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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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Delaneys return to the Royal Botanic Garden
Descendants of Nicholas Delaney, the man who built Mrs Macquarie’s Road in Sydney, celebrate its 200th anniversary Continue reading
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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Australia’s oldest bridge revisited
Sometimes a friendly email brings unexpected genealogy bonuses. My Delaney (and Simpson) cousins are generous with their information about our ancestors, and one of the people who helped my mother and me with researching our book, A Rebel Hand: Nicholas … Continue reading
A ‘Girl Announcer’ confesses… Trove Tuesday post
OK, I admit, I was naughty when I posted that ‘Wordless Wednesday’ picture. I kept wordless shtum about who the ‘girl announcer’ was, though many of you guessed… But I did promise to reveal all on Trove Tuesday, so – … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Genealogy
Tagged Announcer, Australia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, broadcasting, Delaney, Trove, Trove Tuesday
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Vinegar Hill – the Irish rebels’ last stand
This weekend (August 3 – 4, 2013) the Irish rebels (cheers!) and the redcoats (boo!) have been recruiting, drilling, camping and fighting around Vinegar Hill in County Wexford. They’ve been re-enacting the last full battle of the Irish Rebellion of … Continue reading
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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Moyne in the Mercury
Moyne Farm is in the news. The farm, near Little Hartley in New South Wales, an area where many Delaneys worked and raised their families in the nineteenth century, is the subject of a recent article in the Lithgow Mercury. … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Ireland
Tagged Blue Mountains, Delaney, Delany, Hartley, John Delaney, John Grant, Little Hartley, Moyne, Moyne farm
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On the twelfth day of Christmas
So the decorations are down and the cards are ready to be recycled. It’s a flat sort of day. Especially since the next day is a Monday this year, and Real Life starts up in earnest for everyone. Until the … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy
Tagged Christmas, Delaney, Delany, family, family history, Little Christmas, Twelfth Day
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Time to branch out?
It’s Start Your Family Tree Week again. How’s yours? Mine has grown a little, it’s less lop-sided than last year’s. But I’m going to be doing a bit of tree surgery and root-nourishing over the festive season. If you’d like … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy
Tagged Delaney, Delany, family history, family tree, Find My Past, genealogy, Ireland, Nicholas Delaney
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Merry Christmas!
A century or two ago – the time I’m blogging about – Christmas celebrations began on the 24th or 25th of December. The feast went on until Twelfth Night (January 6th). So I’ll be blogging more about Christmas past over … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging
Tagged Christmas, Delaney, Delany, family, family history, family tree
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How did Nicholas Delaney die? A murder mystery (Trove Tuesday post)
Nicholas Delaney is something of a hero to me and many of his other descendants. An Irish rebel in 1798, he escaped being hung and built a new life for himself and his family in early colonial New South Wales. … Continue reading
Posted in Nicholas Delaney
Tagged Delaney, John Kennedy, Justice Burton, Murder, Nicholas Delaney, Penrith, Sydney Monitor, Trove Tuesday
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My first Christmas – a link with the past
I treasure this photograph. It’s of my grandfather, Laurence Thomas Delaney, holding me on his knee on my first Christmas Day. He’s my link to all the generations of Delaneys (and Marshalls, Simpsons, Wilsons and Henleys) in Australia over two … Continue reading
Posted in Australia
Tagged Delaney, family, genealogy, Laurence Thomas Delaney, Moyne, Sarah Marshall, Sarah Simpson
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