family history and genealogy
Moira on the left as a young child with her brother Ray, and sisters Kathleen and Ann. Her youngest sister Marion was not born at this time The first person to come to mind when I saw the heading was my mother Moira Joan LOADES née COOPER. Born at Naracoorte in May 1930, the second... Continue Reading →
I have written an earlier post called "Contesting a Will" that people may like to read. The will that was contested was that belonging to Edward Waller LOADES. It was one of three wills that I applied for and received from the Courts in Adelaide in 2012. Wills can be succinct or rich sources of... Continue Reading →
Aunt Ett's Box “I’m sitting on the box!” is heard throughout the house at any family gathering. It is the right of the youngest child to sit on the box. There they can then be at table height and join in the family meal. The box at the end of the table once belonged to... Continue Reading →
No great love stories have been handed down through the ages in the family. As children we always imagined that our grandfather Edward Waller LOADES and his wife Jessie May HALL had the great romance. Was this because they were just pictures that we saw and a gold brooch. My paternal grandparents passed away in... Continue Reading →
I am not sure that I have found a favourite Name while researching family history. What I have found is names that are repeated overtime within the family either intentionally or unintentionally. In my own family were were all given a middle name that was from the our grandparents or great grandparents. My middle name... Continue Reading →
Edward Waller LOADES was the first ancestor that I found in the census. Having and unusual name, although there are miss spellings and somewhere along the way an 'e' was added to LOADS, makes it easy to follow the family history trail. The shipping records for South Australia told us that the Edward Waller LOADES... Continue Reading →
Henry George COOPER better known as Harry would be my invite to dinner. Harry is my maternal grandfather. He died when I was 9 in 1966. Harry always had lots of stories to tell about members of the family young and old. He was always happy to share his memories and stories of his grandmothers,... Continue Reading →
When Mary GIBBS died the Naracoorte Herald wrote an article called Death of a Nonagenarian[i]. Mary was 92 years of age when she died at the home of her daughter Mary HOCKING[ii]. Family lore tells us that Mary GIBBS was an Irish women and this is substantiated in her obituary[iii] and on her death certificate.... Continue Reading →
The 3 photos above show four generations of the LOADES family riding or playing on motorbikes. A coincidence or a trait, who knows? It is a photo of my grandfather Edward Waller LOADES known as Ted. The photo would have been taken sometime in the latter half of the 1930's. Ted was born... Continue Reading →
For the start of my 52 ancestors in 52 weeks Challenge I am going to write about my maternal grandfather Henry George COOPER (also known as Harry). Over the holidays I have been on redoing my maternal line following the COOPERS from South Australia back to Helions Bumpstead in Essex and Castle Camps in Cambridgeshire.... Continue Reading →
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