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Borclaud Blog - List of Posts

This page shows links to blog posts first published on my Wordpress site but now mirrored on this website. My blog is a place for family history and other ramblings.

Posts are listed in date order with the newest at the top.


Dot point  51. Two Naval Dogs of the 1930s (first published 8 February 2025)


Dot point  50. Mrs Twyford's Bull - A Cootamundra Story (first published 9 December 2024)


Dot point  49. Curran and Herrmann Family Stories (first published 5 October 2024)


Dot point  48. The Hypothetical Captain John Cudmore, Surgeon & Soldier (first published 5 October 2024)


Dot point  47. Australian Amateur Rocketry Pioneers – Douglas Flecknoe and Alexander (Alec) Errington (first published 30 November 2023)


Dot point  46. A Birthday Surprise! (first published 23 November 2023)


Dot point  45. "Rob's Shed" 21st Birthday! (first published 26 May 2023)


Dot point  44. The Strange Case of Richard Camden – or is that Richard Cribb? (first published 1 February 2023)


Dot point  43. A Place Called “Crowie” (first published 21 January 2023)


Dot point  42. Battleship Guns in Sydney Harbour (first published 11 December 2022)


Dot point  41. A Deridgeree Scrapbook (first published 4 December 2022)


Dot point  40. A Chinese Grocery Store on Campbell Street (first published 8 November 2022)


Dot point  39. George William Cain and the McMaster Family (first published 18 March 2022)


Dot point  38. Henry and Helena Curran’s Business Affairs (first published 28 February 2022)


Dot point  37. Richard Fitzgerald’s Bathurst Convict Establishment in 1828 (Part 2) (first published 29 January 2022)


Dot point  36. Richard Fitzgerald’s Bathurst Convict Establishment in 1828 (Part 1) (first published 18 January 2022)


Dot point  35. A Colonial Rarity – John Snow (first published 5 January 2022)


Dot point  34. Alias “Reedy Creek” (first published 29 December 2021)


Dot point  33. John Jones junior of “Turee” – A Family Mystery – You be the Judge (first published 27 November 2021)


Dot point  32. The Scotsman’s Gramophone (first published 17 May 2021)


Dot point  31. The Iron Cove/Five Dock Heavy Anti-aircraft Gun Battery (first published 17 May 2021)


Dot point  30. Anthony West – A Story of Old Cassilis (first published 14 November 2020)


Dot point  29. Deridgeree Station – the John Nevell Years (first published 13 November 2020)


Dot point  28. Deridgeree Station – the Early Years (first published 13 November 2020)


Dot point  27. The Bushranger’s Pistols – A Blackman Family Story (first published 21 September 2020)


Dot point  26. James Nolan, Forgotten Bush Astronomer (first published 13 September 2020)


Dot point  25. Remembering Driver Alexander John Cameron, 7th Field Company Engineers (first published 24 April 2020)


Dot point  24. Steam Train to Austinmer (first published 25 January 2020)


Dot point  23. “Captain” Blackman’s Not So Good Year of 1861 (first published 5 June 2019)


Dot point  22. The Launts, the Snows and the Dillons (first published 26 November 2018)


Dot point  21. “Beyond the Black Stump” – Joseph Launt at Coolah (first published 18 October 2018)


Dot point  20. Burying Napoleon – A Family Story (first published 12 March 2018)


Dot point  19. Spectacle Island – What’s In A Name? (first published 8 September 2017)


Dot point  18. Our Curran Family – Newspaper Obituaries (first published 27 June 2017)


Dot point  17. Our Herrmann Family – Newspaper Obituaries (first published 27 June 2017)


Dot point  16. Henry Curran’s Flour Mill in Orange (first published 15 June 2017)


Dot point  15. Henry Curran – Gold Rush Storekeeper (first published 13 June 2017)


Dot point  14. Recusancy in The Muttlebury Family (first published 21 June 2016)


Dot point  13. The Muttlebury Family of Jordans, Ashill, Somerset, England (first published 21 June 2016)


Dot point  12. Bushranger Myth Making (first published 19 December 2015)


Dot point  11. Leaving Ardnamurchan – An Emigrant Family’s Voyage (first published 13 December 2015)


Dot point  10. Looking for Ellen O’Brien (first published 12 December 2015)


Dot point  9. Lying Ancestors (first published 12 December 2015)


Dot point  8. The Clearance of Swordlechorach – a Family Account (first published 10 December 2015)


Dot point  7. Tom Dillon, Bushranger (first published 1 December 2015)


Dot point  6. Alexander Henderson – of the Glengarry Regiment? (first published 30 November 2015)


Dot point  5. Ardnamurchan, Anne McColl and the Archaeologists (first published 29 November 2015)


Dot point  4. Origins of the Old Bush Song “Goorianawa” (first published 28 November 2015)


Dot point  3. An Early Family Photograph (first published 7 November 2015)


Dot point  2. Mary Cameron Faces the Knife! (first published 6 November 2015)


Dot point  1. Two Thomas Dillons and The Old Bush Song “Goorianawa” (first published 5 November 2015)


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