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The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, is 200 years old!
It’s today! Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden is 200 years old on June 13, 2016. Happy birthday! We’ve seen why this day is the bicentenary – it’s because this is when Nicholas Delaney and his convict road gang finished building Mrs … Continue reading
Posted in A Rebel Hand, Australia
Tagged #Garden200, Convict, Delaney, Heritage, history, Macquarie, Nicholas Delaney, Royal Botanic Garden, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, Sydney
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Nicholas Delaney and the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
The Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney is 200 years old on June 13, 2016. Happy Birthday! And the bicentenary’s on that day because of another birthday and the crafty planning of an Irish ex-convict – Nicholas Delaney, my great-great-great grandfather. … Continue reading
New South Wales 1891 census online
The Shoestring Genealogist here, just popping in to make sure you know that the New South Wales census for 1891 is now online at Family Search – with images! And free to everyone! I had to have a look. There’s … Continue reading
Posted in A Rebel Hand, Australia, Genealogy
Tagged Australia, census, Delaney, family history, genealogy, New South Wales, NSW, Thomas Delaney
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Accentuate the positive: 2014
Happy New Year! Once again Jill Ball at GeniAus has inspired us to look back on the positive things that have happened in our genealogy journeys during the year that’s gone. I took part in the previous two and find … Continue reading
Posted in A Rebel Hand, Genealogy
Tagged 2014, Davies, Delaney, Harrington, Lloyd, Sarah Marshall, Sarah's grave, shoestring genealogist
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An early spring clean
Do you spring clean? And, yes, I know that my Aussie mates will be muttering “it’s autumn!” But here there are crocuses peeping out and I’m getting that hopeful feeling. Mind you, it’s not too late for a frost, and … Continue reading
Posted in A Rebel Hand, Blogging, Website
Tagged A Rebel Hand, Australia, Blogging, Sydney, Worldwide Genealogy
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What does she confess? Wordless Wednesday
To mark one year since my mother’s death, I’m posting a Wordless Wednesday picture. This is the original photo, published in various Australian newspapers and captioned ‘A Girl Announcer’s Confessions’. Because it’s Wordless Wednesday I can’t tell you any more. … Continue reading
Posted in A Rebel Hand, Australia, Genealogy
Tagged ABC, Australia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Delaney, memory, Patricia, Wordless Wednesday
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Inside History Magazine’s Top 50 Genealogy Blog Awards
I’m thrilled, humbled and surprised to find this blog, A Rebel Hand, on Inside History Magazine‘ s newly-published list of 50 top genealogy blogs. Thrilled, because who wouldn’t be? It’s a huge honour, coming from the must-read magazine for anyone … Continue reading
Posted in A Rebel Hand, Blogging, Genealogy
Tagged A Rebel Hand, Australia, awards, blog, Blog award, genealogy, genealogy blogging, history, Inside History, top 50
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More positivity in 2012 (Accentuate the Positive part 2)
Are you too hard on yourself about your genealogy or family history work in 2012? Do you think more about what you didn’t achieve, or that ancestor who is still hiding, or whose records seem all to have been destroyed? … Continue reading
Posted in A Rebel Hand, Blogging, Genealogy
Tagged Archives, Australia, Blogging, book, Delany, family history, genealogy, John Simpson, libraries, Nicholas Delaney, Sarah Marshall, Sarah Simpson
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Happy New Year! Accentuate the positive
It’s 2013 at last! I can’t deny that (except on the genealogy front) 2012 was a rubbish year. So I was delighted to see Geniaus suggesting a new geneameme: Accentuate the Positive 2012. What better way to start the new … Continue reading
Posted in A Rebel Hand, Blogging, Genealogy, Nicholas Delaney
Tagged 2012, Anglesey, Blogging, family history, genealogy, geneameme, Mary Maude Wilson, Moyne, New Year, Nicholas Delaney, Sarah Marshall
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Calling all Delaney cousins!
I’ve got a question for you. Would you like an online forum for descendants of Nicholas Delaney where we can meet and share research, ask questions, swap stories, post photos or just get to know each other? I’ve just had … Continue reading
Posted in A Rebel Hand, Nicholas Delaney
Tagged A Rebel Hand, cousin, descendant, family, family forum, family history, genealogy, Nicholas, Nicholas Delaney, relative
Two today!
I nearly missed it. This blog’s second birthday, today, November 10th. In fact it was the wonderful Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers who reminded me in his Blogging Beat. Thanks, Thomas – here’s a virtual birthday cake for you and the … Continue reading
So was Nicholas Delaney murdered? Did John Kennedy hang? (Trove Tuesday post, part 2)
Last Trove Tuesday I started to tell the story of how Nicholas Delaney was attacked and robbed on September 2, 1834, and died the next day. It’s a story about my own ancestor I came across using the National Library … Continue reading
Posted in A Rebel Hand, Nicholas Delaney
Tagged criminal court, Delany, John Kennedy, Murder, Nicholas Delaney, Penrith, Sydney Monitor, trial, Trove Tuesday
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Illuminating Blogger Award – is one of your favourites here?
This week has ended in the most wonderful way. Sharn of Family History 4 u has done me the honour of nominating A Rebel Hand for the Illuminating Blogger Award, set up by Food Stories. Thank you so much, Sharn. … Continue reading
Posted in A Rebel Hand, Blogging, Genealogy
Tagged award, Blogging, Geneabloggers, genealogy, Illuminating Blogger Award, Nicholas Delaney, Sarah Marshall, Sarah Simpson, st kilda
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Transports of delight – researching the book about Nicholas
I’m feeling thrilled and very honoured. The Irish genealogy online magazine, Irish Lives Remembered, has just (July 10th) published a two-page article about Nicholas Delaney, the great-great-great grandfather and transported convict whose life inspired this blog and its sister website. … Continue reading
Posted in 1798, A Rebel Hand, Convicts, Ireland, Nicholas Delaney
Tagged 1798, A Rebel Hand, Australia, Blogging, Convict, genealogy, Ireland, Irish Lives Remembered
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Some happy finds
Sometimes I come across a batch of lucky A Rebel Hand-related discoveries on the net and it’s good to share them, so here’s a round-up. The Convict Maid Following on from my last one, about women convicts and the early … Continue reading
Posted in 1798, A Rebel Hand, Australia, Convicts
Tagged A Rebel Hand, Australia, Billy Byrne, Convict, Ireland, Irish Rebellion of 1798, Secret River
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