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Catherine Thompson
Properties of George Evans late of James Street, Fortitude Valley
July 13, 2026
George Evans of Brisbane, a Pioneer Ancestor
June 15, 2026
Some Pioneers of Brisbane, New South Wales
May 18, 2026
‘Remarkable’ Brisbane 1895: ‘a city of hotels’
May 4, 2026
Tell me a story of the olden days
March 2, 2026
Betty’s Story
February 16, 2026
Bridget Connor: My Irish Orphan 2nd Great-Grandmother
February 1, 2026
Mary Ann’s Cottage
October 26, 2025
My Mum, the Nurse
October 19, 2025
Missionary Encounters at Moreton Bay
August 10, 2025
The Fever Ship Minerva
June 2, 2025
The Cambus Wallace: tragedy and souvenirs from the sea
May 19, 2025
Arrivals in Moreton Bay 1849-1850: a population boost with a difference
February 24, 2025
A Death by Drowning, an Inquest and the Brisbane Flood of 1890
February 17, 2025
My connection to ‘The Valley’ from the late 1850s
October 21, 2024
A letter home: Tracing my Thompson family
September 16, 2024
Housing for People of Small Means: Worker’s Dwelling Act 1909
May 27, 2024
Elizabeth Readford, lost to history
April 15, 2024
Dara, the Archbishop’s Palace and a wedding
April 8, 2024
Arrival of the Artemisia: an “important event in the annals of Moreton Bay – an epoch to be often reverted to”
February 26, 2024
My grandmother Eileen Evans and the photo in a locket
December 4, 2023
Louise Christina Schattling
October 23, 2023
Recollections of an old hand in Colonial Queensland
September 25, 2023
My Grandma Irvine: Lills Life and her autograph book
September 4, 2023
A journey of Faith for Dorothea
July 17, 2023
Telling our own stories
November 21, 2022
Out in the weather
July 18, 2022
Hugh Irvine: bootmaker and storekeeper extraordinaire
June 20, 2022
Family links to land
May 23, 2022
Love Letters to Maggie
March 28, 2022
Trying to decipher Jean McGill’s role during World War Two
March 21, 2022
Revelations from the Register
January 31, 2022
The postmaster, the bolter and the draper
November 1, 2021
Andrew Gilmore Irvine: A bootmaker from Killyleagh
August 23, 2021
Great Aunt Lulie Ubania Medosa Bell
June 28, 2021
Francis Irvine – Immigrant, Bootmaker, Shopkeeper & Baptist elder
March 22, 2021
The Sad, Short Life of Harriet Jones
January 25, 2021
Walter’s happy memories
November 8, 2020
Tragedy at Fortitude Valley store
June 22, 2020
The Kate and her companions who brought immigrants into Brisbane
May 4, 2020
Buried Treasures
May 23, 2016