Showing posts with label Newspapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newspapers. Show all posts

Friday, October 20, 2023

Photos in the News

Over the years I have blogged on numerous occasions of the successes I have had searching in old newspapers for articles about my family.  I recently had another great find.

Locating a photo of an ancestor in the newspapers makes an article even more exciting.  I recently discovered that my great uncle, Alfred Edward Pummeroy, worked for a few years as a jockey, so 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.

Friday, September 8, 2023

New on Trove

Newspapers

NSW

  • Araluen Star and Miners' Right (1863-1864) [Queanbeyan Palerang Regional Council]
  • Braidwood and Araluen Express (1899-1907) [Queanbeyan Palerang Regional Council]
  • Daily Mirror (1941-1944) [National Library of Australia]
  • Pastoral Times and Deniliquin Telegraph (1859-1861) [Deniliquin Genealogy Society Inc]
  • Pastoral Times: incorporated with the Southern Courier (1861) [Deniliquin Genealogy Society Inc]
  • Pastoral Times and Southern Courier (1861-1862) [Deniliquin Genealogy Society Inc]
  • Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Echuca Chronicle (1862) [Deniliquin Genealogy Society Inc]
  • Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Moama Reporter (1863) [Deniliquin Genealogy Society Inc]
  • Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle (27 June 1863) [Deniliquin Genealogy Society Inc]
  • Queanbeyan Age (1955-1971) [Queanbeyan Palerang Regional Council]
  • South Sydney News (1940) [Bayside Council Library]
  • South Sydney Sentinel (1932-1935) [Bayside Council Library]
  • Wagga Wagga Express & Murrumbidgee District Advertiser (1875) [Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society]
  • Wagga Wagga Express (1875-1876)  [Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society]

QLD

  • Northern Planter Ingham (1907-1908) [Hinchinbrook Shire Library]

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

A Wedding in the News

During my binge on researching old newspapers, I recently came across a report on the wedding of my great aunt, Constance Green, to Cyril Webb in 1909.

The wedding was, but all accounts, quite a major local event in the small village where Constance's father was one of the major local landholders.

The amount of detail recorded in the local newspaper is astonishing.

There a complete list of the bridal party and a detailed description of the bride's and bridemaids' clothes.

Details of the service are included, even with the details of who had decorated the church for the occasion.

The article then goes on to cover the reception that followed the wedding at the bride's home, along with the details of the newlywed's departure for their honeymoon.

There is even a description of the bride's travelling clothes.

The festivities continued after the couple's departure with Constance's parents hosting about 60 people, including employees, the choir and church band along with family members, to a supper on the lawn behind their home.

Finally, there is the list of wedding presents.  Silver, dishes, photo frames, table cloths, the list goes on.  And on.  Every single gift the happy couple received is listed for all to see in the local paper, along with the name of the people who gave them.  Family, friends, neighbors.

Astonishing.  Now I just need to work out who all these people are and how many are related to the bride and groom.