Dear Thomas, I write to you from the year 2016. We’ve never met but I hope you know that I think about you all the time. Your sister, Kitty, is my Great Grandmother which makes you my 2nd Great Uncle. As I write this letter, the anniversary of your disappearance steadily approaches. On the 16 September 2016, it will …
While drafting a blog post relating to my 2nd Great Grandfather, Jesse Wallace, I consulted the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) Employment Records on Ancestry in the hope that they would have his employment information and details of when he started working for them. With the document found and the start date confirmed I became distracted by the word ‘updated’ next …
Last year I visited a lovely lady who’s the niece of Jessie Knight; my Great Grandmother’s (Kitty Barratt nee Crampton) best friend. It was amazing chatting with someone so closely related to Jessie and who (through the connection) knew of my Great Grandmother. We ended up looking through some of her family photos and I showed her the …
To all the readers and followers of Finding Family, thank you for all your support throughout 2015. It’s greatly appreciated. I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year with your families. Here’s hoping there’s many more genealogical discoveries in 2016! Image source: 1954 ‘[No heading].’, The Australian …
It’s hard to imagine what was going through Enoch Pearson Barratt’s mind as he sat in chains on the ship, William Jardine, en route to an alien land thousands of miles from England and thousands of miles from his wife and children. Perhaps he wondered whether he’d ever see them again. Perhaps he feared for …
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