Computers and Family History

For many of us, computers have become an essential tool in searching for information about our ancestors. Joy Roy, FGSV (1998) who is a member of GUM (Genealogists using Microcomputers) group, author of several books, and principal researcher for...

Alexander McGregor – The Story of his Journal

This article is in response to a recent suggestion asking if I could tell more about finding “Alexander’s” journal. So here goes: After my father’s death in 1965 we found among his papers some notes and letters which indicated he had been...

Thomas Rea – Gunsmith and Balloonist

Thomas Rea was a native of Roxburghshire in Scotland. He is thought to have been baptised at Jedburgh, Roxburghshire on 26 June 1811, the son of John Rea and Isabella Armstrong who had been married at Kelso on 14 November 1806. Thomas was married on 7 October 1833 at...

Thomas Napier

In the Supreme Court – Napier v. Snodgrass (defendant) & Chisholm v. Snodgrass On Monday, the 4th day of April 1842, at the Lamb Inn, Melbourne, the Deputy-Sherriff will cause to be sold, and to be delivered at the station –...

David and Alexina Duncan

Mr. Duncan and his wife Alexina voyaged to Port Phillip on the first settlers’ ship, the “David Clark” in 1839. After putting his hand to a variety of jobs, in 1848 Mr. Duncan became a member of the provisional committee to report on the formation...