Category Archives: Family History
Private Robert Forsyth – 1st Gordon Highlanders
Private Robert Forsyth, service number 817, enlisted in the 1st Gordon Highlanders at New Maud, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Robert Forsyth was born on the 3rd of February 1895 at Aberdour, Aberdeenshire, Scotland to John Gill Forsyth and Jane nee Birnie. He was the younger brother of George Forsyth who also died in WW1. Photo of Robert’s memorial …
Edward “King” Hulme, (1818 – 1904) “A settlers 35 Years Experience in Victoria, Australia 1856-1891”
My 3rd great grand uncle, Edward “King” Hulme, (1818 – 1904) wrote a small book called “A settlers 35 Years Experience in Victoria, Australia 1856-1891” I am lucky to have a copy that my Mum found online some years ago. Below are a couple of excerpts from the book. Introduction In giving this little “Life …
Mysterious David Adams Found
I have been trying to find my grandmother’s paternal Uncle for so many years now I can’t remember how long. See “Whatever happened to David Adams” David Adams was the only child of George Adams and Catherine Barry whose death and further life movements we hadn’t yet found. Christine Stafford nee Adams, my 3rd …
Private Ambrose Percival TUCKETT
Private Ambrose Percival TUCKETT Ambrose Percival Tuckett was born the youngest of 7 children in Nathalia, Victoria in March 1894 to parents Thomas George Tuckett and Alice nee Fleming. On the 1st of March 1916, he married Violet Maude Gibb at Parkville in Victoria. Ambrose enlisted in the A.I.F. on the 3rd of October 1916 at …
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 11: Lucky – Crusader to New Zealand
In December 1874, Captain Renaut sailed his ship The Crusader into Lyttleton Harbour, New Zealand with 374 passengers on board. The Crusader departed from Plymouth on the 25th of September and made the passage in 97 days with very little illness reported. The surgeon-superintendent was Dr. John Guthrie who settled in Christchurch. On the voyage Dr …
Strong Woman
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 10: Strong Woman There are plenty of strong women in my family tree even though they may not think so. Some of their stories are heartbreaking, all are inspiring. Most inspiring to me at the moment is my first cousin Denys in New Zealand. Denys and I didn’t know …
Herbert Hulme’s Will
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 9 – Herbert Hulme’s Will Herbert Joseph Hulme photo from the album of my maternal grandmother Daisy Fleming nee Morgan. The theme for week 9 of the 52 Ancestors challenge is “Where there’s a Will”. My grandmother’s maternal Uncle Herb was born Herbert Joseph Hulme at Oxley, Victoria …
Heirloom
Click on the link below to read my contribution to Week 8 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 weeks challenge. 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 8: Heirloom
Fine record of service
My maternal Great-Grand-Uncle Thomas Fitzherbert MORGAN and his wife Sarah MCNAY were married in Victoria in 1894. Thomas was born at Euroa in 1868, Sarah at Moonee Ponds in 1873. They had eleven children born between 1895 and 1918, eight boys and three girls who, all except one of the girls who died of Meningitis at the age …
Mystery photo of unknown gentleman possibly solved?
Recently, after a discussion with a cousin, I had cause to revisit an old mystery photo from New Zealand. This discussion jogged my memory of an email I had received in June 2015 after a query to the Alexander Turnbull Library about the photo. Fancy forgetting about it for that long. My only excuse is …
Kerryn's Kin 