Wigley Family

A Precious Treasure

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I received an email from a distant cousin, Carmel, a couple of days ago. She found me via my tree website kyliesgenes.com and told me that she had a photograph of my 2x great uncle Charles Noah Wigley which she wanted to pass on.  The photograph arrived today and I am ‘over the moon’.  Charles was a saddler and in 1919 was working for G. Harper Esq. of Charing Cross, Bendigo.  He later had his own saddlery.

Photograph of Charles Noah Wigley

Charles Noah Wigley 15 May 1919, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

The photograph is on its original mounting and was taken at the Kalma Photographic Studio in Pall Mall, Bendigo.  It is a coarse, matt photographic paper and it looks to me like a faded sepia print.  The photo is glued to the mount.  It has had some water damage in the past which thankfully hasn’t marred the picture.

Now I have some more research to do about Charles’ lodge and the positions he held in it.

 

A Cornish-man In Bendigo

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Cornish Pasty

There was another old Cornish-man working on the Garden Gully line noted for his insatiable appetite for Cornish pasties. For his lunch each day, or, as he called it, for “krowst,” he would bring an immense pasty about 18in. long.  He was a man who looked ahead, for, as a young man, on the point of leaving Cornwall for Australia, he had tattooed on his chest his mother’s recipe for making a Cornish pasty. Later on, this was of great assistance to his Australian-born wife.  Taken from “Stories Of The Cornish Miners” http://home.vicnet.net.au/~bendcorn/miners_in_bendigo.html

Some of my ancestors worked mines on the Garden Gully line.  I wonder if they knew this man with the pasty recipe tattoo.