AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

L is for Lilian My third cousin four times removed, who was also the sister-in law of my third great uncle, was Dr Lilian Helen Alexander (1861-1934), one of the first woman doctors in Australia. Lilian was the se…

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social
Day 31, LILIAN HELEN ALEXANDER 1861-1934, my third cousin four times removed. I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/l...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

Remembering Helena Gill drowned 10 July 1932 Eighty-nine years ago Helena Lucy Gill née Hughes, my second-great-grand-aunt, drowned when the SS Casino sank in Apollo Bay, Victoria. She was 65 years old. Helena was the second youngest of eight…

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social
Day 30,
HELENA LUCY (HUGHES) GILL 1866 – 1932, my second-great-grand-aunt I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2021/07/09/r...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

Triangulating Matilda’s DNA Three years ago my husband Greg and I sent off our DNA for analysis. There were three family history puzzles I thought DNA techniques might solve. One concerned the parents of Greg’s great grandfat…

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart
@genstack.bsky.social

29 March : MATILDA FRANCES (DARBY) SULLIVAN 1845-?, my husband's great great grandmother. I wrote about her at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2019/06/15/t...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

B is for the barque Bloomer arrived 1854 My husband’s great great grandmother Caroline Ralph (1850-1896) came to Australia at the age of four with her parents, Francis Ralph (1823-1915) and Caroline née Rodgers (1825-1893), and her …

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social
Day 28, CAROLINE (RALPH) EDWARDS 1850-1896, my husband's third great grand aunt I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/b...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

X, her mark, revisited I have no forebears whose names begin with X, but ‘X, his mark’ on a document seems close enough. Making an X is not a reliable way of identifying yourself, of course, and from time to …

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social
Day 27, ELIZA (SKERRIT) DAWSON 1838-1899, my husband's great great grandmother I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2018/04/27/x...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

E is for Eliza My husband’s great great grandmother – one of them – was Eliza Morley née Sinden (1823 – 1908). Eliza was born about 1823 in Cuckfield, West Sussex, to William Sinden (c. 18…

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social
Day 26, ELIZA (SINDEN) MORLEY 1823-1908, my husband's husband's great great grandmother.I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2018/04/05/%...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

M is for Arrival in Melbourne of the Persian in 1854 Western End of Queens Wharf Melbourne 1854 by S.T. Gill retrieved from MossGreen auctioneers Ellen Murray (1837 – 1901) and Margaret Smyth (1834 – 1897), two of my husband’s great…

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25 March MARGARET (SMYTH) PLOWRIGHT 1834-1897, my husband's great great grandmother I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/m...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

The 1898 will of Ellen Cross In May 1898, three years before her death, my husband Greg’s great great grandmother Ellen Cross née Murray (1836–1901) made a will providing for her unmarried daughters and leaving two speci…

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Day 24, ELLEN (MURRAY) CROSS 1836-1901, my husband's great great grandmother I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2022/10/18/t...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

Immigration on the Trafalgar in 1854 of John Way and Sarah née Daw John Way (1835 – 1911) and Sarah Way née Daw (1837 – 1895) came to Australia on the Trafalgar.  They arrived in South Australia on 28 June 1854 having left Plymouth on 6 March.They had …

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23 March SARAH (DAW) WAY 1837-1895, my husband's great great grandmother. I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/i...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

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22 March ELIZA (CHAMPION CRESPIGNY) VIVIAN 1784-1831, my fifth great aunt I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/g...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

A Passage to India On 20 April 1813 Emily Crespigny Hindes was baptised in the church of St Mary-le-Tower at Ipswich, Suffolk. The name of Emily’s mother was given as Emily Hindes. The infant Emily’s seco…

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21 March EMILY CRESPIGNY (HINDES) WYMER 1813-1891, my third great grand aunt I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2019/11/27/a...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

A short life; peaceful rest. My husband Greg’s great grandmother Sarah Jane Way, daughter of John Way and Sarah Daw, was born in 1863 at Barborah Creek, near Murrumburrah, New South Wales. She was the fifth of John and Sarah&#…

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Day 19, SARAH JANE (WAY) YOUNG 1863-1898, my husband's great grandmother I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2024/05/05/a...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

N is for Norfolk sampler A typical Norfolk field in summer with poppies and daisies in abundance. Taken near Fring. All Saints’ church in Fring from the driveway to Church Farm. My husband Greg says he has a great nu…

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social
18 March ELLEN ELIZABETH (JACKSON) CLAXTON 1792-1875, my husband's third great grand aunt I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2022/04/16/n...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

J is for Julia Morris nee Hickey (1817 – 1884) On 6 December 1840 Julia Hickey, aged 23 arrived at Adelaide, South Australia, on the “Birman” which sailed from Greenock 23 August 1840. She was travelling with her sister Mary, 21, an…

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social
Day 17, JULIA (HICKEY) MORRIS 1817-1884, my third great grand aunt I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/j...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

A picnic in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens I don’t have a favourite photograph but I appreciate the photograph collection of my parents-in-law. I can remember sitting down with my father-in-law Peter Young (1920-1988) and asking him w…

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social
Day 16 ELIZABETH (CROSS) YOUNG 1900-1949, my husband's grandmother I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2018/01/14/a...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

M is for Manpower, Mills, Malaria, and Marjorie, my Mother-in-Law from Melbourne My mother-in-law, Marjorie Young née Sullivan (1920-2007), supported me in my family history research. We would often talk about her family history and when I compared her reminiscences I found tha…

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Day 15,
MARJORIE WINIFRED (SULLIVAN) YOUNG 1920-2007, my husband's mother, my mother-in-law I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/m...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

P is for Penelope Last year I wrote about how the children of my sixth great grandparents Constantine Phipps (1746-1797 and Elizabeth Phipps nee Tierney (1749-1832) were stranded in France during the French Revoluti…

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social
14 March PENELOPE (PHIPPS) JOHNSON 1775-1814, my third great grand aunt I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2018/04/18/p...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

Z is for Zizenhausen In 1880, when my great great grandparents Agathe Maria Lang and Matthias Manock were married in Karlsruhe, Agathe provided this information for their marriage certificate: She had been born in Zize…

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social
Day 13, AGATHE MARIA (LANG) MANOCK 1852-1926, my great great grandmother I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2022/04/30/z...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

R is for Rosina One of my husband’s maternal great aunts was Rosina Doidge née Sullivan formerly Saunders (1889-1969). She was the second child of Henry Sullivan (1863-1943) and Anne Sullivan née Morley (186…

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social
Day 12. ROSINA (SULLIVAN) DOIDGE 1889-1969, my husband's great aunt I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2018/04/20/r...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

Photograph albums from great great aunt Rose A few weeks ago I received an email from my father’s cousin, the son of my great aunt Nancy Movius nee Champion de Crespigny (1910-2003), offering me the custody of several collections of photograp…

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social.
Day 11, HELEN ROSALIE (CHAMPION CRESPIGNY) BEGGS 1858-1937, my great great aunt I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2022/12/23/p...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

J is for John O’Groats The village of John O’Groats, on the north-eastern tip of mainland Scotland, is 876 miles from Land’s End, on the western tip of Cornwall. Some of our ancestors lived at John O’Gr…

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social
Day 10, MARGARET (BUDGE) CUDMORE 1845-1912, my great great grandmother I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/j...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

V is for vivacious Vida on the vamp Vida Goldstein was a feminist and suffragist and one of the first four women in the British Empire to be nominated and to stand for election to a national parliament.

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social .
Day 9, VIDA JANE MARY GOLDSTEIN 1869-1949, my first cousin three times removed I wrote about her at V is for vivacious Vida on the vamp open.substack.com/pub/anneyoun...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

Q is for Queenscliff in 1882 In October 1877 my great great grandmother Annie Frances Chauncy (1857-1883) married Philip Champion de Crespigny (1850-1927). At the time of their marriage Philip was the manager of the Bank of Vi…

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Day 8 ANNIE FRANCES (CHAUNCY) CHAMPION CRESPIGNY 1857-1883, my great great grandmother I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2017/04/19/q...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

Sepia Saturday: Emil and Helene Manock at the piano This week’s Sepia Saturday prompt is a photograph of two people at a piano. Here is a photograph of my great grandparents Helene née Peters (1889 – 1944) and her husband Emil Manock (18…

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Day 7 HELENE AUGUSTE MINNA (STERN) MANOCK 1889-1944, my great grandmother I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2014/02/08/s...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

G is for great grandmother from Germany My great grandmother, the mother of my maternal grandfather, was Hedwig Anna Bertha (known as Anna) Boltz née Bertz (1885 – 1961).Anna was born at Trechwitz near Götz fifty-five kilometers ea…

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social
Day 6, HEDWIG ANNA BERTA (BERTZ) BOLTZ 1885-1961, my great grandmother I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/g...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

Trove Tuesday: Kathleen Cavenagh dressed for a children’s ball in 1887 This is Kathleen Cavenagh, my great grandmother (1874-1951), in her costume for a children’s ball in 1887. She was dressed as “My Little Sweetheart”. Seven hundred children attended the mayoral bal…

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social
5 March : KATHLEEN MARY (CAVENAGH) CUDMORE 1874-1951, my great grandmother. I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/t...

The Genealogy Biography Writer

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1 year ago

#Ancestral_Women
Here is the biography of my 2nd great-grandmother. She was the Cincinnati Strongman's sister. biographywriter.com/the-cincinna...
#genealogy, #history #womenshistory

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

B is for Beatrix One of my great grandmothers was Beatrix Champion de Crespigny née Hughes (1884-1943). She was born on 23 April 1884 in Ascot Vale, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, the eldest child of Edward Walte…

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social
Day 4, BEATRIX (HUGHES) CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY 1884-1943, my great grandmother I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2018/04/02/b...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

Remembering my grandmother on her birthday My maternal grandmother, Charlotte Boltz née Manock, second daughter of Emil Manock (1883 – 1966) and Helene Manock née Peters (1889 -1944), was born in Berlin, Germany, on 24 May 1912. She died in…

#Ancestral_Women 31-Day Challenge suggested by Robin Stewart @genstack.bsky.social .
Day 3, CHARLOTTE HEDWIG (MANOCK) BOLTZ 1912-1988, my maternal grandmother. I wrote about her in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2020/05/24/r...

AnneYoungAu

@anneyoungau.bsky.social

1 year ago

Kathleen Cudmore: a Memoir Kathleen Cudmore: a Memoir by Rafe de Crespigny Kathleen Cavenagh née Cudmore was born on 27 June 1908, the second daughter and second child of Arthur Murray Cudmore (1870-1951) and his wife Kathle…

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Day 2 KATHLEEN CAVENAGH (CUDMORE) SYMES 1908-2013, my grandmother. My father wrote about her in a memoir published in my online research journal at anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2017/01/01/k...