Biographies

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There’ s no end to the surprises people find when they rummage through their collection of old photographs. Jane Hutton (nee Gillespie)...

We've launched an appeal to raise money to stabilise the grave where Jeanetta and George Menzies and several of their children are buried...

Charles Smith was the husband of Jane Smith (nee Sadler) and father of Jeanetta Sadler Smith (who married George Menzies in Sydney in...

If ever anyone deserved to be looked after by a grateful nation it was John Burgess Menzies. He had paid a great price in the cause of...

On the morning of 6 April 1905, the port of Newcastle, NSW was a very busy place. The BHP steelworks had not yet been built but the...

ALBERT HALEWOOD BREW (1913-1976) In 1929 Albert finished his schooling for he had passed the age of 15 when school attendance was no...

THE STORY OF ALEXANDER BARRON CARSON (1917 – 1992) Alexander Barron Carson, known as Barron, was born in Newcastle on 10 January 1917. ...

Maggie Grace Brew nee Menzies, was born on 18 April 1883, the youngest of 9 children born to George Menzies and Jeanette Sadler Menzies...

Jane Smith, Jeanetta's mother and George Menzies mother-in-law, is an enigma, a puzzle, in the Menzies family story. She is spoken of in...

Jeanetta Sadler Smith was born in Bathurst NSW on 9 August 1843. She was the daughter of Jane Smith and Charles Smith and was baptized...