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| Thelma Palin (in solders uniform) and friend |
Showing posts with label Palin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Palin. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Wordless Wednesday - Thelma Linda Vida Palin
In keeping with the ANZAC celebrations of this week, here is a picture of my great Aunt Thelma Palin and a friend. Thelma was born in Solomon Town, South Australia on the 11 August 1900, and her parents were Charles Palin and Eliza Golding. Thelma would have been about 15-16 years of age and living in Broken Hill, NSW, Australia. The inscription at the bottom of the picture shows that the picture was taken in a Studio in Broken Hill. I wonder whose uniform she has borrowed for the photo?
Monday, October 22, 2012
Jacob Golding - 1839- 1907
A wonderful lady from the Kaniva District Historical Society had found quite a few bits and pieces including death notice and an application for land. This extra information has inspired me to write the little I know about Jacob Golding.
He was born in 1940 in Oakington, Cambridge, England, the seventh child of Edward Golding (1806-1873) and Maria Gee (1801-1892). In 1852 the family along with some of Jacob's Aunts, Uncles and cousins made the decision to immigrate to Adelaide, South Australia. Twenty members of the family left from Plymouth on the 30th April 1852 on the Epamidonas arriving in Adelaide on the 2 August 1852. The family settled in the Strathalbyn district of South Australia.
At the age of 17 He married Rebecca Anne Taylor, who had immigrated from Ireland in the late 1850's. They lived and farmed in the Strathalbyn and Narracoorte Districts for a number of years. Time were difficult, and the farming life was hard. In one year all his crops were destroyed by fire and then two years later ruined by floods.*
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| Jacob Golding Land Application |
Jacob and Rebecca were blessed with a number of children, however their first two children Jacob (1858-1860) and Eliza (1860-1861) died in early infancy. Looking to improve living conditions for their family Jacob and Rebecca moved to Victoria with their family of eight surviving children (William, b. 1863, Margaret (1865-1949), Priscilla Ann (1870-1905), Eliza (my great grandmother) (1872-1953), Jacob (b. 1874), David (1877-1956), Jemima (1879-1945) and Henry Edward (1881-1946). The family first moved to Tattiara and then four years later took up a selection of 320 acres in the parish of Kaniva. Jacob then rented an additional 320 acres and as outlined in (Victoria and its Metropolis, Past and Present, vol 11, 1888, p. 128) he cropped 360 acres annually.
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| Wheat farming in Kaniva District |
In 1886 he was elected as a member of the local Lowan Shire, he was re-elected as valuer and later elected to the position of Shire Secretary. He held this appointment until the day of his death. His obituary describes him as a
"self-educated man with a natural shrewdness which enabled him to fulfil his difficult clerical position with rare ability, and the auditors invariably recorded highly favorable minutes concerning his admirable book-keeping methods".
Jacob was a very busy man fulfilling roles of valuer, overseer of works, thistle inspector of the shire, shire secretary and secretary to the Lawloit Waterworks Trust.
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| Jacob and Rebecca Golding with their daughter Pricilla |
Family stories relate that he was a very strict family man who adhered to the ways of the Methodist church. The family story, of when my great grandmother Eliza Golding had a child out of wedlock, was that she was forced to give the child up for adoption and her father (Jacob) arranged for her to travel with her brother David to Western Australia where he had arranged her marriage to Charles Palin. His obituary reports that he was,
"a prominent member and highly useful worker of the Methodist denomination, and frequently occupied the pulpit as an acceptable local lay preacher."
On the 7th of July 1907, a Sunday evening, Jacob died unexpectedly of heart failure. It was a great shock to the family and community. Just prior to his death, he had been in his study, and had written a number of letter to local businessmen, one of which was arranging a meeting with the local Shire Secretary. As the South Australian Advertiser reported his grand-daughter had the misfortune to discover him.
"Mr Jacob Golding secretary of the Lawloit Shire Council at Kaniva ate a hearty tea and retired for a smoke. His granddaughter went into the room and saw that his head was leaning on his shoulder, and his eyes closed. The pipe was still between his teeth. The girl first thought her grandfather was pretending to be asleep but as he did not move she became alarmed and called her uncle, who thought he was dead. Dr Drew was immediately called in, and announced it to be a case of heart failure." **
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| Jacob Golding - death Certificate |
It cannot be denied that Jacob lived a full life rising from very humble beginnings, traveling to a new country with his family as a young boy.
He spent many years struggling to make a living to support his family and with his hard endeavour he managed to leave his mark on the local community of Kaniva and the surrounding area.
Those who are researching the Golding family in Australia know that they had a great influence on colonial South Australia and Victoria, and I think Jacob's story definitely holds its place amongst the pioneers of early Australia.
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** South Australian Advertiser, 17 July 1907
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Wordless Wednesday: Christina Carriage and Hazel Herbert
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| My Grandmothers: Hazel Herbert (nee Palin) and Christina Carriage (nee Lee) |
In my blog The Other Half of My Family Tree - stories of my female ancestors, a project in which I aim to tell stories of the women in my family tree, I have so far written about both my grandmothers, Edna Hazel Palin and Christina Sterland Lee. Last night while I was searching through an old album of my fathers for photos for the final chapter on the story on Edna Hazel Palin, I found the picture above. It is a rare picture of both my Grandmothers, which must have been taken around the time my parents were married and Hazel and Roy Herbert (my mothers parents) came all the way from Broken Hill to Milton on the coast of NSW to visit my fathers mother, Christina and step father, Lionel Carriage. Such a great find!!! I had to share it on Wordless Wednesday.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Follow Friday - An accumulation of my weekly research
As I research my family tree and information for my blogs I find that each week I discover new and interesting resources. I save these links into my Delicious Account as described in by blog "Delicious and Genealogy - A Great Family Tree Research Tool" . To follow on from this I though it would be a good idea to share my weekly discoveries with other family tree researchers by posting a weekly summary of the sites that I have stumbled upon over the past week. So here goes!! I hope you find some useful information or resources in my first of my weekly, "Follow Friday - An accumulation of my weekly research" posts. I would also like to encourage other researchers to share related sites that they have come across in their research.
The focus of my research this week has been on the life of Women in Broken Hill, are a number of sites that I have found both interesting and useful as I search for more background information on my maternal grandmother Edna Hazel Palin who was born in Broken Hill.
This site includes some great pages with a history of women, and stories of influential women and a wonderful collection of old photos.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Australian Women’s Archive Project
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| Women assaulting Strike Breakers in Broken Hill |
One of the things that I enjoy most when researching my family tree, is that nearly every day I discover a new resource, blog or web page that leads me to discover whole new dimension in understanding our past and identity. I have recently started another blog, "The Other Half of My Family Tree: stories of my female ancestors" in which I plan to write stories about the women in my family tree.
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| Dust Storms in Broken Hill |
As most genealogical researchers know, due to a number of factors, it is harder to find information on our grandmothers and great aunts than it is to research our male ancestors. Yesterday, I was searching the Internet for a story on my maternal grandmother Edna Palin, (1910-1957) when I came across a new web site.
I was looking up “women’s history, Broken Hill” and came across the Web Page “Unbroken Spirit, Women in Broken Hill. Imagine my delight! This site is dedicated to telling the story of the women from the mining city of Broken Hill, the city that I, my mother, my grandmother were born in. The women of Broken Hill lived in one of the harshest environments imaginable. They lived through dust storms, droughts, extreme temperatures and a volatile political environment that saw years of strikes and picket lines. Yet they managed to raise their families, support their husbands, establish health care, schools, and even theatre groups.
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| Women's Memorial - Broken Hill |
Along with a large collection of images from these times, the site provides a list of Women in Broken Hill. This list includes the story and details of Dr Franziska Schlink (1910-1965) who not only was my mother and grandmother’s doctor, but was the doctor present at my birth at the Broken Hill Base Hospital. Dr Schlink’s story is fascinating, and I must write a story on her at a later stage.
As I found my way around the “Unbroken Spirit, Women in Broken Hill” web page I discovered that it was linked to the Australian Women’s Archive Project. How had I not come across this before??
For anyone who is looking to research and gain a better understanding of the legacy and history of Australian Women this is a wonderful resource. The purpose of this Project is to preserve The History of Australian Women as outlined by the site.
“Records about women provide the basis of all the work of the Australian Women's Archive Project. To ensure records are available in the future, AWAP promotes the keeping and care of personal records and encourages individuals and organisations to deposit records appropriately in available archives and libraries.”
I hope my new discovery is of help to other family tree researchers and perhaps you will consider contributing to the evergrowing resources of the Australian Women's Archive Project.
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