John emigration story is a inspiring as its disheartening. He went to Australia at 19 on his own a Illiterate Horsekeeper, but with five years had risen to sub inspector on the booming New South Wales Railway build. 34 years…
This is a story of two emigrations from a husband and wife but 26 years apart and quite separate journeys. It is unclear about a lot of Thomas James intentions and movements. He went to Australia following in the family…
Joseph emigrated from Wooburn in Buckinghamshire, the son of a Farmer and land owner who when he died left the land to his eldest son and not Joseph. However, Joseph had learnt to raise cattle and butcher them, so he…
Alfred is the most researched of the 19th Century emigrants, who at 18 sought out his future in what was then undeveloped Queensland and lived to leave a dynasty of Australian Blinco’s . Most Australian Blincos know a bit about…
44 Letters written by J.W.B. John Walcot Blencowe , Chaplain Captain, Chaplains Dept Attached 1/1 Suffolk Yeomanry (The Duke of Yorks Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars) and 2ndDevonshire Regiment. After my father died in 1966, I discovered a packet of letters that he…
Canadians long known for their tolerance to and support of equality are surprised to learn that in WW1 there was intolerance and racial discrimination in the community even in a time when the nation needed to pull together. In 1871…
LETTERS OF THE REV’D J.W. BLENCOWE FROM GALLIPOLI 1915 The uniform of the Chaplaincy to the ForceLeft John in uniform Right cap badge and brass Maltese Cross lapel badges Letter instructing J W B to report for Chaplaincy duties War…