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Monthly Archives: May 2018

Rosetta Johnson: a strong woman

GSQ Blog Posted on May 28, 2018 by guestbloggerMay 28, 2018

by Helen Connor Rosetta (Rose) Johnson – Johnston(e) – was born in County Louth, Ireland in about 1773. Rosetta was convicted at the Surrey Assizes – Lent 24 March 1814 [1] and sentenced to “Let them be transported beyond the seas for seven years.” Rose had stolen 18 yards of sheeting, value of seven shillings, and a shawl, value of 30 shillings, in the parish of St George the Martyr in Southwark, aged 29 years. There is no mention of … Continue reading

Looking for a letter: Elizabeth Hardwicke’s (née Chapman) letter to her daughter Maria

GSQ Blog Posted on May 21, 2018 by Sue BellMay 21, 2018

Do many of us who are doing genealogy research think, as we are searching Trove or gazing at microfilm to find that missing link, that one way we may find the answer is to write our story and put it out there on a blog and see whether some distant relative suddenly presents the answer? Sounds far fetched doesn’t it? I certainly thought so when I started to contribute to this blog. Perhaps I was naive because I thought you … Continue reading

Early migrants to South East Queensland

GSQ Blog Posted on May 14, 2018 by Pauline WilliamsMay 14, 2018

As regular readers of this blog will be aware, I wasn’t born in Brisbane, let alone in Australia. At times, I do dip my toes into Australian records, however, and have gradually been picking up more knowledge. As well as my regular activities with GSQ, I also belong to a genealogy group that meets monthly. We take it in turns to set a challenge for the following month and some of these challenges have been awesome in opening our eyes … Continue reading

Posted in context in family history, family histories, Trove | Tagged early Brisbane, Fortitude Valley, Ship Fortitude

Tales my father told me…

GSQ Blog Posted on May 7, 2018 by GSQ AdminMay 8, 2018

There were two things that my father told me about his father, John Charles (Jack) Wood, which intrigued me. One was that John Charles was born on a ship heading to India and the second was that Jack and his brother Percy, who later lived in Persia (Iran) and was a diplomat, wrote to each other in French. When I decided to go overseas in 1975, I tried to find Grandfather Wood’s birth certificate so that I could apply for … Continue reading

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