Category Archives: Sepia Saturday
Legal Battle – Adams v Adams
I recenlty published this post on my Blogger platform for a 52 ancestors challenge as “A Tough Woman” but it fitted this Sepia Saturday theme so am reposting it here. In Trove I found many years of newspaper articles telling of legal battle of my great grandparents to force my great grandfather to pay child maintenance …
Sepia Saturday 261 – Out of the Ordinary
William Finlay FLEMING An association with impressive facial hair and medically out of the ordinary immediately brought to mind my maternal great great grandfather, William Findlay FLEMING. Myself and a few of our family members have researched his life and even though he initially seemed to be a medical marvel living to such a ripe old age we are now all …
Sepia Saturday 253: Three Miners ….. and more
Three of my great great grand uncles, Michael, Thomas and William Kelly, were miners. They were brothers of my great great grandmother, Alice Morgan nee Kelly (1834-1904) Their parents were Cornelius Kelly and Mary Moloughney of Dualla, Tipperary, Ireland. Michael was born there in 1836, Thomas in 1843 and William in 1846. Michael went to …
Sepia Saturday 252: A different type of cruise
In keeping with the 100th anniversary of ANZACS leaving Australian shores my Sepia Saturday post is about a different type of cruise on which so many of my ancestors sons and brothers embarked. In this post I have mentioned just a few. My paternal grandmother’s brother in law, Bertie Crowl, embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on …
Kerryn's Kin 