November 2023
Are You Related to the McCormacks?
Over the years Sue and I have been writing our family stories, we have developed our own little tradition of excursions. We…
Migration and settlement
Migration, arrival and making a life in a new place.
July 2023
Families Along the Goulburn
Recently we discovered a bit more about the Molesworth branch of our dad’s family. Down the rabbit hole we went. It took…
April 2018
Decade by Decade
Five hours of Alice and Marge’s family stories finishes with an overview. Strikingly, Alice did most of this by herself, without notes.…
July 2017
The Pakenham Bourkes 1939 – 2017 Part Two
The property along Toomuc Creek was sold in 1854, and Michael and Catherine spent the remainder of their lives at Bourke’s hotel.…
April 2017
The Pakenham Bourkes 1839 – 2017 Part One.
Michael and Catherine Bourke of County Limerick, Ireland, our great great grandparents were part of the very early settlement of Victoria. They…
June 2016
The Poor Little Thing
Marge and Alice, with great drama, tell the story of our great, great grandmother whose name they do not know, and her…
March 2016
Alfreda Maria Holm, our maternal grandmother: the first seventeen years
We remember little of our maternal grandmother as a person. She was rather a remote figure, tall, elegant, well dressed but she…
November 2015
Great Great Grandparents
Alice and Marge in 1990, as they sat with their cassette recorder, told as much as they knew about their grandparents and…