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, 2025 …. Week 5.
Theme: Challenge. My second cousin Peter John Hunt (1929-2012) was a surveyor on the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1960–61), He received the Polar Medal and RGS Sir Cuthbert Peek award in 1969. Hunt Mountain (3660m) in Antarctica was Read more
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52 Ancestors …. Week 4
Theme: Overlooked. When I first started investigating my maternal grandparents’ line, it was known that my Great Grandparents Edwin Hunt and Margaret Morgan and their large family had emigrated to Australia from Berkshire in 1879, and that he had two Read more
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52 Ancestors – Week 3, 2025
Theme: Nickname I am late with this – I couldn’t think of anything new to write about concerning my family’s or my husband’s family’s various nicknames – nothing very startling or unusual – but then I remembered….. I once owned Read more
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52 Ancestors – Week 2, 2025.
Theme: Favourite Photo. This photo shows my Aunt Betty and my mother Vada d’Archy in the grounds of their home in Toowoomba, Queensland. It must have been taken soon after their father Dick d’Archy left to fight in the First Read more
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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 1, 2025
Theme: In the Beginning. I have decided to take up the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge again – I completed almost every week in 2023 but only the first few months in 2024. 2025 presents a whole new list Read more
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52 Ancestors ….. Week 22.
Topic: Creativity My mother “Vada” (d’Archy) Johnston was always very clever with her hands. A stay-at-home mother like most of her contemporaries, she was always knitting, crocheting or sewing something. She used to make all her own and my dresses. Read more
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