I’ve uploaded family tree information to this section of my site. The default tree is Gorey. To get the Wassenberg tree, hover your mouse over Welcome or follow this link .
I’m using PhpGedView . It was very easy to install and upload the gedcom files. I’ll experiment with design tweaks and other features [...]
The life of great-aunt Margaret Elizabeth Gorey was sadly cut short in tragic circumstances.
Born at Corop on March 1, 1876, Margaret was the eldest child of Edward and Sophia Gorey. Soon after her birth she was taken to be baptised at the Catholic Church in Heathcote on April 16, 1876.
She was living with her parents [...]
My great-grandmother Sophia Evans was the daughter of James Evans and Sarah Hardwick. James was from South Wales and Sarah from Herefordshire in England. They married in the Church of England at Whitchurch, Hereford, on July 25, 1849.
After arriving in Port Phillip, they moved around Melbourne and the goldfields before settling at Woodend where [...]
This is the story of my great-great grandfather, James Evans, as best I can tell it from researching newspapers and public records. His daughter Sophia Evans married my great-grandfather Edward Gorey.
I would really like to know more about James but have hit so many dead ends. I would also like to know if I [...]
I’m reorganising the content of the former family history section to make it appear as part of this WordPress site. That’s why there will be a fair sprinkling of historical material over the next few weeks.
The direct link will be to the History category. Discussion can occur either on the individual posts or in the [...]
Picture: Angustown Primary School, some time in the 1890s
After moving frequently about the Corop and Echuca districts early in their marriage, Edward and Sophia Gorey settled at Angustown near Whroo in 1889.
A list provided to the Education Department about 1890 shows that four children of Edward Gorey were attending the recently opened Angustown State School. [...]
Anzac Day has captured the public imagination in Australia. My Anzac Day reflection is to acknowledge that all four of my grandfather’s brothers served in the First World War.
I remember attending April 25 parades as a cub scout in Traralgon where the returned soldiers outnumbered the spectators. There were Boer War veterans in the earliest [...]
Yesterday I wrote about how the 1939 bushfire destroyed my grandparents’ home at Icy Creek and claimed the life of my uncle Michael Gorey at Tanjil Bren.
The picture shows my father Peter leaving the Warragul relief depot with a donated pair of boots. It was published in a newspaper and he was three years old [...]
This is a photograph of my uncle Michael Gorey, taken I think in 1938. He was born in 1919 at Waubra and died on January 13, 1939 at Tanjil Bren.
I was prompted to think of him by an unexpected web reference on the ABC. Mick was killed in the 1939 bushfires, one of [...]
This is a remarkable genealogical story. What I write here is based on facts as far I can establish them.
If these facts are proven I can claim descent from Robert the Bruce, other Scottish kings, Henry II of England and even Fergus of Ireland and Scotland.
I registered at www.ancestry.com.au this morning. I hit the usual [...]
