By Sharyn Merkley. You know the feeling; the one when you find something and get that prickly scary feeling, and your eyes moisten for a moment. The hazy line between us and the past falls away just for a second. Perhaps you’ve been looking forever for that one link, that one record that solves the problem, or maybe it’s finally a blurry image of the one person that has eluded you for years. Well, imagine if that image is crisp … Continue reading
Using Colonial Correspondence files at Queensland State Archives By Janice Cooper. This correspondence was the key to finding the Certificate of Exhumation for William Yung/Young Sing’s body.[1] Detail about the return of his remains to his homeland added significant detail to his life story. William had died and been buried in the Jericho Cemetery within a year of moving to the railway terminus to establish a hotel there. The letter was located at Queensland State Archives by using the Registers … Continue reading
My late mother in law often spoke fondly of her Grandma Daley who she loved and greatly admired. In researching her life, I soon came to realise that she had faced many challenges, heartache and tragedy during her life. Lilian Tregenza Delve was born 11 May 1879 in St Johns Wood, Middlesex, England to John Hockridge Delve and his second wife Jane Downing Tregenza.1 Joy turned to tragedy when Jane died just 9 days later. Within a year, her father … Continue reading
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
Many years ago, my aunt told me a story in which she remembered sitting in a car in a car park while her father visited someone in an adjoining building. She wondered why she could not go with him, but her father made it clear he was going alone. She learnt later that she was outside the Goodna Mental Asylum where her father was visiting his older brother William Alexander Dorsey Bell. This story lingered in my mind so a … Continue reading
