Wattle
1938 Hebburn Street Hamilton, Newcastle The first photo in my collage is of my mother Barbara Conner nee McLoughlin . I love this photo. My mother looks so cheerful and happy. And of course I think it is very apt for this festival as she is in a Wattle Tree - the Floral Emblem of Australia. My mother would have been just three years old in this photo. On the back of the photo is her own handwriting saying Hepburn Street Hamilton.The "p" seems to be crossed out. So I'm thinking maybe it is Hebburn Street Hamilton, Newcastle. And in my grandmother's handwriting is "My girlie taken in Auntie Bell's wattle tree. Xmas 1938" I wonder if that Wattle tree is still there and if so how big it is now. I have searched Find My Past without much joy in an attempt to find the Wingfields in the census. Belle was my maternal grandmother's twin sister. She married Irvine William Wingfield in 1922. Her ...