Family Tree Frog

The focus of Sepia Saturday this week is prams - or perambulators as they were once known.   I have shown pictures of prams before on my blog.   This one only a couple of weeks ago ....my mother is in the pram. This one of my mother with her doll's pram was posted six years ago. This one of her cousin's son Doug in a pram (and what a very smart pram it is) five years ago. If you look carefully at the photo of Gladys and Cecil Maloney in this photo posted a couple of years ago , you can see another pram So it was a real challenge to find a new photo...but here it is! Me and my doll's pram which I suspect we still have somewhere in the attic. My grandmother brought back this dress for me from Hawaii however the photo was taken in Edinburgh Scotland.  Gee I loved that pram.  It took a lot of beating.   I dug up a couple more recent photos of my children. Me and Bel in her pram - actually I do...

"Our theme image this week features mill workers in America in the early years of the twentieth century, and it is an image that has a very personal connection for me. Whether you, like me, have mill workers in your family tree or not, the fabric of our theme can easily stretch to encompass any aspect of the world of work. Or machines, or fabrics, or .... whatever your imagination wants to do with it."  Alan Burnett on Sepia Saturday   Today's post is going to be very weavy, windy because that is how my brain is at the moment.  Very weavy, windy.  Not windy.  Winedy.  So I set out with the intent of talking about my Forfar ancestors, because I believe they worked in mills in Bannockburn, Scotland.  When I googled Bannockburn, I came up with a Bannockburn in Queensland.  How about that?   It's just south-west of Yatala (where you can get some delicious pies) and is part of Logan City Council.  You can find out more ...

Don't these women look relaxed in this boat?  It's a long weekend this weekend in the land of Oz.  The Queen's Birthday weekend to be precise.  And I fully intend to relax.   When I searched for photos in our family collection of women in boats, I came across this one. I didn't think much about it to be honest.  I have no idea when it was taken or who that little girl is.  I am now wondering if it was my mother's cousin Joy.  I think it is certainly my mother's mother Kit sitting on the left with the hat.  This is one of my maternal grandfather's photos.  No writing on the back to help me.  So I'm going to guess sometime in the early 1930s before my mother was born in 1935.   The name of the boat certainly did help me.  As I blundered my way around Trove and Google, I have now come to the conclusion that this must be a speed boat.   My grandfather loved horse-racing so it is not too far a str...