Tapestry series no. 56 Contributed by Helen Mellington Adeline Chaplin was born 17 November 1881 at Cooks Plains, near Mt Barker, South Australia . In 1836, her father, Joseph Chaplin, from Cornwall, England arrived and settled in the Mt Barker area. On 16 March 1876...
Tapestry series no. 52 Contributed by Penny Dowling My mother was brought up by very elderly parents and in many ways was very conservative but in other ways was a pioneer in women’s interests in Queensland’s South West during the 50s and 60s. Sheila...
Tapestry series no. 43 Contributed by Isobel Tait Jean Ingall Cooke (née Collard) was born in the Morpeth District of NSW in 1895. She was the third daughter and child in a family of nine siblings. Before WW1 the family moved by boat to Rous Mill outside Lismore in...
Tapestry series no. 42 Contributed by Ann Rushton Madge Edis Pickburn (née Morris) was born 14th January 1912 at Inverell, NSW. My mother was upper class. If my Gran, Mary Ann Morris (née White) was the daughter of Mrs JJ Whyte (née Carolyn Peacock) from Nunawadding,...
Tapestry series no. 40 Contributed by Len Beckett My mother was a member of a courageous generation of women who welcomed their husbands back from WW1, established their homes, bore their children, endured the Depression and then saw their sons off to WW2. In her...
