G'DAy All,
Been a bloody good read so I suppose I had better come to the party.
On my fathers side we come from protestant Irish from the Armagh? area of Ireland so Dads line is the orange.
My mothers side is Irish Catholic, the green plus Aussie Aboriginal(My grandmother, mums mother was an elder of the Kamillaroi Nation)
So that makes me the biggest mix up you have ever seen me daddy he was orange & me mummy she was green (with a little bit of brown).
When I was young my mother explained it this way the brown was the earth that grew the green tree that yielded the orange fruit.
The Kamillaroi Nation was the largest indigenious nation in the world until the yanks claimed part of the Yukon area of Canada as part of the Sioux Nation.
I was born in the country town of Narrabri NSW but don't hold that against me
Anyway have a great life from Dave

Dear Dave,

What an interesting heritage you've got!

Thank you.

This is proving to be a most enjoyable thread.

G'day All,
Thanks Foxy this is proving to be a real interesting thread
All the best have a happy life From Dave

<< Dear Bronwyn, How about a few lines about your family background. Pretty please? >>

Well, dear Foxy, there's not much to tell I'm afraid. I only have a fairly vague understanding of my ancestry. Both of my parents' paternal family trees thread back to Ireland and all of my ancestors as far as I know are of Anglo-Celtic origin. The first descendants carrying my maiden name of Kennedy left Ireland for Australia at the time of the potato famine I think.

I remember looking through a huge old family album as a child which had photos going right back to the first descendants to arrive in Australia. I've recently made efforts to try and track that album down and have been given an address of a distant relative in Victoria who possibly has it. I must follow it up.

Your thread and the posters here who seem to know their family history so well have certainly inspired me to find out a little more. Thank you, Foxy, as always.

Hi Foxy, some stories are cool and probably more interesting than reading just dates and names in the genealogy of one’s tribe. It is as bad as my book reading, I forget details far too quickly.

I have read a transcript/story/real life thing written by an Uncle on Crete and the locals who helped him and his Aussie friend escape and hide. My mother wants me to rewrite it as it uses past and present tense and is a little confusing. I have been delaying about 7 years now. Something about rewriting it feels wrong – plus my grammar and English are hardly up to scratch.

Hey my Scots/Kiwi granddad as a hobby (while also fighting in WWII) got the Perspex from plane crashes and made jewelry out of it which I still have some of. My children’s grandfather – other side – was carried out of battle by his mates (English soldiers) who all got a VC while he got a metal plate in his head.

Now a family recipe book I would be really interested in. This is how I ended up with a computer in my kitchen, I wanted to be able to look up many recipes

Dear Dave,

Thanks for your good wishes - I've been very lucky
in life - thus far - I hope it continues.
I was diagnosed with cancer a few years back -
and so far so good. I'm due for a colonoscopy at
the end of October - which I'm not looking forward
to - but it needs to be done.

Dear Bronny,

Thanks for such a quick response dear heart.
Our parish priest in Sydney (and a very close family
friend) was Father Kennedy. I grew up with so many
stories about Ireland. There was such a strong
connection there - same sense of humour, and very
similar mythology. We also celebrated St Patrick's Day!

Dear Piper,

We'll have to start a thread at sometime just on
our favourite foods - and swap recipes. I'm always
collecting new ones. Especially all time favourites.
Everyone has at least one favourite.

You also should start writing down some of the stuff
you've been posting on this thread about your family
background for your family. I find it fascinating -
I'm sure they'd appreciate it as well - years from now.

I find if I don't write things down - they tend to be
forgotten.