Gillies and Judd Family History
Ken Quennell was a ‘softgoods’ salesman who had travelled with his parents to England in 1933 on the ‘Esperence Bay’. After he returned to Australia, his engagement to Audrey Halliday was announced in October 1934. When they were married 2 years later at Brighton, the event made the social pages of ‘The Argus’. Palest,...
CHELTENHAM Market Gardeners and orchardists in the Moorabbin district are complaining bitterly of the depredations caused by the foxes rapidly multiplying in the shire, owing to the shelter afforded them by the ti-tree, particularly around the foreshore. Some three weeks ago Mr. R. L. Judd of Latrobe-street, Cheltenham, noticing that...
A Tale Of Kiwi Charity in 1873 We have a curiosity of tailoring at our office the equal of which we defy Mr Samuel Coombes, or any other city tailor, to produce. The article has done duty as trousers and the original material of which they were composed is distinguishable here...
Waiheke is a lovely island in the Hauraki Gulf, east of Auckland, New Zealand. My great, great, great grandparents John Fraser and Mary Kempt were the first non-Maori family to settle there. This occurred at Waikopou Bay in 1860. John and Mary were Scots who had sailed across the world from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia...
My father’s family hail from Maryborough, a lovely old country town about 170k north-west of Melbourne. The local rag, the ‘Maryborough & Dunolly Advertiser’ reported the following fundraiser during WW1 in 1915. The story features the skills, character and integrity of my 14 year old future grandmother, Jean Freeman. SCHOOL SPORTS – FINE DISTRICT DISPLAY One...
On the occasion of a ‘Band of Hope’ picnic at Mordialloc recently, Miss Mary Howard and Miss Inez Judd visited the local baths to bathe. Miss Judd, who could not swim, got out of her depth, and Miss Howard went to the rescue. Miss Judd struggled and clung to her...
A wedding in Cheltenham early in the 20th century certainly was a large and festive occasion. It also garnered an enormous number of the household items needed by newlyweds in the new century. When our Sarah Judd married Jesse Scott in Cheltenham in 1902, the local paper described the event as follows… In the...
After sending excerpts of his military record and the only other photo of him I know of (as a young boy), I received the following email from the AWM today with the pleasing news of their recognition of Alf Quennell in this photo. Dear Peter Thank you for sending the scan...
Trouble for another Albert Judd in 1909…. At the Cheltenham Court on Wednesday, before Messrs. Hugh Brown (chairman) and E. T. Penny, (J.P.), Phoebe Helene Judd charged her husband, Albert Somerville Judd, labourer of Mentone, with having left her on February 1 without means of support. When the case was...
On April 6, 1907, the following article appeared in the Brighton Southern Cross about a young cousin of mine: 10 year old Albert James Judd. MELON PATCH WATER MELONS £2/12/6 EACH AT HEATHERTON Market Gardeners in the vicinity of the metropolis state that they have given up the attempt to...
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