I'm just about dropping on my feet, after spending hours and hours every day researching ancestors. Compare this to the houses I put a few blogs back! I couldn't have been more wrong!
Ralph Dodds, the great grandfather I mentioned then is descended from the Mounsey family, who owned this estate, Patterdale Hall. It doesn't look as though they were too poor, does it!
Some of the original occupiers immigrated to NSW and took up land grants here, establishing farming properties, with convicts for servants. Some of them are buried in towns - Singleton and Murrurundi - where I haved lived, totally unaware of my ancestral ghosts wafting about there! My next project is a trip to the cemeteries to take some photos.
Ralph Dodds, the great grandfather I mentioned then is descended from the Mounsey family, who owned this estate, Patterdale Hall. It doesn't look as though they were too poor, does it!
Some of the original occupiers immigrated to NSW and took up land grants here, establishing farming properties, with convicts for servants. Some of them are buried in towns - Singleton and Murrurundi - where I haved lived, totally unaware of my ancestral ghosts wafting about there! My next project is a trip to the cemeteries to take some photos.
1 comment:
Patterdale is beautiful - I haven't heard of Patterdale Hall but presume it is in the Dale and not just the name of a lovely private home. To think of the great difficulties travelling in years gone by it did not stop our ancestors from dying many miles from where they were born. I can't think we too would go too far even with the help of jet transport. Thought we have met - I travelled about 20 miles whilst you travelled many thousand. xx
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