52 ANCESTORS 2022 WEEK 7 LOVE I am using this as week 6 as it is the most appropriate subject as Wayne and I were married in week 6 of the year 1972 which was 50 years ago. Be warned this is a long story but I felt that this would be a good place to record it on paper for the first time. Wayne proposed to me in August 1971 while we were baby sitting my sisters children. We were in a high rise block of flats in Flemington in Victoria on about the 7th floor. Of course I said yes! He then asked for my parents permission which was a nice gesture, both families thought we were a good match. We became officially engaged in September on my birthday, when we celebrated with friends. In preparation for our February wedding we had to keep in mind that my younger sister was to marry just 7 weeks before us. We decided that we would be married in the little church that we attended in Mitcham Victoria, my sister had chosen that as well. I started to get things tog...
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2022 52 ANCESTORS WEEK 7 Week 7 this story is based on the truth as told to my father A CONVICTS SON Don’t call me empty headed! Though you believe it’s true, I think I’m smart sometimes, You think I’m not as smart as you, I know how many rocks it takes to build a paddock wall, I know how my feet hurt for I have no shoes at all, I know what time the sun comes up I see it every day I know what nights the moon will shine to help me on my way, I know that working in the dark with snakes and dogs about Is a very scary thing, sometimes I scream and shout, I don’t know if it helps at all but it makes me feel stronger I tried to ask someone for help, told, don’t talk to your betters! Don’t get above your station boy, I don’t know what they mean I work as hard as any can, for a boy I think thirteen, I’ve no new clothes no shoes at all, just hessian on my feet, I found a shirt that someone lost, and then got whipped for theft! I’ve heard of school the farmers kids...
2022 WEEK 6 52 ANCESTORS Week 6. SURPRISE sometimes a surprise comes from something quite expected, like your children jumping out and saying Bo when playing hide and seek. But this surprise really came as a blast from the past . About 15 years ago I had been looking for a book that very carefully gave details of a large chunk of my English ancestors families The book was called The Higgs family of Berkshire England! We found a copy but it had just been sold on a rare book site , I could not have got it anyway because it sold for over $400 English pound. That alone put it out of my reach. But a huge surprise came last year in about August, a friend in England had discovered that it had been digitised and was available free on line . How he remembered was totally beyond me but remember he did, and sent me a message with a link to where I could access it . It is an incredible book with so much information that I have not yet finished reading it . Oh yes and well over 400 very...
2022 52 ANCESTORS WEEK 5 Week 6 AT THE LIBRARY I know the great value of the library, although I have not been to the local library since we moved home a year ago, but while studying for Families at War, a subject of the family history course offered by UTAS, I spent a lot of time at the family history part of the Wanneroo library. Where I was given access to photos that had not been sorted but placed in storage to be looked at at a later date . I borrowed Many books about the 1st world war and sat and read articles that could not be removed from the library. It was in the library that I read the sad stories about the great great great grandfather of 3 of our grandchildren. But it had a good ending as he returned home and after his wife died shortly after his return he raised his 2 children on his own.
52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS WEEK 4 2022 using week 4 from 2019 I WOULD LIKE TO MEET I have always said I would like to meet my great grand father to ask him who his parents were. But now my thinking has changed and I would like to meet every one of my living relatives to interview them and record their stories before they become those whose stories are lots in time forever. Some would have done great things and been many places others possibly think their story is not worth telling as no one would be interested in the little things they did. That is wrong because even the mundane is interesting when you look back. This is part of what I wrote just a few weeks ago and I have thought a lot of this concept lately. For life is a journey into endless time and we will be history some day! So we have recorded, the stories we know, before they are lost on the way. And we hope now you will do the same as you close at the end of this page, Have you recorded your...
That square part of the shed was where Charles Blegg commenced his life and lived until he was 4. Also in that shed were his parents John and Margaret and 8 siblings, including a baby younger than Charles. That was the gardeners and grave diggers shed at the Anglican Church at Ouse Tasmania. It wasn’t much to call home but as many only had a small tent or canvas lean too it was better than some. When Charles was 4 disaster struck, his 69 year old father died, and so his job went to someone else and with the job and the tools for grave digging they also lost the shed they had called home. Charles found himself at the age of 4 dumped by his mother at the Hobart Orphans home, with not a thing to call his own. After a short time there a foster family was found for him, many farm women liked the idea of fostering a boy, he could help on the farm, and she got paid to care for him, plus there was an extra amount as soon as he was old enough to go to school, there were clothes supplied b...
BUILDING ON THE FOUNDATION WEEK 2 & 3 2022 2022 WEEK 2 & 3 BUILDING ON THE FOUNDATION Charles was just a day past 13 when he decided to run away and find one of his brothers whom he had heard might be on the next farm. He quickly found him and they both decided to go and work on the mines just out of Queenstown Tasmania, the first day they were both picked to work, but only his brother was able to, as Charles still didn’t have any shoes so was not permitted to work without some. This meant without a job there was no food and no place to sleep. So he curled up each night outside a shop front, and would scrounge for food during the day, and drink the polluted water from the Conglomerate creek. After a few days a man passing by spoke to him found out the problem and invited him to his home to share his pot of soup, he also lent him a pair of shoes, that Charles had to fill with newspaper as they were too large, but he got a job, earning the first money he had eve...