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Tidwell Telford, 1839-1917: A Matriarch Across Two Centuries
Eliza Tidwell Telford lived through nearly eighty years of extraordinary change on the American frontier and across the wider Anglo world. Born in 1839 in the…
Letters from 1924: The Morning We Opened a Box of Old Postcards
Two and a half years ago, on a grey winter morning in our small kitchen, we sliced the tape on a cardboard box that had been tucked away in a cousin's garage…
The Fence Line That Divided the South Farm in Allen Hackworth's Poem
Among the quieter pieces on Allen Hackworth's personal site, the verse about the fence that cleaved the South Farm sits like a marker post at the edge of a…
Reading probate inventories to understand Tidwell family life
For many Australian family historians tracing American lines, probate records often feel like a final resort, the dry paperwork consulted only when the census…
The South Family Account Book from a 1870s General Store
A brittle, hand-stitched ledger sits among the archival papers on the Hackworth family website, its pages dense with faded ink and penciled figures. The book…
Tracing The Brighton Family’s Sailing Ships To America
The Brighton family’s movement across the Atlantic belongs to a wider story of migration, shipping, settlement, and changing records. A useful chronology must…
Loni's prose and the button from a Union great-uncle's uniform
The personal website of Allen and Loni Hackworth has long gathered more than poetry and photographs. It carries the small, tangible things that families pass…
Trading a Sydney Flat for a Thatched Cotswolds Cottage
For six summers in a row my partner and I had watched the cost of a fortnight in England climb well past what our budget could stretch to. A flat in…
Henry Telford McCarthy 1912 to 1999 A Life Remembered
Henry Telford McCarthy was born in the winter of 1912 in a small English town, the second child of Irish immigrant parents who had settled near the industrial…
When a Family Name Echoes Across the Generations
In every genealogist's bundle of papers there comes a moment when a familiar surname appears where it ought not to be — sitting twice in the same line, like a…