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Blog Articles - 2026

Connecting Dot
28th January
 My mother Dorothy Gertrude Butler was born 100 years ago this month on the 21st of January 1926 in her family's solid brick house in South Melbourne opposite the Eastern Road primary school where 3 generations of my family learned to read and write.
Genial Rogue or Scoundrel?
25th August
 The task of investigating William Courtney's life was made more difficult by the fact that like many people of that time he wasn't very particular about what information he put on official records.

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