Anne’s Family History

23/07/2025

Looking forward to presenting at the AFFHO Family History Month closing ceremony on 31 August

Opening and Closing Ceremonies Awards • Prizes • Guest Speakers Scroll Down to view Presentation Outlines,Speaker Biographies & Prize Details. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER OPENING CEREMONYFriday August 1: 5.00PM AEST, via Zoom Summary of event – Gabriella Tsiprou FHM Coordinator, AFFHO Welcome – D...

19/07/2025

Here’s some more about Catapodi the forger, who I mentioned in my recent posts about John Roberts, alias Colin Reculist, forger and Sarah Best transported for stealing a cotton counterpane value 5 shillings. ‘Colourful character’ doesn’t begin to describe him. Catapodi, Roberts, and Sarah Best are not relatives but I became interested as John Roberts was hanged at the same time as Henry Weston, a gambler, my first cousin five times removed.

Here’s some more about Catapodi the forger, who I mentioned in my recent posts about John Roberts, alias Colin Reculist, forger and Sarah Best transported for stealing a cotton counterpane va…

16/07/2025

Currently researching Caroline Chisholm. She was on the $5 note until 1992. I learned about her in school. I think though that many younger Australians have not heard of her :(

24/06/2025

I would be very grateful if you could take my quick survey: Have you heard of Caroline Chisholm? Did you learn about her in school? I would be really interested to know how widely she is known.

08/05/2025

The cost of WW2

An animated data-driven documentary about war and peace, The Fallen of World War II looks at the human cost of the second World War and sizes up the numbers ...

08/05/2025

80th anniversary of VE day - remembering one of my cousins

Today is the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2, at least in the European theatre. Victory in Europe Day (VE Day, from midnight on 8–9 May 1945), celebrates the formal acceptance by …

07/05/2025

Gordon Gray Carruthers Hawkins (1887-1915), my second cousin three times removed, was one of 1423 men fighting for the British Empire who died on the Gallipoli peninsula on 25 April 1915; 748 who died that day were Australian and 153 of these were from the 7th Battalion.

Gordon Gray Carruthers Hawkins (1887-1915), my second cousin three times removed, was one of 1423 men fighting for the British Empire who died on the Gallipoli peninsula on 25 April 1915; 748 who d…

30/04/2025

Looking back at the April challenge

The A to Z Blogging Challenge is a friendly annual blogging event. Participants post every day of April except Sundays: 26 times, with a contribution for every letter of the alphabet. This year, 20…

30/04/2025

My final entry in the 2025 April A to Z blogging challenge

My sixth great uncle Zachary Philip Fonnereau (1706 – 1778) was the sixth of the ten children of a wealthy linen merchant named Claude Fonnereau (1677 – 1740) and his wife Elizabeth Fonnereau née B…

28/04/2025

Penultimate day of April 2025 A to Z blogging challenge

RootsTech, if you haven’t heard of it, is a family history and technology conference and trade show held each year in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is organized by FamilySearch, part of the Family…

27/04/2025

Continuing to April 2025 A to Z blogging challenge - the ever optimistic Barbara

My fifth cousin twice removed Vivian Tyrell Champion de Crespigny (1907-1952), eighth of the Champion de Crespigny baronets, was married three times, the first and third time to the same person, B…

25/04/2025

Continuing the April 2025 challenge. I am pleased to have made progress on my German family history

My great great grandmother Wilhelmine Henrietta Ritter was born in Deetz on 7 Dec 1862. She was the daughter of a day labourer August Ritter and his wife Johanna Luise Grenzel. Personal names in Ge…