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Sorry Vonny. Mine is with an S. As in 'Welsh'. Originating in Ireland and ending up in Bolton, Lancashire. I guess we is not 'lated :( TX

OK....windows and doors shut......check Blinds drawn.....check Egg-nishoners on.....check Trifley sits in the cool, dark room enjoying the fact that she is not melting with perspiration. Mornin' everyone. Did you all survive your Oz Day festivities? Tony...it sounds as if you had a wonderful day. Family gathered around the BBQ...true Oz fashion. Glad to see you have rain. When your're finished with it can you send it up here? Our dams could do with a bit. Vonny...enjoy your party in Sid den knee. You mentioned the family Welch. I have a twig on my tree by that name, also from Lancashire. I'll have a look see if we're 'lated. Wouldn't that be fun? Big happy hugz to all the other Wattlers. I'm off to re-pot a plant. See ya. love Trifley X

AAHHH Tony Bacon and eggs sound fantastic..and the rain is even better,, We have another sunny day here..butter.. There seems to be a birth in Manchester around 1859 but not All Saints,,could be 1858 or 57.. See what she says when she gets back from Sydney.. Enjoy your brekky.. Love Mary xxxx

Morning Mary...:>)) Best i can do is only ever offer possibilities. Yes, it could be her. But i never say 100%... With a surname like WELCH you are better off purchasing the marriage cert. to be sure. WELCH can be WELCHE,WELSH,WALSH,WALSHE and even seen it as WILCH on Index's. Bacon is crispy, and eggs are sunny side up....:>))) Pouring with rain in Melbum. Tony Oz...:>))

Tony I have found a Thomas and Charlotte Welch in West Ilsley Berkshire and Alice Welch born 1862 in the 1891 census This cant be her if she married in 1882 in OZ..butter..Great you found her,, Love Maryxxx

Morning Wattlers.....:>))) Nice cooler day in Melbum. Might do a bit of FH meself to day. Vonny. This might be who you are looking for. Birth: MULHOLLAND, Charles M......CB 1483558 Birth Father: John Mother: Elizabeth R Reg Year: 1856 Reg State: New South Wales Ref Number: 183 Christening: ALICE WELCH Female Christening: 23 OCT 1859 All Saints, Manchester, Lancashire, England Parents: Father: THOS WELCH Mother: CHARLOTTE Marriage: MULHOLLAND, Charles M.......CM 706186 Marriage Spouse: WELCH, Alice Index Year: 1882 Reg Year: 1882 Reg State: New South Wales Ref Number: 2640 Off to have some breaky. Bacon & Eggs....Yum Catcha ron. Tony Oz...:>)))

Vonny I will have a look for you.. Love Mary xxx

Morning all - going to be a hot one here too. I'm heading up to Sidley today. Family is celebrating my sister's 50th tonight, then I will see my aunt tomorrow - only surviving rellie of that generation - and home again tomorrow evening. Himself is staying home and working on the boat :) I'm hoping to talk LOTS of family history with my aunt. Was trying to find my maternal great grandmother yesterday but no luck. So if someone is bored today.................... :) Alice Welch - c1862 - 1946 (only just started researching so haven't bought death cert) married Charles Millar Mulholland in 1882. I suspect she came out to Oz with her parents Thomas and Charlotte? I tried to find her on Ancestry yesterday but I am not too good navigating around it yet. Have a good day all and i'll catch you tomorrow evening. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vonny

Morning Wattlers Mary you are up early this morning :-) I guess you will be floating about on puta during the day. I will be too, might do some FH myself inbetween watching David to make sure he is ok up on the roof. Eldest daughter is going to a new movie just starting here today called Epic Movie, her and a friend have organised to go. Merle well you are well and truly a nutter ooops sorry a Wattler now :-)))))))) But Im not like some others, I wouldnt pick on you lol. Tony sounds like you had a great Aussie Day, would have been good sitting in the park listening to the old music. We just had a quiet night having a couple or 3 Jim Beams and chatting to another GR member on the puta who is from UK, he asked me if we (Tassie's) celebrated on the 6th Feb like the ozzies do/did yesterday :-0. I did let him know that we was ozzies not kiwis :-)))))))))))). But a nicer bloke would be hard to find, ooops apart from you Tony :-) Cheers Sue

Morning all,, Lovely day here in old Sydney town,, going to be a warm one I think, Quiet day today so might do some FH. Merle I think you have graduated to the mad house,,congratulations.. You are now Officially one of us.. Sounds like you all had a lovely Australia Day,, They seem to get better each year I am in need of a coffee so back later Love Mary xxx

Evening Wattlers. A great day was had by all in Melb. Barbie was lit at 6:30pm ( when the flies went to bed ) and the decking was full with laughter and chatter. We reminissed about when my girls were little, and they recalled certain times in there lives as teenagers in the 80s and how i was so strict. Teena ( the eldest ) now 34 years old, told me that she was to scared to bring boys home when she was 16 because i would give them the evil eye.....lol But a great day as always, and at 9:00pm we all walked to the Council gardens ( two blocks away ) and the band was rockin & a reelin. Wilbure Wilde,Frankie J Holden, Russell Morris all belted out familiar 60s and 70s songs on stage and about 500 - 600 baby boomers were bopping to the rythme on the lawns surrounding the stage At 9:45 when it was dark, the fireworks display had the grandkids screaming with delight, as sky rocket after sky rocket lit up the night sky for about half an hour, and my grandaughter sat on my shoulders, ripping whats left of my hair out, as the sky rockets exploded.....lol We all came back and sat on the decking for Coffee and Xmas cake, and the kids with there Frog jelly moulds that granma Barb had made for them,and even though my decking is the size of a small house, i realised today that there will be a decking extention coming up in the near future, as my family is growing by the year Now its time for a Poppy and Nanna nap, cos we is knackered. Hope you all had a great Australia Day. Tony Oz.....:>)))

Oooopppss! Took out one too many posts. But you still can't pick on Merle untill she gets as crazy as the rest of us.......heee heee. This site is playing up tonight. think I might got t0o bed. I was heading there about an hour ago but didn't quite make it. Hugz to all Trifley X

Evening all - just in from bobbing around on the lake for Ozzie Day. I think I got a bit too much sun though. After the 'sail' past we were allowed to stay on the lake and watch the fireworks. best seat in the house. :) Glad everyone had a nice day. Hope thems down the coast had a nice one also :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vonny

Evening all Hope everyone had a lovely Australia Day. We were at the early morning celebrations - very foggy and even a bit of rain so they couldn't release the doves and they couldn't have the old planes fly over but no one cared cause the rain was great! Then visited various rellies for the remainder of the day so it was just beaut. See you all tomorrow. X Anna

See, says she smugly, you'll have to be nice to me now. \Night all.

SuzyQ.....I've found out how to get rid of that bl***y Internet Explorer 7. You go into your Add/Remove programme in your control panel. Scroll down to where it say 'Windows Explorer 7' and hit 'Remove'. It will then take it off and your puta will revert to the previous Explorer. I've just done it and noticed a vast improvement in the speed. I'll email you in case you don't get on here for a while. Hugz Trifley X

Yes suzy I did but its so small cant read it and havent figured out how to get it so I can read it. I've got new glasses too and much to familys disgust have gone back to big ones. I hated being able to see over the top of them G D's feel I've let the side down. Tough. We've had a very quiet day but I've got a lovely roast leg of Mutton in the oven just cooking slowly. Smells georgeous. Life neally got a bit interesting earlier, I caught my foot on the stepladder I use to rest my foot on while talking to you lot and managed to gracefully???? pirouette myself round far enogh to fall on the bed. AND before anyone asks why a stepladder it's because the second step is just the right height so there!I I've only got a little flag so stuck it in the flowerpot near the front door and its been bravely blowing in the wind all day. Have got a few toots from passing cars and the noongar family next door even wished me a good Australia day so feel I've done my bit. Any of you girls nurses or used to be's? I was ,and was a volunteer at the hospice for 14years till himself got sick and it was a bit too close to home but I agree with Tony, Men are the biggest sooks ever. Mind you I still think theyre easier to nurse. You can bully them into doing what you want, husbands excepted ,but if you tried the same tactics on women they'd report you as soon as look at you. Mostly anyhow.I loved my time at hospice. Theres no time there to waste making a fuss, what you see is what you get and I heard all sorts of things they wouldn't tell their family members.Sorry, didn't mean to go into all that bnut now you know where my heart is in this big wide world.

Happy Australia Day my Wattle friends. I hope that you are all enjoying the day. We are just relaxing at home. The last 2 days we have been out. On Wednesday I went to get my glasses fixed. You will be please to know that they they are now sitting squarely on my face not lopsided any more. We then had a picnic lunch on the Southport spit, followed by the weekly shopping. Naturally I forgot to get the lotto, so I had to go out yesterday morning for that very important task. At the same time I got a duckling for Neville's birthday dinner on Saturday. Well we thern decided to go out the Maroon dam, so packed up the barbie, snags eggs bacon etc and had a very quiet time at a very dry dam. That is until the storm came. It teamed down, so heavy that it shook the car. I must say the drive home was much cooler and the air was much fresher. A couple of questions. Some one mentioned that installing the new Internet Explorer had slowed down their puta. That must be what has happened to mine. I do like the new one, but I hate it being slow, so how do I go back to the old one? Google Earth? I downloaded it, supposedly the latest version, but the view of my house is at least 3 years old. How do I get up to the minute pictures? Do I have to pay for it? Lara, its good that you seem to be back to your normal self. I wish I was as strong as you when it comes to loosing weight. Neville and I are going to try the CSIRO diet, I have done a similar one before, which was easy for me and it worked. Do you pray at the feet of your Barb every night Tony? Well you should, but then I bet you think you are the best prize of all. LOL Trifley, glad you enjoyed your little holiday, I am sure it would have been much cooler up there. It is very hot again today, the humidity is shocking. Merle, did you get the Wattle List? Everyone else, hope you are all well. It won't be long before the good Dr is back, she will keep us entertained for weeks. I am looking forward to all the pickles. Well, I am just going for a cooling glass of iced water. Will look in later Luv SuzyQ

Afternooon Wattlers on this lovely day. Mum and Dad have not long left, we had a good barbie and they was quite impresed with our purchase, only barbie they have ever owned, and still do it a small 3 legged portable one, but it does the job and has been everwhere with them. We was treated to a special dessert, Mum did a home made Cheesecake and bought with them it was beeeaaaauuutifulllll :-))))))) David is still scratching about on the roof. removing to rust before painting. Eldest daughter asked if this is what everyone does on Australia Day ......... Cleans house as I was running around making sure place was spic and span for the parents, and David cleaning the roof lol Couldnt help myself but I had to have a giggle :-)))))) Youngest wasnt too impressed as she was woken (after 9.30am) by what she thought was next door sawing wood, then I told her it was David on the roof hee hee. I wanted her out of bed anyway so I could change the sheets on her bed :-) Lara glad you are feeling a bit better and stick to it, you will be better for it, I know it sounds a long time but just forget about the weeks and just focus on each day. I think it took me about 5 months to get where I did. I wont tell you I have put on a couple of kg's :-( have to start drinking water and walking again, now that chrissy and holidays are over with. Cheers Sue

Arvo....:>)) Bewdiful day in Melb. The Barbies clean. The fridgy didge is chockers, and the chops are marinating. My Ozzie flag ( Boxing Kangaroo ) is tied up to the gable, and me favourite John Williamson cd. is playing. I have a cold V.B in one hand, and now just waiting for the hungry hoard to come, and to park there cars on the nature strip. Lara. Hee hee...No need to say sorry mate. Us blokes are the worst patients.We hate being crook, as it cramps our style........Golf....Fishing....Football......Boating.....lol Yes, sometimes i slit the meat and put garlic and rosemary in. Oooops..Sarah has just arrived home with 3 girlfriends, so better thaw out a few more snags, and hide me wallet.....lol Av a good un. Tony Oz...:>))