Summary Daughters of John Ross with their Aunt Jane McMahon is believed to have been taken around when the youngest was around five years old. That would date the photo as circa 1902. From left to right, it is believed to be Barbara Christina Ross (6), Helen Mary Ross (10), Jane Curtain McMahon (33), Mary […]
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Viola Josephine Mann (1904-1972) – Invisible Farmer of Yan Yean
My Mother Viola Josephine Mann (maiden name McLaughlin) was born in Traralgon, Victoria on the 16th January, 1904. She was the daughter of Thomas Joseph McLaughlin and Elizabeth Therese Bushby. Her father, Thomas, was a shoemaker who had a shop in the small town of Trafalgar, in Gippsland, Victoria. In 1906, when Viola was two […]
Emms family of Bundoora
William Emms was the second child and eldest son of James Emms and Hannah Beadell. James was an excise – man and at the time of William’s birth in 1825 the family were living in Gravesend, Kent, UK. Hannah Beadell had been born in Kent in 1800 and James Emms b 1791 was the son […]
Family Secrets: the last hangman in England
My name is Ann Marie Johnson and I have just relocated from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland where I have lived for the past 10 years. My husband and I returned to Victoria in November 2012 and have just moved into our new home in Doreen. I have been teaching genealogy for the past 10 years […]
Wise Family of Yan Yean
Our Wise Family, in all, now numbering over 2,500, had a huge gathering in Wangaratta on the 19th of July 2008 to celebrate my great great grandfather and great great grandmother’s arrival at Port Phillip, on the 19th of July 1848, some 160 years ago. Joseph Wise and his wife Matilda settled for 10 years […]
Rowe Family, Eden Farm
The farm has been in the family since 1911; it’s now divided among descendants of the original Rowe owners, Agnes Hooper Mill (1874-1944) and William Philip Rowe (1876-1956). Their parents and grandparents, all immigrants from Illogan and St Agnes in Cornwall, were part of the Ranters Gully mining community in Campbells Creek, near Castlemaine, when […]