Winnie Edith Edwards

Tapestry series no. 64 Date contributed: 27.07.1999 Contributed by Olive E Edwards Winnie, the first grandchild of her grandparents, was born in Tasmania in 1911. She was the eldest of the family of twelve and was born at her home ‘Cloverlea’ where she...

Antonina Komarowski

Tapestry series no. 58 Date contributed: 22nd January 1999 Contributed by Dr Sonia Toft My Grandmother migrated to Australia with her husband and first child (my father) a couple of years after the events described below happened. She has lived with my Grandpa in...

Helena Richmond Meaney

Tapestry series no. 54 Date contributed: 10.09.1997 Contributed by Helena Irene Hall My memories of Grandma were of a tall, well built woman with grey hair walking with me to collect eggs from the barn, a disused dairy on the creek bank under the bridge. I remember...
Margaret Ruby Hughes

Margaret Ruby Hughes

Tapestry series no. 18 Contributed by Eleanor Hughes Ruby Hughes is the great grandmother of our children Kerrin, Nicola and Kimberley Hughes. I write this short tapestry of her life so that my children my one day recognise some significant threads in their own lives....

Jill Hunter

Tapestry series no. 16 Date contributed: 05.12.1996 Contributed by Jill Hunter I was born late October in 1947, on a farm at Shelbourne, Victoria, and my brother Norman was born on the farm 14 months later. Unfortunately, our mother passed away in April 1958 –...