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Better Google communication

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At the Bridging the Past & Future Congress held in Sydney in March this year, Lisa Louise Cooke kindly agreed to do a blog post for GSQ.  Google search expert Lisa Louise Cooke provides genealogists with three ways to improve Google search results. See how these small improvements can make a big difference in your own genealogy Google searches! Lisa Louise Cooke Imagine traveling to a foreign country where a different language is spoken. It would be very difficult indeed … Continue reading

Rosetta Johnson: a strong woman

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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

From the archives: Tombstones

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The following article first appeared in Generation, Vol 3, No 2 in December 1980, by EN Jacke, Cranbrook, North Queensland. The grave of FRANCIS JOHN EARL is the oldest marked existing grave in North Queensland, north of Bowen. The grave together with two others is thankfully well hidden at the base of the ranges, west of Townsville, and thus has escaped the attentions of the weekend marksman and the yahoo trail bike rider! Francis John Earl’s death was the seventh … Continue reading

The Wreck of the Undine 1900: is your German ancestor here?

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by Stephanie Ryan State Library of Queensland stephanie.ryan@slq.qld.gov.au The story of this particular shipwreck was given some exciting names in the newspapers: Romance of the sea, That strange story of the sea, A tale of the sea: a mystery explained. What happened and why should we be interested? The Undine, a German barque, built in 1867, owned by Messrs. Wachsmuth and Krugmann, of Hamburg, was bringing heavy timber from the west coast of North America to Falmouth, England.  She was … Continue reading

So your ancestor was a jockey…

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by Bob McAllister Great Uncle Henry, known to the rest of the world as Squib Suddaby, had been a jockey. As a four-year-old, that meant nothing to me but it was apparently the explanation for why a cranky little man was always sitting in that strange crouch on a stool in the corner of my great-grandmother’s kitchen. Half a century later, searches in the Trove newspaper archive confirmed that H J Suddaby had indeed been a jockey. His name appeared … Continue reading