Telling stories from photographs

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....

Piecing together this timepiece’s journey

This picture is of a pocket watch (or fob watch) manufactured sometime in the 1800s in Scotland with the name “Geo. Donald” inscribed on it. It is in the possession of descendants of James Silver who grew up in Scotland and moved to Australia in 1890 when...

James Silver

James Silver came to Australia in 1892 where he was later joined by his fiancee Janet Todd. They married in Brisbane, Queensland, before moving more than 200km west to Kooroongarra where they raised their family. They later returned to Brisbane where James continued...

Ina Silver dairy

Below are some entries from a diary kept by Ina Silver (daughter of James & Ann Silver) on her trip to Scotland in 1914, with her widowed mother Ann Findlay Silver & brother Ronald Silver.  June 1914 to Nov. 8, 1914 Portions of this diary were copied by Mary...

My grandmother Margaret Isabella Silver

First teacher at Malakoff Road State School in 1913 By Warren Nunn WALTER Chamberlain was a determined man; so too were his neighbours and friends _ solid citizens like John Condon, Fred Campbell, John Tomkins, Stephen Wallace, John Hoefler and John Hunter. Farming...