Lilian's Tree

Saturday April 12 - K Katoomba -   (Co Cook)  33°43’S 150°19’E Katoomba is 102km (63mi) west of Sydney and is 1,017m above sea level. Home to the iconic Three Sisters, a rock formation on the escarpment. Their names are Meehni (922m), Wimlah (918m) and Gunnedoo (906m). You can read about them here Three Sisters                                                    The Three Sisters and the Jamison Valley. Kedumba or Katta-toon-bah is an Aboriginal term for "shining falling water" or "water tumbling over hill"    and takes its name from a waterfall that drops into the Jamison Valley.   Kootingal -  (Co. Inglis) 31°03’S 151°03’E Aboriginal meaning Sisters. On Sandy Creek. Village gazetted first as Ragill, then Kootingal. Kootingal was the place where my father0in-law was born, on the family farm. The cem...

                                                    Henry Edward Vaughan. (Since I'm doing this in the hope of finding 'cousins', I haven't any documents for Henry. I have used Trove and the New South Wales, BDM's.) Henry, Henry, Henry, what a merry dance your have lead me on!  I thought I had you neatly packaged up, born, married, had children and died. But no! I know you are the eldest son of Henry and Charlotte, born in 1842, most likely in Sydney. Then I find you, in 1862 getting married to Mary Ann Brown. Seven children follow; 1863 Henry Neatby; 1865 James G; 1867 Alfred E; 1870 Charlotte Alice, died 1871; 1872 Lydia C; 1875 Walter Oliver; 1877 George Atherden.  Finally your death in 1901. But it is what lies betw...

                                                                  Photos Hands up, who has boxes of photos, with nothing written on the back?  Me too! How do you store your photos? Albums, boxes, on the computer? I have a mix of all three.  I promise myself that I will write who, where and when they were taken but I don't. My new digital camera has GPS, so now when I upload my photos to the computer, it tells me where and when it was taken. I have wonderful old photos, that I know are family but exactly who they are is lost. Mum did write on the back of some but a Mrs Bell??? I have know idea. This one is a mystery. I know that the two small...