bridesmaid. You can read a description of her dress below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wonder if the Walker family were there? I can't imagine that they weren't present can you? Unfortunately, the very informative reporting of the wedding didn't include guests so I will just have to wonder.</span>Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-2971944904759545402016-04-18T11:21:00.000+10:002016-04-18T11:21:21.467+10:00O is for Ordinary and Ooralea #AtoZChallenge2016<div style="background-color: white; color: #494949; line-height: 22.8px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0.6em; padding: 0px;">
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<span style="color: #424242; line-height: 20.79px;">Today's post is about Ordinary - ordinary people and ordinary lives. As I thought about the post for O in the #AtoZChallenge the word ordinary came to mind. The Walker family were certainly ordinary people, Alexander and Mary Jane came to Australia as free settlers, farmed and raised their three daughters with little or no fanfare. They become involved with their local community, with the local Church of England and local businesses.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #424242; line-height: 20.79px;">Their three daughters, Florence Elizabeth, Frances Helena Margaret and Georgina Louisa married local men and started their families in and around Walkerston, Mirani and Marian. The Marian Bakery and General Store was conducted by Paul and Florence Elizabeth Poulson until the early 1920's when they took up land at Mt Pelion. Florence was well known in the district for her fancy cakes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #424242; line-height: 20.79px;">So you see the family was ordinary and led ordinary lives - by this I don't mean to be disparaging, far from it, they overcame difficulties and Mary Jane's daughters lost children at a young age, managed to lead lives without apparent scandal and as my mother often said "...<i>they got on with life because that's what you do</i>..." </span></div>
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<span style="color: #424242; line-height: 20.79px;">I come from strong female stock and I think that the Walker family was also strong. Mary Jane left Dublin to travel here by herself, certainly her sister Elizabeth was already her in Queensland, but I think that traveling alone in 1870 was very different to me hopping on a plane and traveling to the UK. My life now is so very different to their lives in the late 1870s and at the turn of the century. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #424242; line-height: 20.79px;">Perhaps because they survived, farmed, ran businesses and became part of their communities makes their lives not ordinary but extraordinary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ooralea, formerly Planlands, is eight km south-west of central Mackay. It was formally named in 1999 and the origin of the name is from a local aboriginal word meaning "<i>Kangaroo Par</i>k".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Its north-east area is bounded by the Bruce and the Peak Downs Highways, and it was there in 1866 that the Mackay Turf Club secured a grant of land for a racecourse. The railway to Marian and Finch Hatton ran parallel to the Peak Downs Highway, and the Planlands station was opposite the racecourse entrance. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">The Club raced in 1868 but later lapsed. It was reformed on May 1</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">st</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">, 1872 and in 1972 the Mackay Turf Club held its Centenary meeting, accepting 1872 as the foundation year</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The racecourse's most notorious event was a riot between South Sea Islander indentured plantation workers (known then as Kanakas) and European inhabitants at the Boxing Day race meeting in 1883 [2]. The paper by C.R. Moore about the riot and the conditions that led to the riot is certainly well worth a read to gain further insight into race relations in early Mackay.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first aeroplane to land at Mackay caused a tremendous stir. Hundreds of people turned out to see the "Flying Machine" at Ooralea Racecourse on 17 September 1920. The airmen, Lieutenant A.W. Murphy and corporal G.R. Simpson were on a tour of Queensland promoting a Peace Loan at the end of World War 1. Over their three day stay in Mackay, $74,000 was subscribed to the Loan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was ten years before Mackay Airport was established, and the site was the choice of Captain Ronald Adair, the founder of Queensland Airlines. He landed his Avro bi-plane at Ooralea in 1927, the only landing ground available. With J. H. Williams senior, he inspected the town common and marked out a landing strip with calico, then flew his plane from the racecourse to make the first landing on what was to become Mackay Airport [3].</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[1] <i style="color: black; line-height: normal;">Pioneer Pageant. </i><span style="color: black; line-height: normal;">Mackay, QLD: Pioneer Shire Council.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: normal;">[2] Moore, C.R. <i>The Mackay Racecourse Riot of 1883</i>, </span>https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:207961/DU270_J33_1978_pp181_196.pdf, viewed 18 April 2016</span><br />
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Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-46384242740951719392016-04-17T10:34:00.000+10:002016-04-17T10:34:27.733+10:00N is for Joyce NITA Meng and Newbury Junction #AtoZChallenge2016<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 20.79px;">My theme for the AtoZChallenge is exploring the Walker family . Thinking </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 20.79px;">about the family I realised that they were around in Mackay, Queensland in the early days of settlement so I have decided to discover some snippets of early Mackay</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 20.79px;"> as it relates to this family and others in my family tree. I hope you enjoy the journey.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;">N is for Joyce NITA Meng, my third cousin once removed, youngest daughter of </span><span style="color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;">Jens Frederick Lauritzen Meng and Florence Mary Elizabeth Harvison. Joyce is a great granddaughter of Alexander Walker and Mary Jane Young. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #424242; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.79px;">It appears that Joyce was living in Cairns in 1950 when she was a passenger in William Boutle's car involved in an accident, as reported in the Cairns Post [1] perhaps she was already engaged?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Newbury Junction was possibly named in 1885 when the Mackay to Eton and Hamilton Railway line was built in honour of David Hay Dalrymple who was the first Mayor of Mackay and was also born in Newbury, Berkshire in England and owned property in the vicinity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Eton residents were not happy with the early start as it left them no time to milk the cows when they left and they had to get breakfast at Newbury Junction while the train travelled to Hamilton. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hamilton was renamed Mirani by November 1885 probably to avoid confusion with the Brisbane suburb of Hamilton [3].</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[1] <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">1950 'Grove-street Accident', </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;">Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954)</i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">, 17 November, p. 5. , viewed 17 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42687891</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[2] <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">1952 'WEDDING', </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px;">Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954)</i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">, 22 May, p. 6. , viewed 17 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42739208</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">1952 'Wedding Bells', </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px;">Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954)</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">, 26 April, p. 5. , viewed 17 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article172095914</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">[3] </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">http://www.mackayhistory.org/research/railway/qrbriefhistory.html accessed 17 April 2016.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">[4] </span><span style="background-color: white;">1952 'WALKED 20 MILES IN PYJAMAS', </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954)</i><span style="background-color: white;">, 6 February, p. 2. , viewed 17 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article172081826</span></span>Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com3Brisbane QLD, Australia-27.4710107 153.02344889999995-29.275130700000002 150.44166189999996 -25.6668907 155.60523589999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7362928473675673867.post-50723140116744325392016-04-16T11:22:00.001+10:002016-04-16T11:22:19.040+10:00M is for Mary Jane and Marian #AtoZChallenge2016<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;">My theme for the AtoZChallenge is exploring the Walker family . Thinking </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;">about the family I realised that they were around in Mackay, Queensland in the early days of settlement so I have decided to discover some snippets of early Mackay</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;"> as it relates to this family and others in my family tree. I hope you enjoy the journey.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;">So, of course, I followed up on this hint and found Mary Jane's marriage to Alexander Walker in 1872 in Mackay and her death on 17th October 1931 in Marian. Mary Jane is buried in the Walkerston Cemetery with her husband Alexander.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;">I found Mary Jane immigration on the <i>Royal Dane</i> on 2nd December1871 [2] so she married quite quickly after her arrival. Perhaps her sister knew Alex Walker and introduced her? Or perhaps it was an instant attraction? We will never know.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20.79px;">Now for Marian...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Marian, a rural town, is 24 km west of Mackay. Situated in the Pioneer River Valley, it is in the heart of a sugar growing area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the late 1870s, cane was the dominant industry, and David McEachran owned substantial acreage. In 1883 he built a sugar mill, employing Marian Smith for secretarial work. She was the daughter of local commission agent, and McEachran named the mill and its associated plantation after her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He also engaged a Melbourne builder, David Mitchell, to construct the mill works. Mitchell was accompanied by his 22-year-old daughter, Helen, who married the mill manager, Charles Armstrong. The Armstrongs lived in the mill manager's house until Helen left him with their son. She embarked on an operatic career under the name <b>Nellie Melba</b>. The Melba house (the former mill residence) was acquired by Mirani Shire and re-erected on the river bank, two kilometres from Marian [3].</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Walkers farmed near Walkerston, probably closer to Newbury and their daughters and grandchildren lived in and around Marian. At different times, their families had the Marian Bakery and General Store. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do remember my grandmother telling me that Dame Nellie Melba lived in Marian in the mill manager's house so her memory was accurate. She just didn't mention the Walkers. I find it interesting to discover how places were named.</span></div>
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[1] <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">1921 'PERSONAL.', </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">Daily Mercury (Mackay, Qld. : 1906 - 1954)</i><span style="background-color: white;">, 2 February, p. 2. , viewed 06 Apr 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article188692401</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">[2] </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Queensland State Archives, "Assisted Immigration 1848 to 1912," </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">online index, Queensland Government (https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset/assisted-immigration-1848-to-1912: accessed 22 February 2016).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[3] http://queenslandplaces.com.au/marian accessed 16 April 2016</span>Helen Connorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00838721062402887789noreply@blogger.com0Brisbane QLD, Australia-27.4710107 153.02344889999995-29.275130700000002 150.44166189999996 -25.6668907 155.60523589999994