Worked out my problem getting pics off of the iPad. The cord. Needed a new one lucky I have a spare.

Wrote my piece for Write Your Family Saga. Expanded on the poaching theme. The others turned out too long and hard to get word count down. I still went over the 250 word quota though.

My Aunty gave me this teapot that belonged to my Great Grandma Euphemia. A souvenir from the coronation in June 1902 of King Edward VII and his wife Queen Alexandra. My grandmother Jessie was born that year so it is very special just for that reason.  Coincidentally my nanna Aileen also was born that year but a couple of months after.

The spout is a little broken but still a lovely bit of china.


Another of my treasures.

 Its a Sands game. Housie Lotto now called Bingo. Belonged to Nanna.

 The little marker pieces are in an old tobacco tin. The original box is a bit dilapidated and you can see where I used masking tape to hold it together.

This is Mater the cat. has a habit of getting in the way. Walks across the keyboard when I am trying to type, lies on the iPad, sits in front of the computer screen and takes over my chair if I get up to do something else. She is watching me. 

Have been procrastinating today and other days got a lot of stuff to scan onto the computer but have not been in the mood. Everything is in piles waiting for me to get my act together. There are letters, photos and other papers. Associated with about four different families much not in any order.

Today is the start of two new units in the Diploma of Family History at UTAS: Place, Image, Object and Writing Your Family Saga.  Started last night but I was too bleary eyed to take in what I read. Tried this morning too cold to get up so read on the iPad in bed. Trouble is links didn't work. So will have to attempt again on the trusty work horse.

Place, Image, Object
Seems interesting enough, don't have much in my possession of heirlooms, photos etc .Most of my stuff is computer images I have scanned or been sent. Scant supply of physical items. I have always been the last person to be considered for an heirloom or a hand me down of anything. So my treasures are my digitized collections.

I like the idea of doing a map. In my mind I can place all my families by maps. Maps of migration, maps of relation to other families (especially the Young, Rose and Marshall mobs all inter related)., geography maps, how families are dispersed. maps are so useful. Through knowing a location you learn the history, significant events and so much more. Combine a map with images and there is a powerful tool to describe a family and its origins. Yes I will like this bit of the Unit the most.

Writing Your Family Saga
A lot of writing assignments here. I spose so. Hence name of unit. Six 250 word e-activities, one a week plus a response to someone else's effort. assignment 2 a 750 word expansion on a chosen e-activity. Assignment 3 1000 word narrative on a moment in your family saga. I hope a moment is at least a period of time say 10 years. Well we'll see

E- activity for this week is write on ONE of these: What’s Your Flavour?, History Repeating, Strangers in the Night, Chance Encounter, Family Feud, The Ties That Bind. First three as non-fiction or last three as fiction.

I am tossing up on
1. What's your flavour? - Dad and his Great grandfather both had a flare for poaching but not much fact on gg though apart from he may have poached rabbits. Also fiction would suit this better for me as facts are limited. Here are my thoughts -
 

Dad poached marron from Serpentine Dam Catchment in the Perth Hills. Midnight jaunts family waiting in car while dad and mates went off with chook pellets and wire netted scoops to catch the delicacy. Return to sitting around campfire with a large copper boiling away. Discussion on best way to cook. Throw them in and they scream, caress between eyes to hypnotise and then cook. Dodging the fishing inspectors and rangers.

Lewis Wiseman poached rabbits – how? by traps? Have a gun? Was caught

2. Chance Encounter - At least four family lines ended up in the Bendigo area around the same time, but main events don't coincide.

Rose family were masons and quarryman living and working Malmsbury came from Methven, Scotland
Wisemans farmed near Kyneton came from Elgin, Scotland

Ellen Ann Ovens born in a tent at the base of Hanging Rock near Kyneton. Family farmed near Carlsruhe came from Gloucestershire, England

James Molloy stationed at Sandringham (Bendigo) was in the Militia; married first two children born in area 
3. History Repeating may be a better option. Something I have in common with one or more relative is illegitimacy. Conceiving a child at least out of wedlock. Seems to be a theme. A more common occurrence than realised. The twentieth century view on this seemed rather prudish considering that it was a fact of life. Twenty first view is anything goes. 

Margaret Wiseman had a baby on board immigration ship before arriving Port Phillip. He died after arrival. Problem here was Lewis arrived in 1852 his wife didn't arrive until 1854. Who's baby?

Lottie denied having an illegitimate son, blamed her older sister. Judged her daughter-in-law for being in similar situation.
 

Nanna and grandad married just before birth of first child Colin

Cousin points to picture of parents wedding. I was at my mum’s wedding (pointing to mother)
 
My first child Benjamin John Wiseman born and died before deciding to marry his father
Took some pictures with I pad and now I do not know how to get them onto the desktop. Plugged into USB but is not showing up so I can access the pictures. Don't know what is going on.

Will get back to this when I have sorted it out.

Cheers

Hi

I am going to attempt at doing blogging. Never done this before. Thought about it. Only took five years to get this far. So here I am. What will my blogging be about? Mainly my family history but with a spattering of other things. If all goes well I can have a blog for each family I research.

But for now it will be just this attempt.

Over the last 6 weeks or so I did a unit with the University of Tasmania (UTAS), Convict Ancestors. This was through the Diploma of Family History. I enjoyed the challenge. The final assignment was centred around a convict of choice. So I adopted a convict.

In 1852 my Great-great Grandfather James Molloy was a convict guard on the same voyage. He was returning to the colonies as an immigrant with his wife and two daughters. He had previously been with the Kings Own 4th Foot Regiment in the colony of New South Wales and Norfolk Island from 1831 - 1837. After discharge from the Regiment in 1851 he returns to Australia, being a guard on a convict ship payed for the trip.

I looked at all the names of convicts that were on the Fairlie in 1852. The name SHEEPWASH jumped out at me Not only an unusual name but also a name I had seen mentioned in a family tree relating to the wife of James Molloy. Coincidence. Probably. Good place to start though.

All I had was a name, Samuel Sheepwash, the ship and year that he came out. From this we had to research find out as much as we could about the chosen person, especially his convict life. One thing that made it easy finding out convict records is that the person is known by his name, ship and the year of arrival in colony.

From all the information we garnered a story of 750 - 1000 words was to be written and published on Our Family Past (OFP). Also to be included were two break out stories and references which we will be assessed on. You could write up to ten break out stories but only assessed on two.

What is a break out story? This is just little side wanderings going off topic to explain something. My two topics were about the ship Fairlie and what I had found out about Samuel's life not pertaining to convictions. Like birth, whereabouts and his parents. Sadly I found nothing about marriage or when or where he died. Perhaps one day I will.

We will know officially our results by 6 July, unofficially before then I hope. After I have my results I will post what I wrote to this blog.

I hope some relative of Samuel will see my story and I can share what I have learnt with them.

What did I learn on this trip of discovery with Samuel. There are a lot of places you can search. LINC which is the Tasmanian archive repository has a considerable library of records to view and much is on line. Through researching Samuel I found out about a record pertaining to convict guards which has been instrumental in learning more about James Molloy. The Old Bailey in UK has online resources that are free to search, though Samuel did not feature there.

Due to finances I stuck to what was freely available on line. Ancestry.com and Find My Past are paid services but as a Latter-Day Saints I have a church subscription. although ancestry was available free through UTAS while doing the course. Genealogy forums were also quite helpful in locating records or understanding why.

Referencing was a challenge. I had never heard of the Chicago style before attempting this unit. A whole new way of referencing that confused me at times. There is a need to know where you got your information from Not just so you do not repeat yourself but also someone else could take over and know what you had been doing and why you chose one record over another. I endeavour to be more diligent in citing where my sources are found.

I learnt that in just a few years we have become spoilt in producing a text document. The internet is a great tool to gain information to enhance the subject of our text. Most text editors have many bells and whistles to make our documents appealing to the reader. Our Family Past had a most basic text editor. This was very tedious and time consuming. The idea of OFP is great. My thought bubbles follow the lay out of OFP. a main story that has tangents and meanderings.

Well that is enough for now.

Evelyn

 

My interpretation of what Samuel may have looked like.

He had a small head, medium forehead, chin. mouth and nose.

His hair and eye brows brown, grey eyes, fresh complexion and no whiskers.

He was 13 years when sentenced to transportation and 16 years when the fateful day arrived.