You guessed it, I’m still waiting for the missing link. New DNA matches come and go, but none of any significance in the hunt for my Mystery Great Grandfather, dear old MG. Not yet. In the meantime I haven’t been resting on my Christmas derriere, no no no, I’ve been working quite hard – in…
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Trait vs Fate – Edna, part 12
I’m waiting for something. Or someone. Someone to open up the Willock world and reveal their family stories to me. Or someone to tie the Willocks to the Collmans with certainty, but the something or someone doesn’t seem to be coming. I’m willing to wait – what else can I do? Today I heard from…
The Collmans – Edna, part 11
My DNA is linking me to the Collmans. Some of the connections are strong enough that I think I’m on the trail of Edna’s father, Mystery Great Grandaddy – dear old MG. All roads are leading to Thomas William Collman and Augusta Weston. Who were they? Thomas Collman was born in 1858 near the town…
The hot spot – Edna, part 10
I’ve worked really hard on this and I’m not going to bore you with the details. I’m cutting right to the chase. Since my last post I’ve worked out a few things. I know exactly who E is, but I definitely don’t know her, she’s a stranger to me. I’ve also worked out how the…
Who are you? – Edna, part 9
This is going to be hard. Finding Miriam was tricky but I don’t even know where to start to find him. Mystery great grandfather, name unknown, every detail unknown. Who are you? All I know is the obvious – he was a man who was in the same place as Miriam about nine months before…
The Mother Lode – Edna, part 8
Ok, so Mabel Willock isn’t Edna’s mother. Does that mean Mabel’s sister Miriam has to be Edna’s mother, that Miriam must be May Willock? Well… Maybe… What do I know about Miriam Willock? She was born in Molong New South Wales in 1884, just down the road from Wellington, which is where May Willock said…
The Dorneys of Waterloo – Edna, part 3
Before I knew that Edna’s surname was Willock, I was looking for Dorneys in Waterloo or Redfern. There was only one Dorney family living there in 1910. They were William, his wife Lucy, and their four children; Florence Ada, William Vincent, John Francis and Eugene Frederick. Two other Dorney children, Lucy and ‘Bertie’, had not…
The awakening – Edna, part 1
This is my paternal grandmother, Edna. The baby that she is clutching is my father, Jack. By the time Jack was 8 years old he was a resident at the St Joseph’s Home for Boys, an orphanage at Kincumber on the central coast of New South Wales. The unfortunate consequence of Jack being raised by…
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