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Did you know that Tom Aubrey was shipwrecked as on his first voyage at age 14. It was on the Glasgow Barque Fifeshire only 19 days out...

Did you know that bringing ships into and out of the Port of Newcastle was extremely hazardous in the days of sail? As shipping masters...

DID YOU KNOW ? …that Jeanetta Sadler Smith made three journeys between Sydney and Bathurst before she was married? The first was as an...

DID YOU KNOW THAT Seamen call ships ‘she’? Some say it’s because ships wear a coat of paint and swing around a buoy. Others say that...

DID YOU KNOW THAT the 4 Menzies sisters, Annie, Jessie, ‘Netta and Maggie each married men remarkably like ‘the man who married dear old...

Did you know that the Grim Reaper was never far away 100 years ago. Death was an all too common feature of life in the Menzies family....

Did you know that the eldest daughter of George and Jeanetta Menzies, Annie Isabella Menzies, married Ernest Woodley Warner in 1885 and...

Did you know that the 7 children of George and Jeanetta Menzies who survived to adulthood saw 24 members of the family join the...

Did you know that “Woodley Cottage” in Maitland Street, Stockton, the celebrated home where our (great, great-great) grandparents were...

Did you know that Jeanetta and George Menzies had 2 daughters followed by 5 sons and then two more daughters. Their second son and...