September 2015
Our Little Allie 1895-1906
Late July 2007, on a clear winters day in Chiltern, a small Northern Victorian town I found myself…
Story Thread · 5 Stories
Stories Recovered
Follow the fragments from which family history is recovered: a graveside, remembered stories, careful research, letters and the long conversation that brings generations back into view.
Read in the order chosen by the family. Each Story leads to the next.
The sequence
June 2016
The Poor Little Thing
Marge and Alice, with great drama, tell the story of our great, great grandmother whose name they do…
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,…
October 2015
Twelfth Birthday Letters to Alice
Letter writing is all but dead. When we were cleaning out our mother’s flat, after she had died,…
April 2018
Decade by Decade
Five hours of Alice and Marge’s family stories finishes with an overview. Strikingly, Alice did most of this…