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 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 his hometown, as evidenced by some early paintings. Subsequent paintings in a series of sketchbooks… 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 1868 when his father was 39. My Father Warwick was born in 1912 when his… 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 year later they had the first of their ten children, Fanny Elizabeth Hunt, on 25… 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 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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