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 2024 ….Week 4.
Topic: Witness to History. In 1885 Queen Victoria of England and her daughter Princess Beatrice spent some time at Aix-Les-Bains, a thermal spa town on Lake Bourget in the Savoie, eastern France. On April 14 it was Princess Beatrice’s birthday; the town was gaily decorated with flags and the previous evening there was a display… Read more
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52 Ancestors 2024 … Week 3.
Topic: Favorite Photo. This photo is of my late mother in law, Joy Hoffmann, and our beloved cat Minou who lived to 19. Take on board our boat in Pittwater, NSW, Australia, about 1975. Although the following story is a sad one, I still love this photo for the peaceful happy time it represents. Joy… Read more
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52 Ancestors …. Week 2 (2024)
Theme: Origins. (“Genealogists often get the question, “Where is your family from?” With this week’s theme, you could explore an immigrant ancestor, but you could also think about the origin of other aspects of your family. Who was the first person in your family to settle in a particular town? If you have a long… Read more
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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – NEW Series for 2024.
Week 1 – Theme: Family Lore. Unsubstantiated family legend recorded by my Great Great Grandfather Thomas Hunt’s grandson Edwin Herbert Hunt 1866-1921 says that Thomas was a cousin to Lord and Lady Henry Somerset. Further, it was said that when the Earl of Somers died without heirs, Thomas’ eldest son Reuben 1824-? was forbidden to… Read more
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52 Ancestors … Week 52 for 2023
Topic: Me, Myself and I I was christened Nancy Vada Johnston – Nancy for my mother’s sister Nancy Elizabeth d’Archy (always known as Betty) and Vada for my mother Lillian Vada d’Archy (always known as Vada). Where did Auntie Bet as we all called her, get her names? Elizabeth for one of her own aunts,… Read more
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52 Ancestors …. Week 51
Topic: Cousins! Most people seem to have a number of first cousins and many seconds and thirds, but my father Warwick Johnston had a lone brother who died as a baby, and my mother Vada d’Archy had one sister who never married. Consequently I have no first cousins. My maternal grandmother Lily Hunt 1876-1946 came… Read more
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