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Week 20/52 John FORFAR – 1764 - ? (by 1842) Ahnentafel Number  112 Context for discovery: This biography was written as part of the 52 ancestors in 52 weeks exercise devised by Amy Johnson Crow.  You can join in too here. The theme for this month is Social and this week is textile. Amy says: Week 20's theme is "Textile." Clothing, quilts, weaving -- there are so many ways to talk about textiles in our family history! Be creative with this week's theme! In Week 15 I wrote a biography of my 3 rd great-grandfather Robert Forfar .  He was baptised on 6 November 1817 and his parents identified as John Forfar and Isabella Rae.  His father was deceased by the time Robert married in 1842. John, Robert’s father, was my 4 th great-grandfather.  He has been variously described as a manufacturer and woollen manufacturer on his children’s marriage certificates. Timeline dates written in red on the right hand side of the test are sourced from Rosemary Big...

12 Marchmont Road Edinburgh  20th February 1921 My Dear Colin, It is now some weeks since I wrote you but as I have been troubled lately with an abscess I left it to Mamma, A & J. You know I suffered a good deal in Queensland with toothache well on my way home my left jaw was swollen a good bit so a few weeks after my arrival here I got my tooth taken out and the swelling went down a good deal but 5 weeks ago I must have got cold in it as it swelled up again so I went to a dentist to see if he could do any thing for me but he said it was beyond him and advised me to go to the Infirmary.  So I went and they put a needle or some such instrument into the swelling from the inside after having given me gas. A few days after that it certainly went down a bit but as the wound had head up it simply began to swell up again. So in I went again and this time they cut it from the outside; that is a fortnight ago yesterday and it is still not healed up. Of course they k...

If you've just tuned in to the McKenzie story, you may want to read the introductory post  here. Worker's dwelling at Banyo, Brisbane. Banyo is the name of an eastern suburb of Brisbane and a railway station on the Sandgate line. The name is an aboriginal word meaning 'a small hill' and was probably so called from the hill on which now stands Pope Pius XII Seminary. The railway station was originally called Clapton Junction, however the name was changed to Banyo in 1897 when it was intended to make it the junction for the North Coast line - this junction was subsequently made at Northgate. Image from John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland Negative number: 147209  Out of copyright c/-Gillies  28 Comely Bank Place,  Edinburgh 15th August 1920 My Dear Colin, We received a letter from you written on 27th June and addressed to Alex on Wednesday last and see that you are getting on all right. I have now got a job as a clerk at £2-1...

Family Notices. (1934, November 10). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 1. Retrieved December 29, 2015, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32821946 Good morning everyone!  How are you this fine day in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia?  I have been off the radar for reasons which I won't discuss just now but I am happy to get back into the swing of things with a post on the meme of Trove Tuesday.   I have a friend staying from Scotland with me at the moment.  Joy of joys, she asked me to do a little family history research for her.  She wanted to find any trace of her uncle who came out to Australia in about 1925 as a young lad from Scotland. She gave me his name: Allan MacDougall, his approximate age (15 or 16) and the name of his mother: Bella Ann (after whom my friend was named) and his father: Alexander.  She thought he might have worked in the railways. We did a bit of digging and I thought I would share our lines of research...