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Orange Grove Public School - Play Day NSW State Archives NRS 15051 School photograph collection Flickr Ahnentafel Number 39 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 "extending the branches" and for this week is "courting".   Margaret was my 3rd great-grandmother. Her life story is one of sometimes courting disaster, courting to seek affection or favour or to deceive, not to mention being in court. Much of what follows has appeared in previous posts on this blog but has been collated together in an attempt to obtain a more complete picture. Birth Date/Place: circa 1808 Caernarvonshire, Wales (from her convict indent and death certificate) Baptism Date/Place:  unable to find/identify Major World Events/Disasters/Wars etc 1815 - Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo 1833 - convict transportation to Australia peaks 1834...

Annotated map of Taemas This blog post will be a bit waffly because I am fast running out of time to think clearly and make sensible well considered posts.  Please forgive me.   Recently, for another University of Tasmania course called Place, Image, Object  we had to make an annotated map of a place that was significant to us or our family history, bringing together subjective and objective elements. What an agonizing but fruitful exercise it was.  I chose to do a map showing some of my ancestor's land near Yass and Canberra where I grew up.  My ancestor was Samuel Taylor. Here is my reflection on the task. I created several annotated maps in the process of creating the final annotated map for my ancestor, Samuel Taylor.  At first I wanted to show how place names can be duplicated in different areas.  For example.  George Willmore originally called Arana Hills, the suburb where I work in Queensland, after Camden Park – a place familia...