Borenore Caves

My interaction with Borenore goes back a long. way. My Mother lived there for a while before she was 10. When we came back to Australia for a short while in 1964 or 1965, we stayed for a while at the neighbours place in Borenore. Since then we visited occasionally, and it is one of the places that is part of my soul. I do not remember it, but my mother thinks we went to the caves as children. She had been there, but at the time it was private property. The caves are now opened to the public. I did not have my torch, but was still able to wander through the lime stone karst.

finding my great grand mother

Annie Marjoram has been a great mystery in the family. My grandmother did not even know she had been nicked from her real mother until at about aged 60 she went to get her birth certificate. It turned out that she did not exist! After some questions were asked, the lies were revealed and she discovered who her real mother had been. She also discovered she had a brother.

I have been searching for some time for information on Annie. The family had her located in Rookwood. But when I visited the cemetery several years ago, with my mother and sister, we could not find her there.

Recently I found her suggested second marriage. This lead me to her death certificate, and with one in tow, I headed off to Rookwood. This time to look in the cremations and in the correct year. So it was with ease that I was able to find her.

"Annie Marjoram 1896-1961 in her early twenties" by yewenyi [?]


"Rookwood" by yewenyi [?]

Who do you think you are?

Last night on SBS was a TV show about AFL announcer Dennis Cometti. He and I share a great great great grand-mother - the convict Hannah Stanley. She is our direct line maternal grandmother. So all of my relatives, descended from Lorna Marks, are also cousins of Dennis.

We went down to Sutton Forest for a family reunion last year, as reorganized by SBS TV. Hannah is burried in the cemetery there. It was quite an interesting affair and I got to meet many people who I had previously only encountered online, while doing the family tree. I took lots of photos. A flash was not allowed as it mucks up the light sensors on the video equipment. Also I signed a non-disclosure agreement and promised not to tell people or publish my photos until after the show had aired. I have now put the photos on flickr.

Finally a plug for the people at SBS. I was very impressed by their organization skills and professionalism for the small part of the shows production that I was involved with. I was a bit concerned when I saw the TV shows that were produced in England with their general approach to the topics, but I think that the Australian version is a significant improvement on the originals and look forward to seeing the rest of the shows.

"Family Gathering" by yewenyi [?]

"Family Gathering" by yewenyi [?]

"Family Gathering" by yewenyi [?]

"Family Gathering" by yewenyi [?]

Family History

A little note on the family tree. I have not worked on it for some time. My plan is to work on it again. But I am waiting until the Leopard version of the Mac operating system comes out. The reason, I used a PC program and I gave my last PC to my mother last weekend. I have not used it for some time. I have installed Microsoft Windows on my mac, but I have to reboot to use it. Unfortunately all my mail is under mac osx. I plan to run some virtualisation software, but do not want to buy it until the new version of the OS comes out so that I do not have to then purchase an upgrade. The new version is due out "soon". So my plan to restart in February has been delayed. Also, I have only just caught up on all the photos taken while in china. I have not uploaded them all, but I have finished processing them.