Forebear Friday

I came across these slides the other day whilst browsing through all the boxes on my ingenious slide viewer (ha ha). They're both of my Dad, the first one is when he was 23 taken in 1963.

The second is taken the year after, in 1964 at Bondi Beach, which is where he grew up.

Hope your all having a nice Friday.
xx

Forebear Friday

I haven't done a forebear friday post for such a long time. I'm so slack!

This is my Great Grandmother Jessie May taken (I'm guessing) when she was about 20 years old which would have been in 1896.

Hope you're all having a nice Friday. xx

PS - If you want to see a some photos of the surgery our dog had yesterday click here and here, don't click if you don't like seeing stitches and stuff. They're a bit blury. He's fine now, sleeping it all off. He also had 6 teeth removed (including 2 canines) so I think he's got about 10 teeth left. He had an infection that was going into his sinuses...ouch.

A few things...

1. I've been a bit slack at blogging recently haven't I? Oh well, life just gets in the way. I've just taken over the  uniform shop at school so have been concentrating on that the last few weeks. I think it's all under control now though so shouldn't take up much time.

2. I've just put my Madeit shop on "holiday mode". My Etsy shop is still open though. I've been having a bit of a break so haven't been promoting them at all which is the good thing about Etsy and Madeit, they just sit there and if you need a holiday you can take it.

3. The bougainvillaea has finally flowered. I'm not sure what I did but it hasn't had any colour on it for a couple of years so I'm glad I haven't killed it.

4. The maple tree (or whatever it is), on the other hand, hasn't got any leaves on it yet...what's with that? I'm really hoping it's OK because it's such a lovely tree. My MIL thinks it was late to drop it's leaves this year so maybe it's just running a bit behind schedule.

This is the neighbours one which ours usually looks like

This is the Elkhorn or Staghorn (can never remember) that we've been watching since it was the size of a fifty cent piece...so beautiful

5. I put a Kirb button on my sidebar (just under my profile), so you can check out my kudos and leave me some if you feel so inclined. There's a picture of me there as well. I'm sick of trying to hide my identity. Enjoy!

Hope your all having a nice Friday. What are you up to today? I'm going to try and get Forebear Friday back up and running next week in case anyone's wondering.

xxx

Forebear Friday

Here's a photo of my Grandmother, Marjorie (in the middle) with her brother and sister, Jack and Dorothy. It would have been taken around 1910 in Melbourne.

I'm off to enjoy my Birthday, hope you have a lovely day as well. xx

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Just keeping with the Bondi theme from last week, here's a photo of Bondi Beach back in the 1930's. It sure has changed a lot hasn't it.

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Here's one that's a bit more recent. About 1975 at North Bondi pool. Me with my Grandmother, Marjorie, or Nanny as we called her. We spent a lot of time here growing up.

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I missed last weeks forebear friday post...whoops.

Here's one from the early 1900's.

L-R: Charles, Ernest and James (my Great Grandfather). These are the three youngest brothers...numbers eight, nine and ten in the family.

Hope you're having a lovely Friday. xx

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This photo's from about 1910.

The girl lying down at the front is my paternal Grandmother, Marjorie Doreen and the girl sitting behind her is her sister, Dorothy May.

Other faces look familiar but I won't bore you with details.

I love the men's hats and all the clothes.

Leave me a comment if you have an old photo on your blog today.

Giveaway here (or just scroll down).

Have a great Friday. xx

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This would have been taken around 1950 in the West Indies. It's my Mum, Julia (on the right) and her brother Piers.

On the back of the photo is written:

"Going down to the Beach in St Vincent with Di the garden girl."

I love how she's carrying everything!

Leave a comment and let me know if you have an old photo on your blog this week.

Have a nice Friday. xx

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On the far right is James William, my paternal Grandfather, aged 19. The boy leaning on the pole in the middle is one of my Great Uncles, John I think. James married his older sister. On the back of the photo it is written that this is a camp of training at Seymour, Victoria, taken in 1926.

Leave a comment and let me know if you have a photo on your blog this week and I'll add a link here.

Always Sunday has a lovely photo of her Nan, she's 95!

Have a lovely Friday. xx

PS-If you haven't entered already, I'm having a giveaway here.

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I love this photo. I've got no information on it. The people in it look familiar and it was in the family stash of photos but I haven't matched it up to anyone yet. I'm guessing it's taken around 1900 and probably in Melbourne somewhere. I just love the old house and that if I look at the picture long enough I keep thinking that someone's looking out that window at me (click on the picture to make it bigger).

I'm not alone this week either... Becclebee has joined me in posting some old photos. I love that she's inherited so much from her Grandmother. Let me know if you want to join in on a Friday as well and I'll put a link in my post.

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Here's a photo of my Mum at school in Oxford, UK. I'm guessing they were in sewing class, wonder what they were making. Mum, can you enlighten us? Mum is the one sitting in the white top.

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Whoops, a bit late with this post, nevermind.

This was taken about 1910 in Melbourne somewhere.

L-R is Dorothy, Jessie May, John, Al, Marjorie (my Grandmother) and Cis.

Jessie May is Dorothy, John and Marjorie's Mother. Al and Cis where family friends.

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Here's Marjorie's (my Grandmother) wedding dress that she made featured in The Graphic Newspaper in 1931.

You can read about the dress in the text above the photo. She later turned this dress into a gorgeous T-back number which I remember trying on as a teenager, so beautifully made. I have to ask Dad if he still has it somewhere.

Hope you've all had a great week.

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From left to right this is my Grandfather, Pete, my Uncle Piers, my Mum, Julia and my Grandmother, Maureen. Taken in the West Indies in 1949.

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This is Ann and John, mother and father of James (along with 11 other children!). Taken in about 1911. These are my Great Great Grandparents on my Dad's side. John came over from Portugal when he was 21 or so to escape his very strict father (or so the story goes). Ann was born in England.

When I was researching the family history on Ancestry I kept seeing another person with the same family members in her tree as well, so I sent her a message and it's ended up that we're 2nd or 3rd cousins, but the funniest bit is, she lives just in the next suburb and we get along really well and have kids roughly the same age...small world. So these are Chantal's Great Great Grandparents as well. Chantal does lovely crafty things also, maybe it runs in the family.

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My Mum, Julia, and my Nanny (Dad's mum), Marjorie, the seamstress from this post. Taken in 1971.

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Here's a photo of my Grandfather, Pete, and Grandmother, Maureen getting married at St Peter's in Rome during World War II (apparently the first two british officers to get married there).

The story of the wedding was read on BBC Radio a few years later (in 1957) and we still have the transcript which is a great read. They both had two or three weeks leave from service and decided to meet in Rome and get married, but pete didn't turn up on time and so Maureen, who had hitched a ride on a plane from Egypt with only a nightie, a wedding dress and a toothbrush got some help tracking him down from some nice army men. The story goes on to tell of how they track him down in a field hospital with the flu somewhere in Italy and transport him to Rome. The story ended happily as you can see by the photo.

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OK, so Mum very politely pointed out that I do actually have a maternal side of the family as well (I've only put Dads side of the family on here so far...oops), so here's a photo of my Mum, Julia, and her brother, Piers, on their boat in the West Indies, were they grew up. The boat was called the Mona Lisa.

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This one's in honour of ANZAC day.

I haven't done much research on Bert, but he served in the defence force (not sure which one) and died in 1915 during WWI. He is a Great Uncle or Cousin or something I think. There was a little note written about him from another relative in a letter sent to my Great Grandmother, it says "Isn't it sad poor old Bert got killed. It was for a grand cause and some of us have to go under and I hope with a smile when it does come." The man who wrote this came back alive.

Lest we forget