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24.01.2022 2020 starts with us all commemorating Anzac Day in new and different ways that tradition has dictated for over 100 years. We’ve lined our driveways and listened to the last post on our iPhones. My way of commemorating was spend the day delving back into WWI by accessing Ancestry’s military collection which had free access this weekend. The experience gave me perspective when I needed it - of my current quarantine frustrations versus the life long impact of The Great War. [ 845 more words ] https://sthelenacommunity.com.au//26/100-years-ago-anzac-/

23.01.2022 St Helena Island is both a natural and a cultural landscape. Here, the relationships and interactions of people with nature have physically changed the landscape, and in the process have woven multiple layers of human experience into the environment. The Cultural Heritage that exists on the island is not static though, as it is a dynamic, continuous system of social and cultural life. [ 1,274 more word ] https://sthelenacommunity.com.au//st-helena-island-a-cult/

20.01.2022 A great St Helena story recently appeared in the Brisbane Times ... prisoner Johnny Lennon who was charged with singing in his cell! Journalist Tony Moore approached me to find out the full story and has produced a great article. Terrific to know that these stories still resonate and are enjoyed today.

18.01.2022 100 years ago, Frederick McMunn became the 13th St Helena Penal Establishment prison warder to die whilst employed on the island. Though he lived on St Helena Island at the time of his death on the 21st October 1920, he died in hospital in Brisbane. (1) Frederick was a prisoner warder, a miner, a bachelor and a unionist. He was also brother and brother-in-law to Charlotte and Robert Murrie, whose lives and story we have been exploring in our ‘100 years ago’ series. [ 1,254 more word ] https://sthelenacommunity.com.au//all-in-the-family-sibli/

17.01.2022 St Helena’s history is either unknown of forgotten unless it is shared. I’ve chosen to write stories. Others take to acting out the events of history. Ralph Porter share his love of St Helena through his work as a passionate actor and tour guide and it’s with great sadness that I share news of his death to the St Helena Island community. [ 427 more words ] https://sthelenacommunity.com.au/20//06/vale-ralph-porter/

16.01.2022 Love trying to find news ways of sharing St Helena stories. Fabulous working with QSA to make that possible!

12.01.2022 George Buist, the last know returned soldier arriving at St Helena Island in September 1920 as a warder, was only on the island for 9 months. Not much happened, excepting a miscount of a prisoner at evening muster in C Wing. But his war service deserves a special mention as not too many men met and married their wife and had a child all while on active duty. [ 866 more words ] https://sthelenacommunity.com.au//maltman-soldier-warder-/

12.01.2022 It’s 2020! The beginning of a new decade always brings a sense of excitement and possibility. Psychologically we’re entering a new chapter that seems to be an open book in front of us, waiting to be written in. Numerically 2020 has a nice ring to it through the repetition of numbers. I thought I’d start this year reviving an old, annual tradition from the time I ran the St Helena Island Update Course for tour guides on St Helena. [ 986 more words ] https://sthelenacommunity.com.au//100-years-ago-1920-to-2/

08.01.2022 We could go anywhere, we were only youngsters. We couldn’t go in the stockade, but if there was a warder with you, you could go in. My father’s job...at 9 o’clock at night, he used to go in to the prison and make sure everything was locked up and under control, and I’d go in with him sometimes... we’d go in the front Number 1 gates and then go in between gates and then I’d see the fellows on duty and say hello and then we’d walk back home. [ 961 more words ] https://sthelenacommunity.com.au//we-could-go-anywhere-he/

06.01.2022 Bob Jnr and Fred Murrie’smother Charlotte (nee McMunn) was one of the few women on St Helena Island in the 1910’s. Becoming Senior Warder in 1913 meant Bob Murrie Senior was allocated a small cottage, and was one of the few warders given permission to have his wife and children living with him on St Helena Island. This Mother’s Day, let’s [ 1,012 more word ] https://sthelenacommunity.com.au//100-years-ago-celebrati/

04.01.2022 I have established "The St Helena Community' to indulge in research, writing and the sharing of the fabulous history of St Helena Island, Moreton Bay. My aim is to unearth the lesser known stories of this island so our known history is broader than the handful of stories we currently share. Help me put women and children into the island's past so we can acknowledge all the people who contributed to Australian society in the past. Only then can we build a bigger, accurate future! Belinda Daly

01.01.2022 Bob Murrie Senior is a man of numbers. He was a husband to 3 wives and father to 5 children. He lived in 2 countries, starting life as a Cooper in Scotland before finding his way to Australia. In his long career in the Qld Penal Service he worked in 7 different prisons and Penal Establishments over 34 years. (1) Retiring in 1921 at around 64 years old, he enjoyed 6 more years before dying in 1927, aged 82. [ 997 more words ] https://sthelenacommunity.com.au//100-years-ago-the-large/

01.01.2022 Interesting map of Moreton Bay I’ve not seen before.