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Times Past
At age 82, Paul Bruce Free AM wrote 18 short essays about life in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, in the late 1930s. Life in England between World Wars I and II was much simpler than it is today. Unemployment was high, wages were low and the British government was deeply in debt, so pensions were not aligned to the cost of living. For this reason, people in need such as the aged, sick, and widowed, had to rely on their family or the Church, for assistance. Also, at this time, many basic components needed for manufacturing (e.g. nuts and bolts), were not standardized and most grocery items (e.g. butter, biscuits and tea), were not pre-packaged. Few private homes had telephones connected and so,...
Rabbit to Rocketman
Paul Free's autobiography provides some fascinating insights and anecdotes from an eventful life dedicated to science and engineering. Born in 1923, no bigger than a nine-penny rabbit, his happy childhood was shattered when he was only six years old by the sudden death of his father. Paul spent most of the next ten years at the Royal Orphanage in Wolverhampton, initially desperately unhappy and lonely, but nevertheless, benefitting from the school's combination of rigid discipline and excellent science facilities. Here he flourished and became the first boy from the school to go on to a university. On completing an honors degree in science at the University of Birmingham, he was sent, as par...
Walking in History
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The Hyden Families
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Convict Women
Who were the female convicts? What kinds of lives did they lead in a new society half a world away from home? Convict Women looks beyond the conventional images to draw a new and often surprising picture of convict women's experiences in a strange and harsh country. Beginning with the story of Maria Lord - convict, pioneer family woman, successful entrepreneur and abandoned wife - the book looks at the central themes of convict women's history in Australia, ranging from the female factories and orphan schools to sexuality and freedom. Neither damned whores nor passive victims, these women and the choices they made shaped the world in which they lived. Convict Women tells us much about the richness and complexity of life in a newly formed community. '...the most comprehensive and empathetic account to date of the experiences of Australia's convict women.' - Anne Summers 'Kay Daniels entrances us with a highly original picture of the lives of convict women. From the first page to the last we are drawn into a world very different from our own, yet also strangely recognisable and uncomfortably pertinent.' - Ann Curthoys, Manning Clark Professor of History, ANU
Flanary Family, In-laws and Outlaws
John Flanary was born in about 1756. He lived in Virginia and North Carolina. He married Phoebe Boggs and they had at least eight children. He died in about 1842. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri.
South from Hell-fer-Sartin
South from Hell-fer-Sartin, a short creek flowing into the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River, lies one of the of the most isolated regions in Kentucky. There, on the north slope of the Pine Mountain range in Leslie and Perry counties—probably the last stronghold of white, English-language folk tales in North America—Leonard W. Roberts recorded this rich collection more than three decades ago. To a people who, at that time, watched dancing hearth fires more often than television, the adventures of Jack in the land of witches and giants, monsters and beautiful princesses, provided first-class entertainment. Here are such old favorites as "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Golden Arm," retold in th...
Forney Forever
The Fourney family of the Southern States.
