I thought Kate & Dinnie’s story, Love in the Time of Typhoid, was a bit too sad, so here is William Gray (1833-1922), known as Dobbin, playing his squeeze box, which I researched and found …
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Love in the Time of Typhoid
My own dear Dinnie, can my loss by told? I miss you more as the days grow old And I know that my years, be they many or few Will be years of longing and …
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Jack Edmonds (1912-1990)
To commemorate the life of Grandad Jack Edmonds, who died March 6th, 1990, this slideshow celebrates his life in pictures.
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Father Christmas
According to family lore, William GRAY (1833-1922), known as “Dobbin” Gray, was the first Father Christmas for John Martin’s department store’s famous Christmas Magic Cave. William Dobbin GRAY was born in 1833 in the village …
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Today in 1855: Ludwig KRAMER said…
“He wanted to see all nationalities cease; that there should be no Englishmen, Scotchmen, Irishmen, nor Germans, but all South Australians (Applause)” Adelaide Observer What an enlightened attitude for the time 🙂 In 1855 a new …
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My Grandfather’s Diaries
The sixty notebooks that comprise Grandad Jack’s diaries from 1928 to 1990 were donated to the State Library of South Australia by his second son, my uncle, in 2015, twenty-five years after Grandad Jack died of …