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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…
Hearthside Verses: A Winter Poem from the Brighton House
The Hackworth family website has long been a quiet corner of the internet, a place where original verse, family chronologies and the slow craft of genealogy…
A Tidwell Family Wedding Dress from the 1800s in the Family Archive
Tucked among the papers, photographs, and folded linens that Allen Hackworth keeps on the family website, one textile stands apart. A cream-coloured wedding…
Recording your own stories for family history
There's a particular kind of quiet that settles in when you sit down to record your own memories. You're not chatting with a grandchild over a cup of tea in…
Finding Obituaries in Small-Town Newspapers
Small-town newspapers can preserve the details that formal records leave out. A death certificate may give a date, place and cause of death, while a local…
Rain on the tin roof of the South Place: Allen's poem of memory
On the Hackworth family website, where Allen keeps his poetry and prose alongside the chronologies and obituaries that trace the Tidwell, South, Brighton,…
Home Exchange in the Netherlands: A Windmill Cottage in Kinderdijk
Three hours after boarding a KLM flight from Sydney, our family of four watched the North Sea coastline slide beneath us, still rubbing sleep from our eyes…
Mary Ann McCarthy Brighton, 1867–1954: a life remembered
Mary Ann McCarthy Brighton lived through one of the most transformative stretches of modern history, from the reconstruction era following the American Civil…