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Sarah Marshall 200: a floating brothel
Sarah Marshall – a prostitute? On board the convict ship Friendship II Continue reading
Posted in Convicts, Transportation
Tagged convict ship, Convicts, Friendship, prostitution, Sarah Marshall, Sarah Simpson, Transportation
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Sarah Marshall 200: convict ship Friendship II
200 years ago Sarah Marshall arrived in New South Wales on the convict transport ship Friendship II. What happened? Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Convicts, Macquarie, Transportation
Tagged #Sarah200, 1818, Convict, convict ship, convict women, Friendship, Sarah Marshall, Sarah Simpson, Transportation
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Five years of genealogy blogging
It’s my fifth blogiversary this week. I can hardly believe I’ve been geneablogging for five years! So much has changed since then. I started out posting so that I could add new information which wasn’t available when my mother and … Continue reading
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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Genealogy news updates
I’ve been working on something big – and very tricky. Chipping away at a big brick wall, and I’ll be back to report when I’ve got something more useful to say. So in the meantime, here are some interesting developments … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Genealogy, Ireland
Tagged Australia, census, Convict, family history, genealogy, Ireland, Irish, James Thomas Richards, John Simpson, Nicholas Delaney, Sarah Marshall
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Australia Day Challenge 2014: C’mon Aussie
I do love the genealogy online community. People help one another, collaborate, chat and set up memes and challenges. Here’s the latest geneachallenge – it’s for Australia Day, from that bonza blogger Pauleen Cass of Family history across the seas. … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Blogging, Convicts
Tagged 1798, Atlas II, Australia, Blogging, Convict, family history, Friendship, genealogy, James Thomas Richards, John Simpson, Nicholas Delaney, Sarah Marshall, Transportation
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National Family History Month – and some of my ancestors
Did you hear about National Family History Week in Australia last year? Well, the country-wide programme of family history events has been extended to the whole of August for 2013. New Zealand is holding its own sister event, too. If … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Genealogy
Tagged Ann Graham, Bailey, Bayley, Bayly, Elizabeth, genealogy, James Thomas Richards, John Simpson, Mary Maude Wilson, Nicholas Delaney, Nicholas Delany, Rebecca Harrington, Sarah Emma Henley, Sarah Marshall, Thomas Delaney, Thomas Robert Sandon Wilson, Thomas Winter
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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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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
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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When John met Sarah – convict courtship
How did my 3x great grandparents, John and Sarah Simpson, meet? They were quick workers, we know that. John Simpson disembarked at Sydney Cove on January 16, 1818 and Sarah Marshall a week or so after. About a month later, … Continue reading
The Factory above the Gaol – women convicts in 1818
When my great-great-great grandmother Sarah Marshall stumbled off the convict transport Friendship on January 14, 1818, she emerged from a traumatic journey of confinement and scurvy which became notorious for ‘indecent and licentious intercourse’ to find herself in an alien … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Convicts, Transportation
Tagged Australia, Convict, Female Factory, John Simpson, Macquarie, Sarah Marshall, Sarah Simpson, Sarah's grave, Transportation, women convicts
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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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Tombstone Tuesday: Sarah’s haunted grave
At last I’m posting a photograph of the grave of my great-great-great grandmother, Sarah Simpson, who arrived in New South Wales as a convict on the Friendship in 1818. Sarah Marshall, as she was then, was lucky to be sentenced … Continue reading
Posted in Convicts, Nicholas Delaney
Tagged Australia, Convict, convict ship, Friendship, genealogy, Sarah Marshall, Sarah Simpson, Sarah's grave
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