Family Tree Frog

Courtesy of the National Library of Australia (Trove), The Argus, Tuesday 31 March 1868, p. 4 Following on from yesterday's post about the Ellis Family.... Tonight I found a death notice for Isobel Blanche Victoria Ellis who was the fourth child and first daughter of George and Isabella Ellis.   George and Isabella went on to have 12 children altogether - four more girls - Esther Isobel, Kate Emelia, Isobel Mary and Beatrice Sarah Louisa.  Isobel Mary died in 1881.  Both Kate and Beatrice died as young women after having their own children.  Poor Isabella really only got to keep one of her daughters Esther, who lived to the ripe old age of about 86, outliving her mother and dying in 1954. At the time of Isobel Blanche's death, George and Isabella were living at 54 Napier Street Fitzroy.  They would have had George aged about 6 and Charles aged about 4.  George and Isabella had lost baby Paul four years earlier and Esther was a baby or ...

Ellis Family Group Photo Today's blogging prompt comes from Jennifer Geraghty-Gorman, of ‘ On a flesh and bone foundation': An Irish History' . The photo above is a copy of a photo obtained by my parents from a "newly found" cousin last century just before my mother died.  I'm afraid I don't know who is whom.  So I shall just have a big fat guess and hope that my guessing will bring cousins out of the woodwork to tell me where I have gone wrong ;)  I believe it is a photo of the Ellis family or my mother's great-grandparents and their children. Relationship Chart from Alex to Isabella Sinclair and George Ellis. Here's a bit of a relationship chart so you can see who's who in the zoo. That's me at the bottom - the living one.  Then my mother.  Then my maternal grandmother.  Then her mother.  And then her maternal grandmother. So - in the photo...I think is Isabella and George Ellis sitting together in the middle.  Seated ...