365 Project – April 2012

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Julie Goucher
April 1 2012Tue, April 3, 2012Mon, April 2, 2012Wed, April 4, 2012Thu, April 5, 2012Wed, April 25, 2012
Mon, April 23, 2012Sat, April 21, 2012Fri, April 20, 2012Thu, April 19, 2012Wed, April 18, 2012Mon, April 16, 2012
Tue, April 17, 2012Sun, April 15, 2012Tue, April 17, 2012Fri, April 13, 2012Thu, April 12, 2012Tue, April 10, 2012
Sun, April 8, 2012Mon, April 9, 2012Sat, April 7, 2012Fri, April 6, 2012Tue, April 24, 2012Mon, April 30, 2012
View the complete month at 2012 – A Year in Photographs.
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100 Word Challenge – Week 40

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Julie Goucher
Joining the weekly 100 words challenge for Grown ups. This week the prompt is to use the following prompt, 

RUBY

He was at the table, hoping that she would soon arrive; he was not very good at being patient. The item sat in his pocket, and it was all he could do to not take it out and have another look at it, all red and twinkly. Eventually she arrived and he was overwhelmed at her beauty. As she approached the table he stood and gently kissed her cheek. Sitting back down their fingers gently touched as they looked at each other.  

He reached into his pocket and removed the box. Slowly opening it he placed it on the table and said 

“will you”?

Taking part in the 100 word Challenge for Grown Ups – Week #40
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The Best Australian Blogs 2012 Competition

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Julie Goucher

A few weeks ago I saw the Best Australian Blogs 2012 Competition  mentioned somewhere on the net, then I realised that my genea-blogging friend, Geniaus had been nominated.

The Finalists have now been decided and I looked through the list of over 1,000 blogs written by Australians, or Australians living overseas.

The point of this post is that whether or not they made it to the final, simply being nominated and then having the blog address listed in the huge list of over a 1,000 contenders is great.

Have a look HERE to see some great blogs. The following is a list (in random order) of ones that caught my eye.

There are many, many more on the list, which is located HERE
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ABC Award

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Julie Goucher

Back in March, I received a lovely surprise; Kate of Believe Anyway had nominated Anglers Rest for The ABC (Awesome Blog Content) Award. Thank you. I am always amazed at the positivity of others in response to my rambling & obsessive blog posts! 

**List 26 things about me in alphabetical order

**Pass the award along

I have saved responding to the award until today, because I thought it was a nice way to conclude this years A-Z Blogging Challenge, although the official reflective post will be made next week. 

Instead of 26 things about me, I am sharing 26 sites that I came across during the A-Z Challenge. Selecting 26 out of the thousands of sites out there in the ether is hard work because there are so many wonderful, informative and creative sites.


I am going to loan another $25 to the Kiva Project that I have mentioned several times on this blog. I am a member of the Genealogists for Families Team.

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Blogging A-Z – April Challenge – Z is for ….

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Julie Goucher

Z is for…… Zealous and Zestful
The letter Z was tricky to cover. I sat and brainstormed all the words that I feel sums up the Australian way of life,its history, diversity, cultural and enthusiasm and many more, then I came up with were Zealous and Zestful which fitted the Z bill nicely.
Whether initially migration to Australia happened as a result of being a convict or through choosing to live in a new colony, the output was the same. A new life and beginning, not just in terms of the individual concerned, but also of the Colony. As the Colony filled with migrants from across the globe, each bring with them their own cultures, ways of life and passions those early immigrants have passed onto future generations of Australians that same love and enthusiasm for acceptance.
Australia is not a perfect Country, but what one is? What it has is, a zealousness for life, a passion of living, which is possibly a legacy of those early convicts, or those who came to a new Country to avoid famine, persecution and to gain freedom.
That concludes the A-Z for 2012. I have loved every minute of it. There is a little extra post coming up and a reflections of A-Z 2012 next week.

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Colbrook’s Ice Factory, Guildford, Circa 1930

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Julie Goucher

Colbrook’s ice factory was part of the selection of businesses owned by the family. The family moved from Sussex to the Guildford area where they opened a butchers shop in the High Street. By the late 1860s they had opened a butchers shop in North Street and an ice factory. By about 1930 a further ice factory was owned and located in Walnut Tree Close.

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Carnival Of Genealogy 117 – 1940!

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Julie Goucher

Like many researchers, I was quite excited when the 1940 Federal US Census was released. After all, we only had one known family who would have been recorded in the Census and that was my husband’s Great Grandmother, her second husband and their son. I had successfully managed to build a profile of their life from 1905 when Annie arrived in the US up until the late 1940s, so locating the family in the Census was going to be easy, right?

Wrong! It has been anything but!

Annie & Harry Hindle, both born in Yorkshire migrated in 1905. At that time Annie was married to Charles Worship, and her divorce didn’t become final until 1921 and she married Harry in 1922. I have written fairly extensively over the last couple of years about Annie and Harry Hindle and you can read an earlier post HERE.

Annie Hindle, Nee Rhodes and Formerly Worship
Taken circa 1921 Passport

I used the Census tracker aligning the address from the 1930 Census but that didn’t reveal the Hindle’s. I searched again using the same method in case I had missed it, but no. I returned to the original material I had and followed the address trail. Passenger lists for 1946 and the burial record of Henry and Annie in 1952 and 1953, respectively revealed the same address so that would be my starting point.

The address in question was 14 North Belfield Ave, Havertown Pennsylvania. The Census locator on The National Archives site uses the streets that intersect as a research guide. This is quite useful, if you know the area, so a search of a map was made. Just as I was about to head to Google Maps, I simply put the address into Google on the off chance it revealed any data. I was surprised to see this page which is really aimed at those buying and selling property, but does give some information. The year the house built is wrong, because we have the passenger lists for 1946, but the site is very useful. There are current review of the area, a detailed description of the house and a close up map with the property pin pointed.

Despite all the hours searching, I still can not find the family in the 1940 Census. There are several possibilities  as to why –

  1. My lack of familiarity with US Counties within the States
  2. My lack of understanding the framing & recording of the Census route
  3. The family were in the UK at the point of the Census
A disappointing state of events, but it does confirm the worth of indexes that are being created by those reading and researching with the Census. I wrote about this HERE.

The Carnival of Genealogy is hosted by Jasia at CreativeGene

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Sunday Obituary – Harriet Butcher (1811 – 1896)

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Julie Goucher
The Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania
Saturday, 2nd May 1896

Australian Newspaper Archives

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Guildford High Street Circa 1906

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Julie Goucher
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Sunday Stamps – Australia – ANZAC Day

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Julie Goucher

I’ve gone off theme this week. On 25th April, New Zealanders and Australians celebrated ANZAC Day and in keeping with remembering that day, which ties in nicely with the A-Z Challenge I have kept to the theme of Australia. You can read the A-Z challenge posts via this tag line and read my ANZAC Day post HERE.

Commemoration stamps 1935
Commemoration stamps 1965
Stamps from the neighbouring Islands:

Submitted as Sunday Stamps hosted by Viridian’s Postcard Blog
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