General Chat

You're right, Allan. I guess space exploration will also become more adventurous in future. I can't imagine anything more beautiful and terrifying that sitting in a space shuttle and seeing the earth in the distance. GET ME HOME!!!!!!!

I always think of the wives left home when their husbands went off exploring. After all we're not talking a few weeks but probably years. My maternal ancestors were good Devon sea-faring stock and a number of them were lost at sea. The families were always left behind to wonder at their misfortune especially when they were "presumed lost".

Sue xx

Well Folks

Time for bed again........

so have a great day my friends.........down there, or a peaceful night up here.

Goodnight -

Regard
Tec

Good night, Tec,

Wow, SueMaid, we seem to be in philosophical frame of mind today, very earnest, but I get like that sometimes.

Allan

Hi, Tec, I'm sure we could all smile very winningly if necessary - although I think Mr Murdoch would probably prefer a pretty young woman to do the smiling:))

I once read a thread on one of the boards on GR regarding the high mortality rate of infants. The poster stated that he/she thought that the parents viewed the loss of their young ones as normal and would not grieve as we would now. There was a huge outcry from a lot of people and although I didn't post I was appalled to think that anyone would imagine that the loss of a baby or toddler was commonplace therefore shrugged off. My grandfather was one of triplets and the only surviving one. In the space of 8 years my great grandparents lost 5 children one of them 15 y.o. I have a wonderful photo of my g grandparents with their remaining 10 children including my grandfather. Father looks proud of his family but sad and Mother looks sad and worn out and older than she actually was. On my maternal side we have a photo of a gravestone which shows the loss of a 32 y.o. man followed by 3 y.o. and 5 y.o. little girls all gone within 10 days of each other. I can't believe that their deaths weren't a cause of great grief.

Sue xx

Night night, Tec.

Yes Allan I get very deep and meaningful at times:)) Doesn't hurt and it's a good way to get to know each other.

Sue xx

SueMaid,

I used to have the same thoughts when I visited the cemeteries. The age of death was so young, and in those days you just couldn't pack up and run back home. Fine for me...back into an airconditioned car, 3hr drive and I was back with my family.

The most poignant grave I saw was on the way to Wiluna: just a tyre marked "Graves" drove past it many times thinking that it was a property marker. One day, I decided to explore and there further down the track, two small graves, twins who died aged about four and within two days of each other. The year of death was in the 1890's. The burial site was in the middle of nowhere

I tried to imagine the two children playing together and then how their parents felt, and now no one to remember them. Very sad

Allan

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I guess that's the saddest thing of all Allan - no-one to remember.

Do you realise your last post is the 500th post:) On that note I shall get on with my day.

Sue xx

G'day all~~~
ac S'mae pawb
We will be trilingual before long:)...lol

Just a quickie to reply to Berona ~~~~~Hi

If you are resurching (sp) Llanelly Parish Breconshire, , it was where I was born and married and both my parents and most of my famaily where born there also..
Mum and dad were married in 1941 but in Brynmawr ,Breconshire,not in Llanelly Parish.

Please excuse any spelling mistakes as this is hubby's lappy, and for the life of me can't find spellcheck.
Will make and effort to do so tomorrow:))
luv Sandie,x

Its very interesting to have a look at the cemeteries, specially those out of the way ones that we see whilst travelling. I am seeing more and more of the crosses along the roads now and I always feel sad when passing.

Whilst researching my family tree I came to get a picture of three sisters when they were grandmothers themselves. There is a fourth sister missing as she died in childbirth giving birth to my grandmother. Always feel sad looking at this picture, such a lovely picture.


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Hi Everyone!

It's a fine sunny day here, after a nice, cold night. I do love to snuggle under my woollen doona (made from Australian wool, of course - I am a sheep cocky's daughter after all!)

There is a lovely little private cemetery that my ancestors are buried in, in NSW. We visited last year. Had to drive over a creek named after my great great grandfather. The view from the cemetery was just gorgeous and I felt so connected. It was amazing to be standing in probably the spot my grandfather and great grandparents stood when they buried my gg grandparents. All, but my grandfather are buried there. There is also a Church, that my great grandfather donated money to, for the building of . Couldn't visit it as it's on private property and the owners were away the day we were there. Next we visited the old family property and my husband took a little container of dirt from it. We showed my father. I'm really glad we got to see these places and show him the photos etc before he died. I still have the dirt by the way!

Oh this darn site has the jumps again. I'm getting motion sickness from it going up and down. Aarggh.

Hope everyone is well.
See ya

Hi, Alison nice to see you again. Isn't it annoying when the site jumps?

My mother's grandmother hailed from Devon and after doing some research on the family I had a couple of contacts through Hot Matches. There began the journey of putting together, with a number of "cousins" around the world, a enormous family tree that just keeps growing. To date we have cousins in Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and of course Britain. Recently I found out that one branch of this family had very illustrious careers in the Navy spanning over 100 years. I have walked in their footsteps, sat in their church and stood outside their homes. And not just this branch of the family tree. In visits to the UK I have visited many places both my family and my OH's family have lived, worshipped and been buried. In fact, thanks to Linda, I know now where many of my OH's family are buried - we've been so close without knowing. Last year I had the pleasure of showing my brother - who shares my interest in family history - where various members of the family lived. We both felt an incredible connection to many places.

Hope you all have a pleasant evening and that our Brit friends wake up to a lovely summer's day.

Sue xx

Hello to all, it is a lovely sunny day in Perth today and not a cloud in the sky.

Enjoyed the conversation this morning between Sue, Tec and Allan,and agree that family research does make you thinkabout the difficult lives some people had etc. Yesterday I read that 150 years ago less than 50% of children born lived long enough to have families.. How times have changed.

Alison, your little cemetery in NSW isn't in the Orange area by chance? My family attended a big gathering of people from all over Australia who shared our surname. It was organised by a woman who was celebrating the centenary of their property so she wrote to everyone she could find with that name in Australia, invited them to contribute their family history knowledge. She had a big display of all the information she gathered, and produced a booklet as well with it all in, and it has proved useful recently to sort out my lot. Sadly we didn't "discover" any lost cousins!

Good morning to those who may be just waking up, hope you have a good day,

Susan.

G'day!! all


i think i have it right now

Hi Susan,

No, not Orange, it's just outside of Guyra. I felt so connected and found it all quite moving, but then, I tend to be over sensitive. When I went onto the old family property, I wore my old riding boots that I used to wear on our property when mustering. I felt I should put the family soil from the 1880's onto my boots to mix with the soil from our family property, from the 1990's (we sold up in 1994).

SueMaid, I have ancestors from Devon, mainly Ugborough I think!

The site isn't jumping anymore, thank goodness.

Cheerio

PS Yes it is!! It just started again. Grrrrr

Alison my mum thought she was good Yorkshire stock from way back but I've found family from Devon, Kent and London on her mother's side. My gran was actually only 1st generation Yorkshire on her mother's side. My mother didn't feel any connection with Devon went we visited there. The family is from Lympstone, Dawlish, Budleigh East and all that area although my branch went to London and another branch ended up in Liverpool. When my parents brought me over to Australia when I was a little girl no other family followed and although my parents talked a lot about their families and I always knew my grandparents' names on both sides I always felt a need to connect. Doing the family history was the obvious way. It's certainly been made easier by the internet. I've also done a little research at Leed's Library - they were so helpful there.

Sue xx

Afternoon/ Morning

Been a lovely day today spent some time with Mum and then a good friend..Weather is beautiful at the moment.
Susan noticed that you are in Perth...Me 2!!! Hope this weather keeps going for the weekend.
Sue my Mum is originally from Devon..Plymouth!

Hope you have all had a nice day and for those waking up enjoy your day !

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Good morning, British time anyway. It has taken me ages to read back all the postings made overnight. I think your scrapbook idea is lovely Sue and something I think OH and I should do. My sister bought a Grandparents book when her daughter was first born. During visits to our parents,she just asked them all sorts of questions about their early life, how they met etc. It makes lovely reading,so I think I should definitely do the same.

Sue, I have good news and bad news this morning. The baptism booklet finally arrived. Unfortunately all of the good news is for me and the bad news for you. Some of the baptisms for my family are there, but yours aren't. There are some Calverts,so I will pm you those, but not the elusive Alexander

I have replied to your message Linda. I'm glad that you have found your baptisms. I'm starting to really dislike my Alexander Calvert. However you have solved the problem of the Morris's. Thanks for that - it's been a long time coming.

I'm off to check some marriages now. I really dislike this habit of people just assuming the names of their step-fathers and then going back to their birth names when it suits:))

Sue xx

Hope I'm not too late to make my booking for the cruise. Just one thing I want to make clear. Allan, I will go for a walk around the deck with you - but definitely NOT at 3AM!!!

My first trip to England was by ship. Took just over four weeks to get there and was one of the last ships through the Suez Canal before it was closed. The return trip was another big cruise - this time through the Panama Canal - 0h to be young again!

Yes, the early pioneers named places after their own hometowns, but it gets a bit confusing at times. We have a city in NSW, named Newcastle, which has a suburb named Cardiff - so when I am looking at a map of England, it's hard to find that Cardiff is not part of Newcastle! This is just a sample of the many places which get confused with their English/Welsh counterparts.

As well as that kind of confusion, I think the pioneers saw the potential for the Aussie towns to be like their namesakes - but they grew to be nothing like them!

Hello again Keith. You seem to have got it now. "G-day"! Hope you enjoy the thread. You can become an honorary Aussie if you wish. The more the merrier.

Hellllllllllllllloooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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