Genealife in Lockdown 2. 2021 NFHM Blogging Challenge

In the initial times of the 2020 Lockdown around the world, people were ingenious at finding ways to bring some joy into their lives

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Many in high rise apartments played music and sang on their balconies. Others contributed from neighbouring units making up mixed bands, orchestras, and choirs. Much of it was shown on television and so shared internationally. Virtual singing groups formed from well-known musical stars, unknown musicians, parents, and children, even hospital staff.
In one way it was a beautiful time of collective happiness and a ‘sense of community’.

Genea-life in Lockdown 1 NFHM Blogging Challenge

It is National Family History Month in Australia, and I have accepted a challenge to write about Genea-life in Lockdown. Blogging every Sunday in August will be an Olympic effort and tie in with the Olympic Games currently in action in Tokyo, Japan. 

 

We started our second lockdown here in Southeast Queensland on Saturday 31^st July 2021, coincidentally the 50th birthday of my oldest daughter. We couldn’t visit her for the day, as the area she lives in – Central Coast of NSW is considered part of Greater Sydney and has been on lockdown for a while. 

This nasty virus arrived in Australia on 25 January 2020 (my husband’s birthday) when a man returned from Wuhan, Hubei, China, to Victoria and it has spread since then. 

F is for FAMILY. 14 William Street, Port Fairy (Belfast), Victoria. Historical Fiction based on fact.

 

My photo of the Wells family cottage in Port Fairy,

 taken 2014

The little wooden sign painted with a shaky hand (using the

olive paint left from the outside loo) advertised the goods and prices to the passers-by.

He'd always gardened, as had his father before him. The 'green thumb' had been handed on, and he was the lucky one of the five children. Was it a help? Definitely, it meant he'd been able to start work quickly once they found a cottage in their new hometown, named after Belfast in Ireland.

E is for Edgley

George EDGLEY and Alice UNDERWOOD were my 3^rd Great 

Grandparents (my paternal side).  They lived in Doddington, 

Cambridgeshire, England. 

 

George was born about 1780, but I haven’t yet found his birth record 

St Thomas à Becket Church, Ramsey

for the exact date. 

When he was 23, he married Alice 

Seekings nee Underwood on 29 Sep 

1803. The wedding was held at the 

Church of St Thomas à Becket in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. 

D is for Dickenson

Thomas and Margaret Dickenson were my 7^th Great Grandparents.  I have not yet found anything about them apart from the fact they were the parents of my 6^th Great Grandfather, John.

John Dickenson was born in 1666 at Sutton Valence, Kent England and lived all his life there.  He was christened 10 May 1666.  He married Ann Masters who was born in 1670 at Mardon. 

They had eight children: Margaret, Mary, Anne, Thomas, John, Sarah, Elisabeth and Stephen.

John died at home in June 1746 aged 80 years old. 

George Edward Pearce. 1909 - 1942. Uncle George R.I.P.

 I never met my Uncle George who died in the war, four years before I was born.  But I do remember how everyone talked of him as being such a lovely person, quiet, strong and family-oriented. 

My Auntie Tibbie proudly placed a wreath at every Anzac service in his honour.  I think being the oldest in the family and him the baby, his death broke her heart and she never wanted him to be forgotten.  Their father had died in 1922 and when George died his mother Isabella was in her 50s and running the orchard with the other two brothers. Tibbie the older sister became more of a mother to her brothers. Uncle George and my father looked very much alike with my father being the thinner one. George was a bigger version, my mother said. 

I am placing some photos here, which I will eventually go through and write about.  I have collected so much information about Uncle George I still have in the cupboard to sort, I need to take time to do him justice.

George on left, Sarah(Ray, Bill, Isabella (Tibbie), Jim Pearce at Peebles Scotland about 1911.