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When William met Jessie Part 1

by Shakya | Mar 8, 2021 | Biographies, Gympie, Love in War Time, World War 2

When William met Jessie Part 1 Jessie Florence Brown was the second of five children born to Herbert Charlie Brown and his wife Annie Louise Loveday. Herbert was a butcher and the family resided in Walthamstow in Essex in England. Other than Census records of the day,...

Catherine Nash nee Murphy

by Shakya | Mar 2, 2021 | Women

Catherine Nash nee Murphy ” When Catherine Murphy arrived in Gympie, with her family, in June of 1867 it was a bitterly cold winter. She would always remember the cold the family experienced that year. They were living in a building of single paling walls, full...

Shanahan Family History

by Shakya | Feb 28, 2021 | Gympie, Gympie & Wide Bay district, Pioneer families

Trove Digitised Newspapers

by Shakya | Feb 23, 2021 | Gympie, Gympie & Wide Bay district, Research tips

Trove Digitised Newspapers TROVE DIGITISED NEWSPAPERS Search Tips Search for names, places, addresses, ship names. Refine your search results. Use the category and decade filters before the title filter as items are likely to be in newspapers Australia wide. Use...

Love in War Time

by Shakya | Feb 21, 2021 | Funny Page, Love in War Time, World War 1

Love in War Time In the closing days of World War 1 a young Gympie soldier lay in hospital in England recovering from pneumonia. He was cared for by a British nurse and he penned this verse in her autograph book. My love is like a cabbage Divided into two, The leaves...

When William met Jessie Part 1

Catherine Nash nee Murphy

Shanahan Family History

Trove Digitised Newspapers

Love in War Time

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