As today in Australia we celebrate the running of the Melbourne Cup, it seems fitting that my Trove Tuesday post focuses, in some way, on horses, jockeys and racing.
Locating a photo of an ancestor in the newspapers makes any article
even more exciting. After I discovered that my great uncle, Alfred
Edward Pummeroy, worked for a few years as a jockey, I headed to the
newspapers to see if he was mentioned in racing news.
To my
delight, not only did I find several articles about his short (and not
terribly successful) racing career, but I also found a photograph of him
with a couple of other jockeys.
Alfred
is pictured in the centre of the three standing jockeys, and it is the
only image I have of him as a young man, which makes this photo from the
newspapers even more special.
Another Trove Treasure!
