My Family's Photographic Heritage

I've been thinking about the wonderful photos that I have of my family.  Not just my kids (and I think they have a pretty good collection of photos!), but Ian and my parents; grandparents; and great-grandparents.  I have at least one photo of all of them except for one - and I'm hopeful that someone has a photo of his somewhere, I just have to hope they kept it and I find it someday!  I also have photos of over half of our great-great-grandparents and a few in the generation beyond that as well.  I must be pathetic, because I love looking at them and I thinking about HOW I got to have them and I also like the "numbers" associated with them - by that I mean how many, the variation of dates even though it was the same generation, the number who emigrated to Australia etc.  I also know that it is an old person hobby - but I figure that I'm getting there now, if I'm not already there, and it's useful to have an old person hobby.  So I'm very grateful to have these photographs - and other pieces of memorabilia as well!

And in the interest of trying to be more exciting that just writing, I've put one of my photos up.  In order to get a 'random' photo, I typed today's date into my database and decided that I'd use that as my guide.  The only person who came up was Robert John Woolley.  He was a great grandparent of mine and he wasn't a very nice person.  I have lots of information about him because the divorce courts has kept records regarding his behaviour.  Clara, the mother of his children, was my mother's grandmother and she has lots of memories of her grandmother - mainly that she was slightly scary.  I suspect that she become very tough after her divorce.  She had to survive!  She also ripped up every photo she could find of her wedding, but fortunately two survived and I've put one of them up.  Oh, and the only reason that this date came up was that on This date 23 June, 100 years ago, Robert John Woolley advertised for a vacant position in his butcher shop - opposite the Post Office in Rozelle, Sydney.