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Love Letters to Maggie.

GSQ Blog Posted on March 28, 2022 by Bobbie EdesMarch 28, 2022

This tale begins with the landing in Brisbane of the vessel Ariadne on 3 January 1864, that turbulent year for the city with two major fires in Queen Street.[1]  One of the passengers on Ariadne was James Carothers, a young 19 yr old lad from Fermanagh.[2] The young lad worked hard and by 1870 he had established a farm at Bulimba Point; Bulimba had been serviced since 1850 by Samuel and Matthew Buckley operating a rowing boat. In 1864, John … Continue reading

Posted in Brisbane, Bulimba, Co Down, family history, Ireland, Irvine family, Irvine family, Killyleagh, local history, Uncategorised

Accentuate the Positive – 2021 (in Jan 2022).

GSQ Blog Posted on January 17, 2022 by Bobbie EdesJanuary 17, 2022

Many years ago Jill Ball set a January challenge on GeniAus for a yearly blog to Accentuate the Positive – 2021 and this one in January 2022 is my 4th yearly effort.  The challenge has 20 set points to cover, however I have used a few challenge points from past years to replace those that haven’t fitted my year. I encourage readers to check back next week for Pauline’s challenge. I got the most joy from – In 2021 I … Continue reading

Posted in Accentuate the Positive challenge, blog, blogging, family history, genealogy, Genealogy challenge, Geniaus, GSQ, Jill Ball

Andrew Gilmore Irvine: A bootmaker from Killyleagh.

GSQ Blog Posted on August 23, 2021 by Bobbie EdesAugust 23, 2021

The fourth pregnancy of Sarah Irvine in the farming community of Ballytrim townland was no doubt a difficult time for her with three surviving children aged eight, four and two around her feet as this time her pregnancy felt different.[1] Husband James was a bootmaker in the nearby village of Killyleagh on the shores of Strangford Lough in Co Down and when Sarah gave birth to twins on 31 March 1849 it would have called on all the strength and … Continue reading

Posted in Bobbie Edes, Brisbane, Irvine family, Killyleagh

Precious items evoke precious memories.

GSQ Blog Posted on May 30, 2021 by Bobbie EdesMay 30, 2021

Not all our heirlooms are photos, china, jewellery etc.  This is the story of one of my precious items, a piece of furniture lovingly crafted by my father for his future family home, just prior to my parents’ marriage in 1939. Some of the items Dad made included a sideboard, a china cabinet, a dining room suite, telephone table with attached seat (almost retro style), a lovely double bed suite with matching duchess[1] and stool. In many of the items … Continue reading

Posted in Bobbie Edes, Family, Furniture, heirlooms, Sideboard, Treasures

Francis Irvine – Immigrant, Bootmaker, Shopkeeper & Baptist elder.

GSQ Blog Posted on March 22, 2021 by Bobbie EdesMarch 23, 2021

By Rod Irvine. Edited by Bobbie Edes Within our Killyleagh siblings, the eldest two brothers John (b 1841) and Francis (aka Frank, b 1844) were likely responsible for the Irvine family coming to Queensland; they were the ‘trend-setters’.[1]&[2] On Saturday 13 May 1865, just as the American Civil War was in its final convulsions, they departed Liverpool on the modern clipper Melmerby arriving at Brisbane in September of that year.[3] It is not unlikely that John and Francis heard directly … Continue reading

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