Day: 13 September 2022
I’m a bit shocked to realise that it’s been six years since that I first posted a transcription of James Dyson’s conduct record as a convict in Van…
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- Flame out
- Shadowy Spouses
- Central Perth in cardboard
- Bio: Edward Hales Taylor
- I’m sure this is all completely normal
- The One that Got Away
- Four days with the VDL Establishment
- Bio: Samuel McKee
- Bio: Lt Pearson Foote (RN)
- Bio: David Williams
- Bio: Henry Nickolls
- A departure from Van Diemen’s Land
- Unreliable Witness
- Perth City Council Minutes 1858-1875
- Tales of the Moffatt
- Researching a Convict Ship
- Locating the United Service Tavern
- Rank Hypocrisy
- Are you … kidding me?
- Bio: Richard Edwards (jr)
- How 2020 ended…
- A little bit of war profiteering
- New Government House
- Reconstructing old Perth out of cardboard (so it lasts, this time)
- What has been left unsaid..
- Going to the Fairies…
- Grave Matters
- Won’t you think of the children?
- Boom time.
- Alias Hoffington
- Rename Canning Bridge
- Choose your own Adventure
- A Trial on Trial
- Pavement Archaeology
- Dyson’s hat
- A Tale of Three Cities
- On a Roll
- Dyson’s Corner (the Second)
- Our George Dyson
- Thomas Dyson: The Canny one
- The Fate of The First Wife, Part III
- The Fate of the First Wife, Part II
- The Fate of the First Wife, Part I
- On Cemetery Hill
- I demand the right to be labelled a bastard
- Recognise this face?
- Astley 3: The Gallant Ship Australia
- Astley 2: For Sail
- Astley 1: Orphans of a Perfect Storm
- When the apocalypse comes
- The Stranger In the Mirror
- An Anthemic Ancestor
- The Smoking Gun
- Happy Gunpowder Treason Day
- Dyson’s Hotel
- Dyson’s Corner (the First)
- Winterbottom’s End
- The Sons of Australia: Foundation and Foulkes
- Under the Establishment
- I hate Maitland Brown
- Francis Armstrong: Thesis
- Thurso
- Aberdeen
- Literally —ing the Patriarchy: Introducing Jane.
- Kill the Joke (AKA: “You had to be there”)
- Steam Powered Luddites
- Timber!
- The Little Boy Lost: Enter Drewy.
- Know your Guv’nor
- Secret Squirrel Business
- Rottnest Island #1: It’s a start
- Leetown to Auchterarder
- CSI Halifax
- Hello Sailor…
- “The Poste Restante”
- Going Postal: The great family rift.
- All the girls love a soldier
- In Old Hobart Town
- Dorothy Dyson Dances
- Joseph Dyson the Elder: The Respectable one
- Are you my Mummy?
- Stuffed
- Stones in Cumberland
- Twenty-one Children
- Too outrageous a coincidence?
- A Dark Deed in a Damp Land
- Van Diemen’s Land
- The Lancashire Hotpot
- An introduction to the Dysons
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