November 2015
Great Great Grandparents
Alice and Marge in 1990, as they sat with their cassette recorder, told as much as they knew…
Story Thread · 8 Stories
Following the Family into Victoria
Follow the family’s movement through early Victoria, from migration and farms to Goulburn communities and Pakenham. Documents, remembered stories and a visit to the places make the past tangible.
Read in the order chosen by the family. Each Story leads to the next.
The sequence
August 2016
Heather Farm, Kilmore Junction ,1879
Stories we heard as children paint a picture of the lives of our great, great grandparents, Joachim and…
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…
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…
May 2016
Grace McCormack, our other grandmother.
Until last week we knew very little about our paternal Grandmother, Grace. We both had the feeling from…
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…
June 2017
Pakenham, the visit
Research is interesting and exciting as new snippets of information come to light. Our research into Pakenham, and…
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…