![]() Memories of work done for the Red Cross during the last war are recalled by this wonderful old lady, who was then visiting Redcliffe. Her husband, who was away buying sheep, was forced to take refuge in a tree, where he stayed for a week, living on a pumpkin which happened to float by, and from which he scraped his daily rations. Thrupp told of how, when all fodder failed, wearing men's attire, she rode with them to cut prickly pear for the cows.ĭuring the 1890 flood she awoke to find the water in her room level with the bed, so a ladder was hastily put up, and a boat rowed into the room to transfer her to a safer place. She settled in the Surat district and has lived there ever since. Thrupp came to Australia at the age of six, and lived in Victoria until she came to Queensland 56 years ago. Thrupp drove the 300 miles from her home to Brisbane by car, and has just returned from a long holiday in Victoria, where she visited her old home at Sutton Grange, to which she went as a bride.īorn in the North of Ireland, Mrs. Thrupp of Broadmarsh, Surat, who is at present in Brisbane. STORIES of long ago, when experiencing the ravages of drought, and later of flood, on both of which occasions they lost everything they had, are told by 84-year-old Mrs. The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, Tuesday 12 September 1939 Memories of Drought, War, and Floods He was treated by a district doctor before being taken to hospital.ġ939 'ACCIDENTALLY SHOT', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. Hughes was jumping over a fence when the rifle was accidentally discharged. The police who investigated the accident, learned that Hughes and two companions went on a shooting excursion, one of the boys having an air-rifle, and the other a small-bore rifle. Ray Hughes, aged 13 years, of Foot street, Templestowe, is in the Children's Hospital as a result of a shooting accident yesterday afternoon. I highly recommend that you continue your own search there. New material is being added there from time to time. Trove is an excellent resource for your family history search.If the name of the suburb did not appear in the original newspaper announcement then I am unlikely to have found it.Where the scan of the newspaper is unclear it will be indicated thus:, , or – the latter being the best guess at what the word may have been.- indicates that the misspelling is what appeared in the original newspaper.Any notes that I have added to the text are shown thus:.Sometimes a later Wedding Anniversary notice appears when the original wedding was not announced in the press.Sometimes a later In Memoriam notices appears when there was no original death notice.If a marriage or death does not appear in the decade in which you know it should be try later decades.Note that names beginning with Mc were often shown in the early newspapers beginning with M’ - hence M’Kay, rather than McKay.Try a few alternatives before you give up. Names may have been misspelled in the newspaper or by the transcriber. The transcriptions on Trove are meant to be an exact rendition of the newspaper item.In addition to Family Notices listings (births, engagements, marriages, deaths, funerals, in memoriam notices) I have added items from news and social pages of the newspapers (reports of engagements, weddings, wedding anniversaries, divorces, sudden deaths, inquests, wills & estates).They include as many items as I could find by searching on the names of the suburbs Doncaster (and therefore Doncaster East), Templestowe, Donvale and Bulleen.Source: Trove a resource of the National Library of Australia.1998 'Financial boost for Yeshiva', The Australian Jewish News (Sydney, NSW : 1990 - 2008), 5 June, p. ![]()
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