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Here us a letter from Georgiana to her mother which has been transcribed but as you can see it is very difficult to guess every word. The untranscribed words are marked in the typed transcription below with a number and xxxxx. Please number each of your guesses and send them back to us in the comments section.If you click on the photo of the handwriting you should be able to enlarge the

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"A re-enactment image - not the real dress!"We always wondered if there were any letters from Georgiana out there in the world that were not in our collection that we have sourced in Australia and the UK . One has just found its way to us via a collector who purchased the letter at an auction. The letter is from Georgiana to her friend Elizabeth.Before I continue, I must tell you about the

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On my last visit to London which co-incided with Bernice our researcher being there (for other work for the UK education department) Bernice arranged a surprise for me. I had a few days R&R and thought that visiting Kew would be relaxing. When we arrived she guided me to the Herbarium so that I could see the building and I asked her to take a photo of me on the steps. She obliged but said she had

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After five months in London my time was running out and there weren’t many days left to follow Georgiana’s trail before we returned home to Western Australia. There was just one more place I wanted to explore before we left. Just like me, in the last few weeks before her journey to Australia, she needed to do some shopping.While Georgiana and John were staying in London and waiting for The

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We stopped at Rhu (Row) to visit the place where G would have taken the ferry to Rosneath when she visited her friends while staying at Keppoch House. View back towards Rhu from the old ferry path.The road from Keppoch still you leads clearly from Rhu and along the old ferry path.The track is surfaced now but little else has changed. This is the way

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The rest of the UK was under torrential rain but we were lucky. Our last day in Scotland was sunny and we explored the old churchyard again, better equipped than the evening before. Mike had his specs with him for deciphering old writing on gravestones. He had also requisitioned his nice white face flannel for cleaning the mud and moss off the stone so we could read the inscription clearly...

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Roseneath at last It was only about a 30 minute drive to Roseneath from Keppoch House (all the way around the banks of the Gareloch) but already the sky was looking ominous so we decided to explore before the rain arrived. We took the path up the hill behind the Clachan, partly to get a good view of the village from above and partly because I felt sure that Georgiana must have enjoyed exactly the

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It didn’t surprise me to hear from Cath that Keppoch House once had its own kitchen garden. We’d already seen the size of the stables so it was clear that Alexander Dunlop was a wealthy man with all that was needed to run a comfortable country home. The kitchen garden has been sold so we peeped through the gates and imagined tidy rows of vegetables and herbs growing there in 1829. The grey, stone

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If anyone wondered why Georgiana loved staying at Keppoch House so much, they would understand if they walked in the gardens.They must have been more spectacularly manicured in 1829 and probably more formal too, but they couldn’t have been more beautiful than they are now. In the distance, from the hill where the house stands, you can just see Roseneath on the peninsula at the other side of the

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The next day Mike and I flew to Glasgow airport and hired a car to take us on the last leg of our journey travelling in Georgiana’s footsteps. The last time Jennifer and I were in Scotland we had to leave without being able to visit Keppoch House, where G was living with the Dunlop family when she married John Molloy in 1829. This time, Mike and I were on our way to see the house, thanks to the

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Travelling by taxi from the centre of Carlisle to Crosby Lodge was an exciting event in itself! I knew that G must have travelled the same road so many times by horse and carriage. After about a 30 minute drive, we arrived at the place where Georgiana spent most of her childhood. Her family having spent a few years living in the town of Carlisle, moved to the house built for them by her maternal

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At lunchtime I went straight to Abbey Street. I didn’t use a map but my feet took me there. Maybe someone was helping me! All the houses looked just as they would have been when little two year old Georgiana toddled along there holding her mother’s hand. Things haven’t changed much since the 19th Century.The stone sets are still the original ones that her tiny feet must have walked on, on the way

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I’ve been staying in the UK for more than a month now and with the chance to spend four days in the North of England and Scotland, I travelled up to Cumbria by train to meet my husband Mike there after he had finished work at a conference in Carlisle. We had a long weekend free so we planned to continue the research that Jennifer Gherardi and I had started there when we visited in March 2006. The

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Here is a new look for the blog.... still trying to get the perfect font but now we can provide you with a subscribe function so that you automatically get notification by email of a new entry. Further suggestions welcome!Jennifer (Producer)

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I'm Diana, one of Georgiana's great-great-grandaughters. Georgiana's eldest surviving daughter Sabina married Mathew Hale who had come out to Australia as archdeacon of Adelaide. He later became Bishop of Perth and subsequently Bishop of Brisbane. One of Mathew and Sabina's younger sons was Harold Hale, who was sent to a boarding school in Hobart because there were no schools his father

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Diana from Tasmania is going to join us on the blogging team. It seems that we are being contacted by quite a few descendants of Georgiana and John. Diana (nee Hale), is keen to keep updating the family tree and keep communication up. Our next task is to find a way of having the growing list of "Friends of Georgiana" subscribe to this blog so they get notification of postings automatically.I'll

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Lambs at Ardarndan Farm near Keppoch House. Last year we spent much time trying to determine where the marriage between Georgiana Kennedy and John Molloy took place. It was a pivotal time in her life journey. Her diary indicates that she saw the proposal as an answer to her prayers because she did not wish to live with her own family and felt she may outstay her welcome with the Dunlop family.

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Here we are - a researcher's dream come true - arriving at the Cumbria Record Office which is located within the castle walls. And then... you can't see Bernice's hands shaking, as she undoes the first package. The first item is a hand drawn map of the Swan River Colony by John Molloy. It is such a treasure. We hope one day it will be sent back here. It would surely be put under glass - and

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A last minute dash to Crosby Lodge, the childhood home of Georgiana, was made possible by the generous reception by the owner of this beautiful private hotel, Mrs Patricia Sedgewick.Mrs Sedgewick has a deep interest in the life of the original owners and particularly Georgiana. This house was built for her parents by Elizabeth Kennedy's father, whose estate mansion was adjacent. I think perhaps

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The beautiful Knockderry Hotel. Ask for the front room if you are lucky enough to get there! I had no idea when we booked what type of establishment this was and asked if it had a view! It is sensational. We took so many photo's I would have to work full time just to upload them and so look forward to when we get the interactive new media project up and going. This stone and the shells are so

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The Clacken: what was this? While much of the village was now urban the Clacken had been preserved. It was the town centre and trade and meeting place. Ah... the Clacken at Rosneath mentioned in so many historical writings and we were here and finally it made sense. Alistair McIntyre guided us through our first exciting connections.

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This is the original church at Rosneath where Georgiana attended while staying with the Story family. We thought that she may have been married there but further investigations reveal otherwise. The new manse at Rosneath. Finally we discovered that the original house was in such a bad state that Robert Story used the material to incorporate into this new building and there are no remains of the

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Last year I was selected by the Australian Film Commission to undertake training and internship at the New Media Department at the BBC London. Of course this was fantastic as I had really done all the training that I could in Australia. The intense training was specific to managing complex New Media projects. The internship gave me a chance to be in a dynamic working department and really seeing

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The team had an excursion to historical Wonnerup House in Bussellton. Bernice, Drew and Donna having never been there, couldn't wait to see the workbox we think belonged to Georgiana or her daughter. We hope to do some filming at this location later, so first scouted the older house for potential "sets" before going on the the big house to see the workbox.The "oohs" were prolific. Drew had to

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We no longer have the domain for georgianamolloy.com it has been hijacked (beware getting a free domain listing through a hosting service because they own it and if you change your server they will not necessarily let you take the domain name with you or they may want an exorbitant fee to do so!).Fortunately we still have georgianamolloy.com.au and generally that name is fine for our purpose.You

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Before going to LAMP we filmed some pilot footage to take to experiment with. It was great fun and some super people from Margaret River helped… Richard Todd was really fab shooting great stuff at an amazing rate. Jaqui Morris was our GM for the day and loved doing it and Diana Shores took stills. While visiting Wonnerup House (an early settler’s house) we were shown a woman’s workbox from the

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While I was in London last month I went to Kew Herbarium. Alex George (the Australian liaison officer) showed me some specimens from their archive - the actual dried plants collected by Georgiana!! She sent them by ship to the collector James Mangles around 1840. Standing there in that old building in London, being allowed to touch a specimen that she had first touched in Western Australia, so

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We are spending time undertaking in-depth research. Our aim to to provide a comprehensive resource for enjoyment and study. To this aim we are seeking partners in the film industry, publishing and education.Some of these areas will be;Georgiana Molloy's brave and passionate life storyThe history of settlement in Western AustraliaThe indigenous flora of South-Western WAThe history of botanyThe

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