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25.01.2022 St Edmunds Church in Dudley (previously Worcestershire, now West Midlands) where my 3x greatparents Simeon and Mary Bradley (nee Mountford) were buried in 1871 and 1891 respectfully. (Their raised tomb is between the church and the tree on the right).

25.01.2022 Tomorrow night .... Tuesday SBS 7.30pm Who Do You Think You Are? Julie Bishop: Former Australian politician, and Australia's first female Foreign Affairs Minister from 2013 to 2018, and deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 2007 to 2018.

24.01.2022 Signed-in users can currently download FREE digital records from the UK National Archives. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

24.01.2022 Who doesn't love walking around cemeteries - taking photos? Here's a story from the USA about eight Eagle Scouts who did an outstanding job with their Eagle Scout projects by leading volunteers in documenting cemeteries with the BillionGraves app on smartphones. https://blog.billiongraves.com/outstanding-eagle-scouts-at/

22.01.2022 On 4 October 1845 Joseph Nathaniel WILBY was born in Moor Street, London to Robert WILBY, (a Licensed Victualler) and Mary FLETCHER. Mary died 3 years later and Robert remarried. Joseph joined the Royal Navy in July 1859 at the age of 13 years and 9 months [although his date of birth was listed as 1844], and in 1861 was a 1st Class Boy aboard HMS ‘Immortalite’. He was discharged by purchase on 23 August 1864. Joseph immigrated to Australia about 1866-1867 and married Margaret... GELLATLY in December 1868. Over the next 15 years they had 9 children (6 living to adulthood). Joseph died on 8 January 1886 at his residence, Bourke-street, Surry Hills. Happy 175th Birthday great, great grandfather. Want to know more about your family? With over 30 years of family history research experience, I know how to get the best out of online genealogy resources, at affordable rates. #genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry

22.01.2022 As Remembrance Day approaches it's time to remember those whose lives were sacrificed, particularly in the two devastating World Wars that blighted the first half of the 20th century. For the next week Findmypast are offering free access to all of their military records. ENDS 12TH NOVEMBER. Findmypast.com.au... Findmypast.co.uk Findmypast.com See more

21.01.2022 MyHeritage is offering free access to all birth records on during the week of July 1016, 2020. https://bit.ly/2ObcC6W

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21.01.2022 Old letters can contain a great deal of information and be an historical treasure. MyHeritage has an amazing story about brothers Dario and Vittorio Israel who sat on an astonishing collection of letters their father had smuggled to them from a Nazi prison during the Holocaust. https://blog.myheritage.com//signed-your-father-in-a-nazi/

21.01.2022 At long last.... If you like "Who Do You Think You Are?" you'll like this. Series 2 of "Every Family Has A Secret" starts Tuesday 22 Sept on SBS at 7.30pm.

21.01.2022 Tomorrow night .... Tuesday SBS 7.30pm Who Do You Think You Are? Cameron Daddo - Australian actor, musician and presenter.

21.01.2022 St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston, Warwickshire, England, where my 3x great grandparents Simeon Bradley and Mary Mountford were married on 28 Feb 1837. I was lucky enough to visit there 180 years later.

19.01.2022 TONIGHT..... SBS 8.30pm My Grandparents' War - Mark Rylance

19.01.2022 The UK National Archives are still offering free downloads of digitised records. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/digital-downloads/

19.01.2022 Memories. St Martin's, Little Waltham, Essex, England. My 4x great grandfather Benjamin Ketley was baptised here in April 1784 (and a couple of his older brothers in the 1770s), and then married here in 1806. All 12 of his children were baptised here between 1807-1828. Most of my 3x great grandfather William Ketley's 9 children were also baptised here between 1845-1863. My 2x great grandfather William Ketley left England in the early/mid 1860s to fight in the NZ Maori War, b...efore settling in Australia, and marrying in NSW in 1876, however... a couple of his sister's children were also baptised at Little Waltham between 1860-1880. It was nice to join a Sunday Service when I was there in 2017 and to remember their 100+ year association over 240 years earlier. See more

18.01.2022 On 3 October 1809 Barbara BRAND was born at Kincardine in Tulliallan Parish, (then part of Perthshire - now Fife), Scotland to David BRAND [DB#1] and Janet FOTHERINGHAM. Barbara married Andrew INNES on 10 March 1839 at Kincardine (Tulliallan Parish), which is just as well because they had a daughter in 1833. Barbara and Andrew (also born in Tulliallan) lived most of their lives in Kincardine; only moving in with their daughter’s family in later life. Barbara died in 1886 and was buried at the old Woodlea Kirk Cemetery in Kincardine. I took delight in finding and cleaning their headstone when I was there in 2017. Barbara was my 4th great grand aunt - a younger sister of my 4th great grandfather [DB#2]. Happy 211th Birthday Barbara.

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17.01.2022 On 12 October 1806 John ASHMORE was born in Houghton Le Spring, Durham, England to Joseph ASHMORE and Mary LAMBTON. John married Jane DALTON on 27 May 1826 at Sunderland, Durham, England, and they had 3 children before Jane died in March 1837. John then married Isabella TATE (nee SNOWDON) before December 1837, and went on to have another 8 children by 1850 (including Isabella’s 2 children from her first marriage. John was a listed as a Coalminer in the1841 Census and a Deputy Overman in 1851. John died in October 1875 at Auckland St. Andrew, Durham. Happy 214th Birthday 3x great grandfather.

17.01.2022 National Archives offer FREE access to digital records. Records include: + First and Second World War records, including medal index cards + Military records, including unit war diaries + Royal and Merchant Navy records, including Royal Marine service records... + Wills from the jurisdiction of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury + Migration records, including aliens registration cards and naturalisation case papers + 20th century Cabinet Papers and Security Service files + Domesday Book https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk//ne/digital-downloads/

17.01.2022 Tonight on SBS at 7.30pm. "Every Family Has A Secret"

17.01.2022 DON'T FORGET... tonight on SBS at 7.30pm. Series 2 of "Every Family Has A Secret"

16.01.2022 On 29 April 1903 my great grandparents David BRAND [DB #5] and Rosetta Josephine BROWN were married at the Presbyterian Church, Balmain, NSW. My previous post about DB #5: www.facebook.com/findyourpast888/posts/1173367783082798 Images: Newspaper clipping from The Sydney Morning Herald - Saturday 9 May 1903.

16.01.2022 Looking up marriages in NSW and found this: 1861 JOHN WATT CARSON and LOUISA SPARKE - SYDNEY. Suppose there could have been a bit of electricity between them?

16.01.2022 Tomorrow night .... Tuesday SBS 7.30pm Who Do You Think You Are? Troy Cassar-Daley: regarded as one of Australian country music's finest singer-songwriters, Troy will finally bridge the gap between his two cultural worlds.

15.01.2022 Who Do You Think You Are? season 11 premieres on SBS on Tuesday 19 May at 7:30pm. Lisa Wilkinson, Bert Newton, Cameron Daddo, Lisa Curry, Denise Scott, Kat Stewart, Julie Bishop and Troy Cassar-Daley. Stick it in your diary.

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11.01.2022 Tomorrow night .... Tuesday SBS 7.30pm Who Do You Think You Are? Lisa Curry - former Australian swimming champion.

11.01.2022 On 27 April 1847 my 2x great grandmother Emma CHEESEMAN was born at Balmain, NSW to John CHEESEMAN and Martha CROFT. Emma married William KETLEY on 11 July 1876 at Waterloo, NSW. In Nana’s Memoirs she wrote [of her Mother’s wedding]: Mum said it was the Thursday night before Good Friday and that it was a beautiful night and she always remembered riding with Dad in the hansom cab in the beautiful light of the full moon. By 1890 they had 6 children; the 2 youngest died in Dec...ember 1894 and January 1895, one of diphtheria and one of typhoid [so Nana said]. Nana’s Memoirs: She was a small woman, slim and neat, about 5ft or 5ft 1 inch high. Grandma always dressed very neatly and wore a bonnet tied with ribbons. She could mix and talk with everyone and they all loved her. When she was 25 years old, she married my Grandfather and when her first child was a baby she went to live at Ryde at the orchard my Grandfather had there. Grandma hated the life on the orchard. She was very much a person who loved life and people and I suppose the loneliness and hard work on the orchard was something she did not like, and in those days Ryde was very isolated and there would have been no conveniences at all there. She told me that the first day she went there to live she walked from the station (which must have been West Ryde as that would have been the nearest) and carried the baby Florence, and if she had a baby she must have had a bag with necessities for the child and when she was nearly there she sat down on the side of the road and cried. Poor tired Gran. When she left there she said, I hope I never see this God-forsaken place again. After William died in 1914 Emma lived with different family members until she went to Balmain to look after her ill sister. When Caroline died, Emma married Caroline’s husband, John Geary, in 1933. Emma was 86 and John was 91. Nana said Gran said it did not look nice living in the same house. Emma died on 28 April 1939. I suppose she was determined to hang on for her 92nd birthday [even though cemetery records list 91 years]. Images: Emma 1865, 1880s, 1907, 1934. Marriage Certificate [not sister Sarah married at the same time].

10.01.2022 Ancestry plans to improve the quality of DNA matches by removing most matches where less than 8cM is shared. Peter from LostCousins estimates that for most people this will mean losing between one-third and one-half of all their matches. The change will take effect at some point during August. See more on https://www.lostcousins.com/newsletters2/latejul20news.htm

10.01.2022 Love the rain Makes a good excuse to sit inside and look up some family history.Love the rain Makes a good excuse to sit inside and look up some family history.

09.01.2022 Do you have ancestors born in England, Scotland or Wales? Want to know who they were but don't know where to start? Ask me. With over 30 years of family history research experience, I know how to get the best out of online genealogy resources, at affordable rates. www.findyourpast.bravesites.com... [email protected] See more

08.01.2022 On 2 November 1917 Janet Hair CRAWFORD died at Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland. She was born at Greenock about 1855, the youngest daughter of Alexander CRAWFORD and Janet WORKMAN. [See www.facebook.com/libbywilliams59/posts/10158627713659723 for more about Alexander]. She was the first wife [aka the wanton woman] of David Jolly BRAND. After DB#4 divorced her in 1881 she went back to Greenock and married Hugh McINTEE on 22 January 1885. She had 2 more children with Hugh. Image: Greenock sign.

08.01.2022 Bored? Have nothing to do this weekend? Go and take some photos at your local cemetery. Cemeteries are one of the most important resources for genealogists, and once they crumble, they and their history are lost forever.

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07.01.2022 On 29 April, we remember Euphemia MEIKLEJOHN (wife of James GRAY) who died in 1841 at Kincardine, Fife (then Perthshire), Scotland, aged 62 years. Unfortunately, I know very little about Euphemia and I think it was rather inconsiderate of her to die just before the 1841 Census. In 2017 I had the pleasure of cleaning her headstone.

07.01.2022 TONIGHT.... SBS 7.30pm Who Do You Think You Are? Bert Newton - Australian media personality "Moonface".

06.01.2022 Robyn, your 3rd great grandfather lived and worked on the Polesden Lacey estate, near Dorking, Surrey, England around 1870-1880s

06.01.2022 On 17 October 1883 my great grandmother Rose Hilda KETLEY was born in a little stone cottage, situated where the Ryde Golf Course is now, to William KETLEY and Emma CHEESEMAN. My Nana [her daughter] said ‘Grandfather had an orchard there and said all the children used to sit under the fruit trees and eat fruit and she [Rose] always said her lovely skin and complexion was due to this.’ Rose married William Albert BRADLEY on 27 April 1905 - the Thursday night before Easter they had 4 children. When my mother was a toddler, Rose would say to her ‘How’s my little puddin’ and pie?’ So, instead of being called Grandmother she was called Pie. And of course, her husband Bert was called as Daddy Pie. Pie died on 30 November 1968. The only great grandparent I knew. Happy 137th Birthday Pie.

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06.01.2022 My 3x great grandfather William KETLEY Snr was baptised at Little Waltham, Essex, England on 30 April 1815. It’s likely he was only a couple of days old at the time. See more about William on my earlier post https://www.facebook.com/findyourpast888/posts/1183563752063201

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05.01.2022 On 25 October 1897 David Jolly (Jollie) BRAND [DB#4] died at The Narrows, Gladstone, Qld, at the age of 45 from a heart attack, where his company was dredging the Gladstone Narrows. Born at Causewayhead, Stirlingshire, Scotland David grew up in Greenock, Renfrewshire, on the banks of the Clyde. In 1868 at the age of 16 he stowed away aboard the Arran bound for Quebec and adventure, as it was every wee Scots' boy 'God given right'. Aboard, they were maltreated and eventually...Continue reading

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03.01.2022 On 24 April 1807 my 4x great grandfather David BRAND [DB#2] was born to David BRAND and Jean FOTHERINGHAM at Kincardine in Tulliallan Parish [then in Perthshire], Scotland. David married Agnes GRAY on 9 January 1831 at Kincardine. They had 5 children. The 1861 Census in Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire shows David was a Wood Merchant. David died in 1863.... My previous post about Agnes is www.facebook.com/findyourpast888/posts/1101003360319241 Happy 214th birthday. Images: Some photos I took around Kincardine in 2017.

02.01.2022 Don't forget.... Who Do You Think You Are? SBS Tuesday night (tomorrow) at 7.30pm. This week - Journalist and television personality Lisa Wilkinson.

01.01.2022 WOW! Just used the photo colouriser on MyHeritage with this old photo... and this is the result. Yes, I'll be sending a copy to family members. https://www.myheritage.com/incolor

01.01.2022 Oops. Sorry it's short notice. SBS tonight 7.30pm. WDYTYA. Denise Scott: Australian stand-up comedian, actor, television and radio presenter.

01.01.2022 Tomorrow night .... Tuesday SBS 7.30pm Who Do You Think You Are? Kat Stewart: Australian actress.

01.01.2022 14 May 1852 is believed to have been the birthday of David Jolly Brand, born at Alva, Stirlingshire, Scotland, to David Brand and Janet Christie. At the age of 16 David stowed away with 6 other boys on the "Arran" from Greenock. Every Scots' boy 'God given right'. They were maltreated and put off on to the ice-flows,where they then walked, some bare-footed, until they were picked up by boat. Some worked on farms for several months until another boat bound for Greenock took th...em home.Their ordeal lasted about 6 months. When the "Arran" returned to Greenock, the captain & firstmate went to trial in Edinburgh for the crime. I'm very glad my great great grandfather survived; otherwise I wouldn't be writing this now.

01.01.2022 TONIGHT.... Tuesday SBS 7.30pm Who Do You Think You Are? Troy Cassar-Daley: regarded as one of Australian country music's finest singer-songwriters, Troy will finally bridge the gap between his two cultural worlds.

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01.01.2022 Did any watch 'My Grandparents War' on SBS last week? Helena Bonham Carter had a lovely quote (by Linda Hogan): "Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands. SBS 8.30pm Wednesday This week - Kristin Scott Thomas.