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 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 change their surname although of course they would still be blood descendants. My daughter Nicole… 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 out of Wellington and we could not source a new hose until we got to… Read more
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52 Ancestors – Week 23.
Topic: So Many Descendants. My Great Great Grandfather Henry Prendergast (1813-1867) married Mary Costello (1812-1902) in February 1832 in Tuam, Galway. They had ten children, of whom seven survived. The whole family emigrated to Australia on the “Pestonjee Bomanjee” in 1854 and their last child was born in Australia. As far as I can ascertain,… Read more
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52 Ancestors … Week 22
Topic: At the Cemetery. When I first saw my Great Grandfather Frederick Wentworth Wade’s grave in the beautiful old St. Johns Cemetery in Invercargill NZ, it had several well-weathered blocks of marble inscribed with his name and dates 1838-1912, his second wife Ada Gresham Macloskey’s name and dates 1858-1931, and on top the remains of… Read more
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52 Ancestors – Week 21.
The topic for this week is BRICK WALL I have one mysterious ancestor, my GGGF Thomas Darchy, born February 1820 in Augsburg Bavaria. Thomas Darchy, a wealthy young man aged 19 with mysterious antecedents, arrived unaccompanied in Adelaide, Australia in 1839 on board the “India”. Several family legends claim that he was the son of… Read more
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52 Ancestors – Week 20.
The theme is ; BEARDED. All the ancestral male portraits which I have show bearded gentlemen. One favourite is my Great Grandfather Alexander Johnston (1829 – 1906). How I acquired his portrait is a story in itself. When I first started genealogy I knew little about my father’s family. I knew his father, a younger… Read more
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