Tracing Family Branches

Well here I go writing this post for the second time after accidentally deleting it when it was almost finished and not being able to retrieve it as auto save had saved the deleted version 🤦‍♀️ On Thursday I received two transcriptions I had ordered from NSW Family History Trancriptions .  The first was the NSW BDM Marriage Registration for Daniel Sugrue and Ellen Pierce, alias Sullivan and the second was the NSW BDM Death Registration for Daniel Shoughron.  Ellen is my 4th Great Grandmother and Daniel was her second husband, making him my step 4th Great Grandfather.  Please note I have previously posted about them here and here . While I do personally prefer to have certified copies of certificates it is just not economically viable for me to get all of the certificates on my genealogy wish list this way. Therefore I have decided that for all non direct line relatives in New South Wales that I will order transcriptions in future.  I will also be ordering them for ...

The inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of my 4th Great Grandfather Thomas Battey is the subject of my Trove Tuesday article this week.  Source: A GALLON OF WINE PER DAY, AND THE DEATH OF THE TOPER. (1870, October 27). Queanbeyan Age (NSW : 1867 - 1904), p. 4. Retrieved June 11, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30581135 Transcript: A GALLON OF WINE PER DAY, AND THE DEATH OF THE TOPER. An inquest was held on last Saturday forenoon by Dr Blake the district coroner, and a jury, touching the death on that morning of a man named Thomas Battey, a carrier by trade, who by a three weeks indulgence, first in excessive quantities of brandy, followed by the consumption of at least a gallon of colonial wine per day, drank himself into his grave.  A singular circumstance in the case is, that for a fortnight of the period mentioned, the deceased kept to his bed, and during the whole time, up to the moment of his death, the...

I am a huge fan of Trove it is a wonderful research resource and is very much a national treasure! For my first Trove Tuesday post I have selected an article involving a snake bite.    Source:Yass Items. (1885, November 6). Southern Argus (Goulburn, NSW : 1881 - 1885), p. 2. Retrieved May 7, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article109772979 Transcript: Bitten by a Snake.- On Wednesday evening Mr. E. Batty, of North Yass, was bitten on the left leg by a snake, at that part of the Yass river known as McFeetor's.  Batty says he did not see the snake until he felt the bite, and the snake was making the second attack on him when he killed it.  He then cut a piece of flesh out of his leg, about the size in circumference of half-a-crown and nearly a quarter of an inch thick, and went on to Mr. W. Davis', when Mrs. Davis blasted some more of the flesh away with gunpowder.  His leg was then tightly strapped above the knee, and he was brought into Yass to...