Sunday, April 01, 2007

family history

this is margaret ann, my great great grandmother:
and her daughter, rosie:

both taken in bendigo in 1917. jt and grot are researching their sad story.
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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

creeeeeepppppppy.

11:16 pm
Gauri said...

what's their sad story ? your great great grandmother was a bit of a looker.

3:02 am
gumtreefid farmer said...

oy! don't make fun of my relatives! only people related to them can do that. . .

their sad story is not for the open internet, or i woulda posted it. stoopid.

thankyou for visiting!

10:13 am
Anonymous said...

i think their sad story IS for the internet really - it was splashed all over the argus, sun and other papers of the time, and dragged through court - gtg is a bit sensitive as shows her ancestors in a bad light, hence reflecting negatively on her

yes gauri, she was a looker who had many partners! - must have had something else going for her

jt doing 99.9% of research - grot just using all she finds

xxxgrot

4:36 pm
gumtreefid farmer said...

i'm happy to share it if you are. i thought you said not to?

it's a great story - i think our readers would be interested. discuss it with the other rellos and let me know.

4:40 pm
Anonymous said...

yes, hear hear!
give the readers what they want.

(if you thought I was making fun of them, please know that I wasn't, just expressing my horror in a typically childish fashion.)

4:53 pm
Anonymous said...

Sorry to have been absent from your blog for ages, but I keep having to fit work in between researching family scandals.
Loved the tassel pants. They are even better than the Salamanca Market ones!!
You can tell poor Margaret's story - discreetly. I guess 90 years is long enough to keep something of this magnitude secret!!!

7:15 pm
gumtreefid farmer said...

dear all,

okay, the maternal figures say it's okay, so will air family closet skeletons after wednesday, when i have some time.

you may hold your breaths. . .

gtg

11:13 am
gumtreefid farmer said...

jt,

i dunno. the salamanca pants still hold a special place in my heart. it's the fake fur *plus* the stars that does it for me.

but yes, tassels pretty special!

have fun with the research - keep me up to date! i demand a postcard from the melbourne library. i will try and tell the story discretely, but i can't leave out the sex and violence now, can i?

love

5:07 pm

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