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Welcome to 2020

GSQ Blog Posted on January 6, 2020 by GSQ AdminJanuary 7, 2020

Happy New Year from all at the Genealogical Society of Queensland.  We’re happy to announce the library will now be open from Tuesday 7 January with normal opening hours of 10am – 3pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday. Our opening hours on a Saturday are 12pm noon – 4pm. Our regular bloggers are now refreshed and keen to submit a new batch of interesting blogs for 2020 beginning next Monday 13 January when member Bobbie Edes takes up Jill … Continue reading

Posted in Genealogical Society of Queensland, Uncategorised | Tagged Family History, GSQ Wishart

The Life and Times of Thomas Curran

GSQ Blog Posted on October 7, 2019 by GSQ AdminOctober 7, 2019

Thomas Curran is my 3-time great grandfather. He lived a full life both in Jersey and Victoria after he moved to Australia in 1852. I visited Jersey earlier this year and saw first hand Toms house and the hotel he operated Here is part of his story Toms portrait in the National Library Australia Tom Curran was born on the 10th Of September in the year of 1827, in the town of St Helier on the Island of Jersey, one … Continue reading

It’s almost Christmas!

GSQ Blog Posted on December 24, 2018 by GSQ AdminDecember 24, 2018

GSQ would like to wish all blog readers a wonderful Christmas and safe and happy new year.  ON THIS DAY – 24 December 1818 –  The Christmas carol Silent Night, composed by Franz Xaver Gruber, is first sung at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, Austria. 1859 -The Order of Council for the separation of Queensland from New South Wales was proclaimed, two weeks after the arrival of Governor Bowen. 1877 – Thomas Edison filed a patent for the phonograph. … Continue reading

Achieving celebrity status – even if it is in a cemetery!

GSQ Blog Posted on December 3, 2018 by GSQ AdminDecember 3, 2018

Most of us go through life hoping that, after our death, we will be remembered in some way, even if only by our children and grandchildren. Some of us may achieve celebrity status or notoriety and buildings, memorials, parks or streets may be named in our honour to acknowledge those achievements, in our lifetime or perhaps shortly after our death. For others, the recognition may take even longer and the form it takes may not be quite what you would … Continue reading

A tale of six Irish sisters (the very condensed version)

GSQ Blog Posted on November 5, 2018 by GSQ AdminNovember 5, 2018

Between 1855 and 1872, six daughters were born to an impoverished Irish family. Five of these sisters left Ireland and made their way across the world with three emigrating to Australia (one returned home to Ireland after 13 years away), two to the United States of America while the sixth sister remained in Ireland. These young women were born in County Carlow (Irish: Ceatharlach, meaning place of cattle) which lies in the south-east of Ireland and is 84km from Dublin. … Continue reading

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