In 2006, a small, unassuming diary, written between 1885 and 1886, made its way across…
The Australian colonies became a Commonwealth in 1901 with a key unifying factor being a…
Aboard the Ariadne bound for Queensland with her parents and siblings, fourteen-year-old Maria Steley kept…
When Miss Maria Rye advertised for a copywriter to work in her London law stationer’s…
A persistent concern for a number of researchers is the missing Queensland shipping lists of…
Finding an ancestor’s arrival in Australia can be challenging, but there is an increasing number…