Wigley Family – Kylie's Genes Blog

A Precious Treasure

March 4, 2014 by kira0030 7 Comments

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 … [Read more…]

A Cornish-man In Bendigo

March 9, 2012 by kira0030 4 Comments

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 … [Read more…]