Here are all my previous blogs, mostly covering our caravanning around New Zealand and Australia and some post-caravanning adventures. The first 3 have been transferred to a new Blog heading. So have some family history stories. If I can work out how to delete these I will do so!
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52 Ancestors – Week 28
Theme: Random I have a distantly related great aunt who died aged 13 “of natural causes” in 1906. She was one of 5 children born to George Johnston and Jessie Yuille of St. Rollox, Glasgow. Only two of them survived Read more
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52 Ancestors – Week 27.
Theme: the Great Outdoors. My Grandfather Alex Johnston was a journalist and artist. Born in Tasmania in 1868, as a young man he took off for the wilds of Western Australia, but not before he had explored the scenery around Read more
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52 Ancestors – Week 26.
The topic for this week is ‘SLOW’. Last week I interpreted ‘Fast’ in terms of generations, so this week I’m interpreting ‘Slow’ similarly. Great Grandfather Alexander Johnston was born in 1829. His son my Grandfather Alexander Johnston was born in Read more
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52 Ancestors – Week 25.
Topic for this week: Fast. ‘Fast’ has many meanings. I chose to interpret it as ‘a Fast Breeder’ (!) My GGF Edwin Hunt 1837-1895 married fellow schoolteacher Margaret Morgan 1838-1920 on 19 July 1862 in Reading, Berkshire. Almost exactly one Read more
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52 Ancestors …. Week 24.
The topic for this week is “Last One Standing”. For the purpose of this exercise (only), I chose to interpret this as “The last person with a particular surname descended from a specific ancestor”. Which excludes daughters who marry and Read more
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Dave’s Disaster Discoveries – or Things That Went Wrong – a Summary
By Dave Gibb, with additional comments by Nancy in italics. 2. The highway was closed at Dashwood Pass due to a grape truck rolling over – traffic delayed for approximately five hours. 3. The sewage hose burst at Plimmerton just Read more
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