Family Tree Frog

Manly Swimming Pool Queensland 1936 Sepia Saturday this week encourages us to explore: obvious theme possibilities of swimming and water available, but you might also want to investigate the possibilities of standing around and - like the child at the end of the diving board - hanging around. It's difficult to know where to begin with this blog post.  I've been sitting on it for at least 24 hours.  In those 24 hours, I have managed to list just about every article/listing I could find about my paternal grandmother's swimming feats as found on Trove as well as those of her sisters. This is no mean feat - using the search words "Carrett AND swim*" I found 792 results.  Of course, not all of them are relevant but to give you some idea I now have the following lists and number of items for each sister: Daisy - 70 items Ethel - 130 items Millie - 166 items Nora - 94 items Rene - 258 items Moi - obsessed? Just maybe! I have blogged about the...

8 March 1919 Ethel Carrett aged 14 Seafolly eat your heart out - this is what a cozzie should look like! And I think this is where I get my knees from :) Here is my Gran - my paternal grandmother - looking a bit chuffed having just won the President's cup. This is a copy of the original.  I think I did find the original but it was all chopped up... but it did have written on the back in my grandmother's handwriting "The President's Cup - one hundred yards to one mile swimming." Gran grew up in Parsley Bay, Sydney.   She was the second eldest of seven children. The photo is dedicated to Millie - her older sister - aka Dorothy Mildred.   Gran outlived all her siblings by a country mile.  She won that race too.  Rene, my great Aunt, died in 1988.  My Gran died in 1996. Ethel was a bit on the short side - another reason I think I am a bit on the short side. She made up for it with big hats though - bless. We don...