by Karen | May 20, 2020 | Australian Colonial History, Australian Legal History, Biographies, Family History, Social History
Frederick Foot is not well known but he is acknowledged for his key role in one of the earliest infamous events in Australia’s colonial history, the Myall Creek Massacre in 1838. It is Frederick Foot who is credited with informing Governor Gipps of the unprovoked...
by Karen | Mar 8, 2020 | Famous, Social History
Famous Footes: These aren’t biographies but highlight some of the famous Footes of their day. Samuel Foote (1720 - 1777) Actor / Dramatist / Playwright / Satarist Samuel Foote was famous in his day perhaps infamous, and is not quite forgotten. A London actor...
by Karen | Feb 24, 2020 | Biographies, Mariners
I came across several photos of a Captain Foote in the online catalogue of the Nelson Provincial Museum of New Zealand. After some initial research it was clear Captain Foote was Alexander Bedward Foote, whose family I had recently been researching in various...
by Karen | Feb 22, 2020 | Ephemera, Social History
Sifting through a folder at the archives, you have a general idea of the contents but you don’t know what interesting items you may find that pique your interest. These invoices from 1909, in a file of administrative papers, are typical of the period with their...
by Karen | Feb 12, 2020 | Biographies, Family History, Social History
William Henry Capes (1823 – 1897), merchant’s clerk, shopkeeper, lay-reader, and schoolteacher was baptised on 2 February 1823 at St. Peter’s Church, Manchester, England. He was the son of William Capes, a wealthy auctioneer of Manchester and his second wife...
