HeyJaredAnne’s Family History
I write about my family history: I have forebears from Australia, the United Kingdom, and Europe - and even some from the United States.
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My Huguenot ancestors flee France (opens the original)
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Eight of my eighth great grandparents were Huguenots, French Calvinists, members of the Reformed Church of France.(This is about 1.5% of my 8th great grandparents; everyone has up to 512 ancestors at this level of their family tree).<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8uzI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa31fb6be-9c63-421b-91a0-
Immigration to Australia: 53 immigrant ancestors and the bigger picture (opens the original)
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In an earlier post about immigration I looked at the 53 overseas-born ancestors of our children who came to Australia. Most of them arrived in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, with 49 of the 53 here in Australia by the end of the 1850s. What place did our family have in the story of immigration to Australia?European settlement of Australia began in 1788. The Australian Bureau of Statistic
From 1823 to 1960: 53 immigrant ancestors (opens the original)
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Our children have 53 ancestors who immigrated to Australia. Most arrived during the nineteenth century.<img alt="fan chart" class="sizing-normal" height="405" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nJUF!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/ht
What happened to William Owen Mitchell? (opens the original)
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A few days ago one of my cousins named Alan left a comment on a post I wrote in 2021. It was about my fourth great grandfather, a missionary William Mitchell. Alan wondered if I knew when William’s father, William Owen Mitchell, died.His comment prompted me to revisit my research, and I now have an answer. William Owen Mitchell died on 16 November 1809, not in Dublin, as the family story would have it, but in Albany, New York. The family story had it that he was killed in a Dublin rio
Friz Boltz at Verdun (opens the original)
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In 2015 I wrote about the military career of my great-grandfather, Fritz Hermann Boltz (1879–1954).Fritz had been a career soldier before the First World War. He joined the 35th Fusilier Regiment, Füsilier-Regiment Prinz Heinrich von Preußen (Brandenburgisches) Nr. 35, in October 1899 and rose through the ranks to Vizefeldwebel, or se
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