Family Footprints

25/02/2026

Reminder followers... this page will soon be defunct. Please join us at the Family Footprints page. Same profile image, different location. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2324173471395198

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16/02/2026

Sharing the link to the new group. Same picture and family history research support in a different place: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2324173471395198

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16/02/2026

For some time I have been toying with the idea of deleting this page and creating a Family Footprints group. The page was set up when I was hoping/ wishing/ praying that I could actually make a living as a genealogist. 🤣 As I am more knowledgeable now, I realise that was a pipe dream. But I want to give current followers a soft landing. Please join the new Family Footprints Facebook group. Hoping this will work in everyone's interests. 👣

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11/02/2026

This article in the 'Albany Advertiser' has been my latest research project and conducted on behalf of a friend of mine who recently retired from Bolgart to Perth. If you want to learn more, please post. 👣

11/02/2026

Followers of this page will be forgiven for thinking I run hot or cold. Just letting you know I am never idle and have been busy: 1. Capturing all details of members on my convict page and attributing them to over 300 fine felons (convicts); 2. Responding to research requests from my Avon Valley Family History group and those shared by other mediums; 3. Dissecting my 90 page book on my own fine felon into separate documents to make it easier to add and retract information. Still very much committed to followers and will make an extra effort to post that is newsworthy, exciting or will add value to the quest of researchers. This is not an excuse, this is reality. Hoping to contribute more from here on in. As always, if you have a question, please post it. 👣

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04/02/2026

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19/01/2026

Damn! I'm trapped!

13/12/2025

WOW!! A Genealogy Advent Calendar... apologies for delayed delivery. Santa didn't give me the heads up in time! Probably due to my Grinch status. 🤣👣 chrome-extensio://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://cms-z-assets.familysearch.org/ec/23/1675a0164b259ab0cf74a4fbc580/advent-calendar-en-v2.pdf

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07/12/2025

C***k cheers to you Lib. X

05/12/2025

Great things are still happening at the Capel Cemetery thanks to the CDCP. 🫶

19/11/2025

11/11/2025

Nearing the end of chasing information about Phoebe Dunbar fine felon # 2603 Patrick HANEY (aka HEAGNEY, HAINY, HEANEY, HEANY) - see the problem here folks? He was only 15 when he was charged with larceny at County Monaghan in 1849. But it is not of him who I want to speak. It his son, also named Patrick who was born on 29 July 1884. His father died in 1891 and it would appear at least some of the family still had some connection with his mother's family, the Dix's from Moora. Not so young Patrick or his mother Annie. There are numerous TROVE articles that suggest the HAINEY family moved to the Goldfields. Young Patrick found himself before the Courts multiple times before finally receiving a 2 month jail sentence for being an idle and disorderly person, with no lawful means of support in 1902 - 18 years of age or there abouts. Having been sent to Fremantle for his incarceration and subsequent release, in 1905 he was charged with "being a person of evil fame", his Goldfields antics following him. His brother (which brother I am yet to ascertain) saved his bacon and apparently took him under his wing. Sadly, there are no rainbows or happy endings here folks, at the tender age of 21, young Patrick, while attending a horse race meeting at Vasse, Busselton, became unwell and died on Sunday 18 February 1906. Better known as 'Paddy the Tipster', it would indeed be an eye opener and go back to see the world from his point of view. 👣

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