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Alexander “Sandy” Albion and Ellen Mann

Published date June 5, 2025 Categories Blog / Family history / Personal / Ruminations Comments: 0

My prompt for this quest was the mystery of who Sandy Albion was to me. It appears he was my great-grandfather. After exploring his background and that of his wife, Ellen, I can finally tell what I found of his story.

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John Mann & Susan Crouch

Published date May 26, 2025 Categories Blog / Family history / Ruminations Comments: 0

I’ve now made what sense I can of the second set of great-great-grandparents on the Albion branch of my family tree. They travelled from New South Wales to Queensland and then westward.

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John Crouch and Elizabeth Harvey

Published date May 21, 2025 Categories Blog / Family history / Personal / Ruminations Comments: 0

This set of great-great-great-grandparents married in England before migrating to Australia. They worked hard to make a life here and contributed to the expanding population.

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John Simon Mann and Eleanor Goodridge

Published date May 10, 2025 Categories Blog / Family history / Personal / Ruminations Comments: 0

I was able to go a little deeper down the ancestral rabbit hole this time. John Simon Mann and Eleanor Goodridge, my great-great-great-grandparents, met and married at Port Macquarie where they had been transported as convicts.

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Who’s afraid of the independents?

Published date April 15, 2025 Categories Blog / Politics / Ruminations Comments: 0

As the election nears the fear of our local LNP is becoming palpable. Rather than promoting their own thin package of policies they are attacking the independents. That’s an admission that they don’t have the answers they claim the independents cannot provide.

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Vote independent

Published date April 6, 2025 Categories Blog / Politics / Ruminations

It’s election time. In 2022 there was reason to hope that a change of government might bring vision and conviction. Unfortunately that went to water. In 2025 we need a different change.

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Rachel Patience Lawson Whitley

Published date March 18, 2025 Categories Family history / Personal / Ruminations

My great-great-grandmother, Rachel, left her native Ireland for New South Wales. She lived a hard life at times and was sometimes in trouble with the law. Hers is an interesting story.

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Alexander Albin (Albion)

Published date March 17, 2025 Categories Family history / Personal / Ruminations

My great-great-grandfather, Alexander, left his native Ireland for Sydney, moved on to Toowoomba, and then went west. There were some bumps along the way but he built a life for himself and his sons.

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My ancestral rabbit hole

Published date March 13, 2025 Categories Blog / Entertainment / Family history / Personal / Ruminations

I’ve had a couple of false starts at family history over the years. This time I made more progress along one line than previously and thought it worth telling the story. Now that I have a taste for it I might dig some more.

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How can Australia move forward?

Published date March 6, 2025 Categories Politics / Ruminations

Australia has a long history of mistreatment of our indigenous peoples. Occasional hopeful signs of progress are followed by periods of regression. We have to find a way forward.

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