Family Tree Frog

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...

This photo is really me clutching at straws. My family tree software program - Family Tree Maker - has this neat thing where I can see what anniversaries family history wise are coming up or have just been. Friday was my grand-aunt's 120th birthday. I had quite a few grand aunts on both sides of the family but I really only knew one - my paternal grandmother' s sister Rene. But this grand aunt - still on my paternal side - was one of my grandfather 's sisters - Constance Nellie Morrison (nee Conner). I don't know much about my father's aunts and we don't seem to have any photos of them - that I can find at any rate.   The photo here is of their mother - Mrs Eleanor Conner with Mrs MacDougal (don't know who she was) and my grandparents, Ethel and Edwin Conner and John Morrison - Constance's son.   I don't have any certificates for Constance or her sister Lillian.  The information I have has been gleaned from websit...