For some time now, Deb, our GSQ Archivist and I have been working on developing a new blogs page, which will be linked to the main GSQ website as it currently is. The domain page is available, and for the last three weeks we have been setting it up alongside our other work. We are hoping the new GSQ Blogs page will go live in the coming week. As this is the case, we hope that you don’t … Continue reading
Bridget Connare, survived the worst of the Great Irish Famine, as a ‘pauper’ in Loughrea Workhouse, County Galway. She was one of 4114 Irish Orphan Girls carefully selected by Lieutenant John Henry, the British Emigration Agent for the Colonial Land and Emigration Commission in Ireland, to come to Australia under the Earl Grey Scheme. Between 1848 and 1850, 20 ships arrived in Eastern Australia. Bridget was onboard the Thomas Arbuthnot, of those onboard that vessel 192 stayed in Sydney at … Continue reading
Accentuate the Positives of 2025 Each year GeniAus Jill Ball sets a challenge to fellow genealogists, this is the eighth year I have participated. I feel that no matter how many challenges a single year can throw at you, it is a good point to sit and think about the positive aspects of that year I treasured time spent with my family who are always there to support and do things for me, not only my two daughter and their … Continue reading
I’m Australian born so my experiences of Christmas were quite different to those I had during my time spent after marriage whilst living in England. Hubby was in the Royal Navy and at the time of our first winter there, we lived in the Navy ‘patch’ near his posting to HMS Royal Arthur in the midst of the Wiltshire countryside. We had recently upgraded his vehicle from a Morris Mini to a rather sporty Ford Cortina, so packed it up … Continue reading
My mother always enjoyed telling a story and as the year’s end approaches, I am reminded of one of my favourites from her childhood, “Christmas at Grannie Bell’s”. Grannie and Pop Bell were Mum’s maternal grandparents. Grannie’s parents, Gottfried and Augusta Kuhn were of German heritage, having come to the Colony of Queensland as young newlyweds aboard the Herschel in 1873.[1] Grannie, Louisa Theresa Kuhn, was born in Townsville in 1877, the third of their six children.[2] Pop, Charles George … Continue reading
