TROVE TUESDAY 13 NOV 2018 - RANDOM DATE - TO ADD TO YOUR STORY from TROVE

EXPLORE RANDOM DATES

Have you ever chosen a date at random and wandered through TROVE investigating what happened on that day, or in that era?

 It can lead to a whole new outlook on your research. It's one thing to collect dates and maybe, if you're lucky, some family stories... but what was happening outside your area, maybe in the same town, state, country. Knowing more can give you a far greater perspective on how people lived at the time. 

 I chose 9th July, 1930... not really at random, as this was the date of my 

mother's birth in Coffs Harbour, NSW.

So, what was happening on 9 July 1930, after the birth of that special baby...

Geraldton Guardian and Express (WA : 1929 - 1947), Wednesday 9 July 1930, page 1

National Library of Australia  http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67177381
Please click to enlarge...

Kingsford Smith was in the news..

The Armidale Express and New England Advertiser (NSW) Wed 9 Jul 1930

Radio-phone service amazed many..

There were dole queues in Coffs Harbour..

Courtesy of NSW State Library

Garden Theatre, Cnr. Queen and Pound Streets, Grafton.

Clarence River Historical Society

Daily Examiner Grafton 9 Jul 1930

The Talkies program                                         

Veteran Decoy

Daily Standard Brisbane 

latest fashion

                           
Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania
Seven Mistakes of Life

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser (NSW : 1904 - 1932), Wednesday 9 July 1930, page   National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article233790803

There was concern about technology affecting rainfall..

                           

NEWS Adelaide South Aust.

Cartoons entertained...

Australian geography in England  1930

Amy Johnson aviatrix

State Library of Victoria

accessed via TROVE

out of copyright

I would think that the nurses in South Australia were a little more than surprised.. some things don't change, the tax man cometh.

World's News (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 1955), Wednesday 9 July 1930, page 3

National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136305907

 Lucky for Sir Max Pemberton # that my mother was just a new born baby or she would have fired back in no uncertain times at these suggestions. She worked from a very early age till her final illness, at just 51 years of age, made that impossible.

Margaret Joy, known as Peg, was the daughter of an Irish lass and her husband, a third generation Australian of English heritage. She was a third great grandaughter of an Irish convict lass, Bridget Heslin and an English convict, Robert Hobbs...

 She fought for the rights of all and led by example. Like so many women of her age, she was not the type to be found only in the kitchen, rather she worked alongside my father, in cafes (she married her boss), in trucking (doing the bookwork) and later in their milkbar and then again in trucking... raising a family along the way... all this despite indifferent health most of her life.

She embraced technology as it appeared, mastering two way radios to organise the mini fleet of trucks they had. She would have loved mobile phones and computers.. the latter would have given her even more outlets for her passion of writing. 

TROVE would have been her happy hunting ground... she loved history and people. How surprised she would have been to know that she and her family made the papers... * I wish I could have shown her just a little of what was happening around the world on the day she was born... she would be fascinated.

Coffs Harbour 1930's

Photographer unknown

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# Sir Max Pemberton

* Some of the clippings mentioning Mum's family over time..

The Catholic Press (NSW : 1895 - 1942), Thursday 5 September 1918

Death of her Uncle John Dillon

From the Ryerson Index..

Death of her mother's sister, her beloved Aunt Molly

Name: FOLEY, Mary

    Location of Event: late of Ballina, formerly of Coffs Harbour and Blacktown,

    Date: 04 SEP 1987

    Subtype of Record: death notice

    Newspaper: Sydney Morning Herald

    Notes: pub. 05 SEP 1987. Browse the Ryerson Index.

Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate (NSW : 1910 - 1954), Friday 16 January 1942, page 2   National Library of Australia  http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article173034516
Death of her mother, Bridget..

Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate (NSW : 1910 - 1954), Friday 23 March 1945, page 2      National Library of Australia   http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article173132556
 Her father, Roy, before the court..

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