Category: Kunkel Family History

The Kunkel family in Australia or Bavaria

Australia Day 2011 meme: the importance of church records and archives to my early documents.

25 January, 2011

Shelley from http://twigsofyore.blogspot.com/ has invited us to submit an Australia Day post on our blogs. She suggests that we “Find the earliest piece of documentation you have about an ancestor in Australia. If you don’t have an Australian ancestor, then choose the earliest piece of documentation you have for a relative in Australia” On Wednesday … More Australia Day 2011 meme: the importance of church records and archives to my early documents.

Surname Sunday-my “families of interest”

9 January, 2011

It’s time to list my “families of interest” again: not just those on my own family tree, but those I’ve come to research:   KUNKEL:  George, son of Adam & Katharina from Dorfprozelten, Bavaria (Bayern), Germany to Australia -mid-C19th.  Brickwall is his brother Joseph Philip or Philip Joseph Kunkel who reportedly went to “America”. O’BRIEN: Mary … More Surname Sunday-my “families of interest”

Book reading: Jondaryan Station: the relationship between pastoral capital and pastoral labour 1840-1890

5 January, 2011

During the holidays I was reading this book by Jan Walker, published by UQ Press back in 1988. It’s been on my “to do” list for some time & I finally got down to reading it. The book was easy to read but also very informative and insightful, adding new information to previous readings I’d … More Book reading: Jondaryan Station: the relationship between pastoral capital and pastoral labour 1840-1890