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Margaret Tucker was born in Selby in Yorkshire and she emigrated to Australia in the 1960s, first to the steel milling town of Whyalla, in the desert of northern South Australia, then to the much milder capital city of Adelaide. She brought with her a nursing footstool that had belonged to her grandmother, Sarah Fowler, who had been a midwife for the towns and villages around … [Read more...] about Midwife’s Nursing Footstool from 1920s

By Michael Heim Adelaide, South Australia My parents were sort of proto-hippies. They were a generation too early to be real hippies, but when the movement happened in the mid 1960s, they recognised it immediately, and embraced it. My mother Jane was born in 1927 and by the 1950’s she was a species of hipster intellectual, into jazz and art, and gardening. My stepfather … [Read more...] about Woolly Jumper

Sharon Burnell and Ros Phillips have provided a photograph of some members of the Wood family, with some information as to who they might be. Sharon thinks the follow photo is of five brothers, either the sons of her great-great parents John and Rosannah Wood, or the sons of her great uncle Isaiah Wood and his wife Alveana Schmidt.Mystery Photo – Sons of a brickmaker – but … [Read more...] about PIONEER BRICKMAKERS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA

By Michael Heim If you like detective games, then trying to work out your family history based on the clues and objects and stories you inherit from your family is something you are going to enjoy. There is a lot of information rolling around the place, in people’s memories, in family stories that get handed down, and now in online genealogical sources. But some of it is … [Read more...] about Debra Earl’s Family Album

Lesley Smith’s Family Photographs Lesley Smith inherited two leather photograph albums from her family that contain several snaps. She brought eight photographs from the album to our History Harvest on family photographs in 2019 to showcase some of her favourites, including one of her grandfather and his three brothers (Figure 1). Her grandfather posed, standing behind a … [Read more...] about Lesley Smith’s Family Photographs