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Dee, Me and Three

PeopleBy Janine RobertsSeptember 22, 2020

I was born after WWII. We lived in a reasonably modern home at Shalimar built by my father. We bathed in a tub in front of the fuel stove…

Leslie Hopetoun Osmond-Dreyer (1901-1959)

Commerce, PeopleBy Janine RobertsSeptember 20, 2020

Leslie Hopetoun Osmond was born in 1901 in Marrickville. At the age of 10 years he was orphaned and, with his sister, was taken in by Mr and Mrs Dreyer at Koribar (Dyer’s Crossing)…

Gold Freemason’s pin

ArtefactsBy Janine RobertsSeptember 15, 2020

A tiny article of jewellery passed down through my family is a gold pin. On one side is a Freemason’s sign and on the other the Lord’s prayer – so tiny you can hardly make out the words…

Gunner Forwood on HMS Endeavour

PeopleBy Janine RobertsSeptember 14, 2020

Stephen Forwood, born abt 1737, was the Gunner on Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour during its epic journey of discovery…

Bessie Irene Bastin

PeopleBy Janine RobertsSeptember 2, 2020

Bessie Irene Bastin was an attractive young lady who married John Thomas Forwood after he returned from fighting in WWI…

A forgotten pewter plate

ArtefactsBy Janine RobertsSeptember 1, 2020

An intriguing lost family story is that of my seven times great grandparents Sarah Batt and James Gaite who married 6 September 1767 in Flax-Bourton, Somerset, England…

“Mr Hockey”: Allan Taylor

PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 27, 2020

Allan Taylor had many titles over his life “King of the respirator kids”, “Mr Hockey” and “Tate”. No matter what he put his talents to he led and inspired…

Alfred Baker: Baker of Taree

PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 27, 2020

While Alfred Baker was born into a shipbuilding family, his taste and skills for baking was stronger…

George Albert Chapman

PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 20, 2020

George Albert Chapman was born in Raymond Terrace and in 1880, aged 23, he walked up the beach to the Wallamba looking for a place to settle…

Mervyn Chapman

PeopleBy Janine RobertsAugust 20, 2020

Mervyn Chapman was born in 1918. His trip from Taree Hospital to his home on Chapman Island in the Wallamba River was a perilous journey on the back of a motorcycle…

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