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Timber Creek NT Flood, 27 December 2022
Fiona McDonald (nee Stone) and her family experienced the worst possible Christmas present at their Hotel-Motel at Timber Creek when the town and surrounding communities were inundated with floodwater in a “one-in-50-year” event when ex-Tropical Cyclone Ellie dumped almost 250 … Continue reading
Family Tree Update
I have updated the family information which is generated for the Internet by my Legacy 9.0 software and it is now spread over ten generations from Thomas and Ann who arrived in Hobart in October 1819 to young Zaidyn who … Continue reading
MyHeritage “LiveStory”
LiveStory is a new feature from MyHeritage that allows you to create animated videos of your ancestors telling their life story, using just a still photo and some text. As I have recently been doing some research into the life … Continue reading
Matilda Susannah Stone
Matilda was the youngest of the ten children of Thomas and Ann Stone and was the only one to be born in Green Ponds, probably on 31 December 1838. After their mother died in 1856 Matilda and Lucy continued to … Continue reading
Peter Anthony Stone (1947-2021)
Pete Stone passed away on the 26 June 2021 after increasingly failing in health since Christmas. All his family were able to be with him at the end which probably wouldn’t have been the case a few months ago because … Continue reading
Military Involvement Since WW2
The Australian War Memorial lists the following engagements which have involved Australian military personal since the Second World War: Occupation of Japan,1946-51 Korean War, 1950-53 Malayan Emergency, 1950-60 Indonesian Confrontation, 1963-66 Vietnam War, 1962-75 Iraq: the First Gulf War, 1990-91 … Continue reading
Graeme Leslie Stone (1951-2020)
An “Unsung Hero” in the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame. Graeme Leslie Stone passed away in Shepparton, Victoria on 9 February 2020 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born in Mooroopna, Victoria on 26 March 1951, the second … Continue reading
Kenneth Graham McIntyre MSc, PhD
Kenneth Graham McIntyre, born 6 October 1940, was the son of Oliver William Keith McIntyre and Ina Margaret nee Stone, the great-granddaughter of Thomas and Ann Stone. He died in Newcastle NSW on 16 March 2005. The following Obituary was … Continue reading
Joan Grace Keddell
Joan was born in Pahiatua, New Zealand on 1 December 1910, the second daughter of Walter Theodore Keddell and his wife Agnes Millicent (nee Cotton and a great-grandaughter of Thomas and Ann Stone). After attending the Pahiatua District High School … Continue reading