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A chance discovery!

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My paternal side of the family is Jones from Wales. I struggled over many years to obtain information but failed. In 2006 I made a trip to Wales and obtained the birth certificate of my great grandfather and while there did some research on the family which progressed me along. On returning to home, I still found it difficult to move further back until a chance discovery in an immigration record of the youngest child, Enoch Jones, which opened up … Continue reading

William White – A country lad, railway worker and diary keeper

The bush diggings of a goldfield would not be the ideal place to be giving birth but that was the situation faced by many women in the early days of our Colony. Being Mary White’s eighth babe may have assisted in the prompt arrival of William White on Friday 27 March 1863 but conditions would have been primitive.[1]  William’s father, Henry, was trying his luck in the area near Nerrigundah in Southern New South Wales. This region is part of … Continue reading


Was there nothing this man couldn’t do?

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The man who influenced Alan Philip Frankel If only I had known when I began researching and writing the continuing story of my grandfather, Alan Philip Frankel’s  WW1 service that Blog 2 would be about his father rather than his (Alan’s) own journey from Egypt to the Salisbury Plains in England and then to France. While researching Papa’s war history and gathering information about events in Brisbane and Queensland at the time, it quickly became evident that his father, Philip … Continue reading

Filling gaps with Dead Letter Office lists

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There are gaps in my knowledge of the life of my grandfather Philip Shepherd[1], who died before I was born. One of these gaps lies in the decade between his marriage in November 1882 to Catherine Heffernan in Cometville, on the Central Queensland Railway, and his purchasing of a town allotment in Jericho in the central-west in April 1892. Philip was a carrier so that the building of the railway line west from Rockhampton provided him with work carrying goods … Continue reading

We become what we see!

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For those who know me you know I am a public health microbiologist, a scientist. I have done a number of presentations for Scientists in Schools and had the interesting experience of a young lad about 11 years old very upset with his teacher as he thought they were getting “a proper scientist! Girls can’t be scientists!” It is hugely important that people can see that girls can be scientists, plumbers, doctors, teachers etc and also that this is also … Continue reading

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