Short Stories of the Blackmores, Suttors, Kinlesides, Watsons, Farrs, Gordons, Blacks and others.
Carol Liston, Greg Blackmore and Fiona McGuire From "History" the Magazine of The Royal Australian Historical Society, Issue June 2026 Number 168 Page 21 Located in the centre of the city, 133 Macquarie Street (now History House) is opposite the Royal Botanic Gardens, close to Circular Quay, Parliament House and Government House. Built by member … Continue reading Evidence from a Sewing Cupboard
By Fiona McGuire Recently I decided to have a dig through my mothers "sewing cupboard" in our family house of over 50 years. I found this beautiful petticoat, neatly folded in a bag. I asked some people who knew far more about these thing than I and they thought is was from 1905-1915 based on … Continue reading A Petticoat
Lew Blackmore used to talk about Rob Roy MacGregor and it appears there is a direct connection via the Watsons. Lew's great grandfather Sydney Grandison Watson's sister, Alexandrina ‘Alexina’ married Major Robert Guthrie MacGregor, a great great grandson of Rob Roy MacGregor. Robert's father was Major General James Murray MacGregor and one of his sons … Continue reading Rob Roy MacGregor & the Watson Connection
Lew and Louie Blackmore lived at the property “Rosedale” near Charbon cement works, and not far from Kandos in NSW, in the first years of their married life, between 1945 and 1952. During that time a goods train ran into a truck carrying cement on a level crossing on, what is now known as Cooper … Continue reading Charbon Level Crossing Train Crash
Cootharaba airstrip looking south east towards Lake Cootharaba, Noosa Heads and Cooroy Mountain. In October 1968, Lew and Louie Blackmore purchased “Cootharaba” at Kin Kin from the Galloway family. John and Margaret Galloway had held "Cootharaba" since 1901 and founded the Cootharaba Hereford Stud in 1926. Their son Allen attended some 68 Brisbane Shows with … Continue reading Cootharaba – Yalanga Station, Kin Kin.
From the Journal of Greg Blackmore, Mawson Patrol, Course FP27 On Sunday the 29th of December 1963, I arrived at the Brooklyn Wharf on the Hawkesbury River in NSW. I then travelled by Ferry the 6 miles upstream to Fisherman's Point, the base for Outward Bound in Australia. A couple of months previously, I had … Continue reading Outward Bound, Fishermans Point.
Eldest son of Edwin Gordon Blackmore and Eleanora Elizabeth (Farr) Blackmore. Gordon was born on December 23, 1872. He was baptised at St Peter's College Chapel in Adelaide, South Australia on January 19, 1873. Parents are listed as Edwin Gordon Blackmore and Eleanora Elizabeth Blackmore on baptism listing. Brother of George Edward Blackmore, James Gairdner Blackmore, Edwin Ord Blackmore, Jane (Blackmore) Sharp, Eleanora Mary Blackmore, Lewis Gordon … Continue reading Gordon Patteson Blackmore
A great grand daughter of Edwin Gordon Blackmore and Eleanora Elizabeth (nee Farr), Ann Heath’s’ grandfather was Gordon Patteson Blackmore who married Ethel Mona Finlayson and their daughter, Eleanora Mona “Ray” Blackmore married Frederick John “Jock” Heath. Ann has three brothers, George Ross Heath (1939- ),William “Bill” John (1937- ) and Denis Patteson (1943- ) … Continue reading Ann Coleridge Heath
A great grandson of Edwin Gordon Blackmore and Eleanora Elizabeth (nee Farr), George Ross Heath's' grandfather was Gordon Patteson Blackmore who married Ethel Mona Finlayson and their daughter, Eleanora Mona "Ray" Blackmore married Frederick John "Jock" Heath. Ross has two brothers, William "Bill" John (1937- ) and Denis Patteson (1943- ) and one sister Anne … Continue reading Dr Ross Heath
Maureen Anne Powter was born on the 29th December 1956, along with her twin brother Patrick Raymon Powter. Maureen and her twin brother Patrick in 1978 with Maureen's son Peter at her wedding to Greg Blackmore in Rockhampton. On the 18th January 1957 the birth of the twins Maureen Anne and Patrick Raymon, at Girraween Hospital, … Continue reading Maureen Blackmore (nee Beaumont/Powter)
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