I went to the South Australian Museum with my Mum today. One of our favourite parts is the Egyptian Room. Mum remembers the room and the wall paintings from when she was little and we wondered when they were done. Huge colored wall drawings tell the history and mythology of ancient Egypt. The sky … [Read more…]
What did Hazor Humphrey Bodger, my 3x great uncle, say to the judges at the Strathalbyn Show on March 4 1869? Hazor was a farmer in McHarg’s Creek, South Australia, and from newspaper advertisements and articles I can see that he was breeding and showing draught horses in South Australia for a number of years. … [Read more…]
I searched Trove for the words Buring tobacconist (my 2x great grandfather Heinrich Franz Rudolph Buring was a tobacconist in Adelaide, South Australia) to see what I might find and the following article resulted. This is something I never knew about and a totally unexpected result from a search for tobacconists. [trove newspaper=95799359] Phillip Rushton … [Read more…]