Family Tree Frog

My great-grandmother, Eleanor Eliza Cook, was born  141 years ago tomorrow on 21 September 1874. I have written about her before but it bears repeating.   I have found some new information this evening which I need to record as well. Eleanor's birth certificate shows that her father James was a Gunner on the ship the Monarch and that her mother was Caroline (nee Jefferies).  They lived at 25 Orange Street Portsea. Eleanor was the eldest of many children.  According to the 1891 Census they were living in 120 Queens Road and the children were listed as follows: Eleanor E aged 16 Emma M aged 14 Beatrice L aged 10 Mabel aged 9 James T.R aged 8 Walter D aged 7 Albert H. aged 3 Frederick W. 2 Winifred I. 1 Caroline, Eleanor's mother was 39 years old at the time of the Census. According to the 1901 Census there were two more children: Grace L aged 9 and John F aged 7 A big family indeed. At the age of 17 Eleanor married Edwin Conner o...

  Springsure State School student group, 1884 John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland The lovely Shelley from Twigs of Yore came up with this great meme for Australia Day. Shelley proposed the following: Choose someone who lived in Australia (preferably one of your ancestors) and tell us how they toiled. Your post should include:     What was their occupation?     What information do you have about the individual’s work, or about the occupation in general?     The story of the person, focussing on their occupation; or     The story of the occupation, using the person as an example.   I chose my great grand aunt - Harriet Rowland (nee Conner) Harriet is pretty emblematic of how I tend to jump around in family history.  She is not a direct ancestor as such - she is in fact the older sister of my paternal great-grandfather.  Of course I never knew her.  When I grew up t...