William Avis, the Pear Tree publican

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Nearly 50 years at same alehouse When newspapers record details of a funeral, it greatly helps family researchers to identify more than one generation. When a publican named William Avis died in Whepstead, Suffolk, England in 1941, it ended his 50-year association...

Telling stories from photographs

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Old images give up their secrets For anyone fortunate enough to have photographs of family members going back multiple generations, identifying people can be almost impossible. Fortunately some images have names on them and others are recognisable from later pictures....

The Boolburra family Bible

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Enduring message for the generations Updated 8 September 2020 What to make of a small, rectangular piece of needlework into which is stitched a plaited lock of hair and on which is inscribed: “TOKEN (or TOKEII) A TO W S”? …. Or should it in fact read: “A...

The passage of time takes its toll at Boolburra

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But our memories live on By Warren Nunn In several trips to Boolburra over the years, I’ve photographed the site where my grandparents Alex and Bella Dobbs onced lived. In about 1995 my uncle, Jim Dobbs, had the house removed from the site and relocated to...

With life comes death

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Updated with photographs June 2021 Cemeteries record in some small way something about how people lived. There are countless burial grounds throughout the world that are forgotten and inaccessible. In an area less than 100km from the Central Queensland city of...