The Tree of Me

 I remember asking my father once about the scar on his knee. His response was that he fell off his motorbike. From memory I think he said he was at Ardlethan in New South Wales, 1000 kilometres from his home in Wallangarra. Tonight while searching the Tenterfield Star (not available on Trove but via the Tenterfield Library website ) I discovered a little about his motorbike, a 1951 Matchless Motor Cycle.  I wonder was his fall the catalyst for selling the bike early in 1953.  Tenterfield Star 5 March 1953, p. 7 I wonder did it look like this 1951 Matchless G80 ?

 I have a rather large collection of invoices and receipts that belong to my husband's Scheef family. Albert Gustave Scheef and his family owned a property, Spring View at Long Point, Hillgrove. Together they give a detailed insight into the life of the family from the stock details, vehicles owned, medical appointments and purchases from suppliers. Over the next couple of months I hope to scan them all. The invoices are dated from the mid 1940s to the early 1950s. Albert died in October 1953, so perhaps later invoices were not placed on a metal spike as the earlier ones were. The Scheef family had dealings with a large number of businesses in Armidale. Medical Dr R. B Austin, Armidale Dr J.K. Harbison, Armidale The Armidale & New England Hospital Leo E. McConvill, Dental Surgeon, 107 Faukner Street, Armidale Mr W.H. McBean, Braemar, 171 Beardy Street, Armidale D.D.H. Fayle, The Armidale Dispensary Mallam's Pharmacy, Chemists, Armidale Legal Weaver, Gentle & Harrison, P...

I have a copy of a page of deaths from a Ryan family bible. The bible belonged to James Ryan, my husband's great, great, great grandfather. In this post I would like to try and work out the relationship between all of the people mentioned in the entries. The entries are not written in chronological order. James Ryan, father of Daniel  James Ryan has identified himself as the father of Daniel, his eldest son. 1.  January 25th 1906 at 3:20 in the afternoon m y brother John died  John Ryan, the son of Daniel Ryan and Ann died at Uralla. (NSW 3306/1906 ) 2. August 28th 1912, at one o'clock a.m. my son Daniel died  Daniel was the elder of twins sons born to James Ryan and his wife Catherine Cleary.  3. September 17th 1912 Patrick Ryan Burrawa died in the afternoon  Patrick Ryan was born in about 1850 in Cashel, Tipperary, came to Australia as a boy with his mother and brother Timothy (Goulburn) and after living in Kiama and Gerringong finally settled in Burrowa...

  I'm spending some time during these wet school holidays putting some order into my research. This post puts into perspective the arrivals of both mine and my husband's family lines. My paternal arrivals My father's ancestors were the most recent to arrive in Australia, with the first being 1852 and last in 1883.  This is my only branch without any convict ancestors. The Allsop family moved through Victoria to Queensland and later to New South Wales.  My maternal arrivals Patrick Flynn, a convict is my earliest arrival. The Seabrooks, arriving in 1932 are my earliest free settler arrivals. Although the Ogden family arrived in Queensland, they immediately hopped on another ship and went to Sydney. In later life they moved to Perth.  Brisbane shipping records for the time period of the arrival of John Ryan and Mary O'Halloran were destroyed in a flood, so I can only pinpoint their arrival to before their marriage in July 1864.  John and  Mary  also move...