Home Among the Gum Trees

This Australia Day, I set myself a challenge to write a brief overview of my ancestors who made us who we are today, fair dinkum true-blue Aussies. Some came of their own accord, paying for their passage, while others were sent here courtesy of the British Government and whom we now call Australian Royalty! This...

Random Fact

In a previous newsletter, I wrote about Edmund Alexander Delisser, the surveyor who named the Nullarbor Plain. Following on from their time in South Australia, Edmund and Alfred were in Victoria and later followed their brother Adam Lymburner to Queensland. Adam is my great-grandfather, an analytical chemist, in Gympie.  We learnt earlier that Edmund was...

Bearded

When the prompt for this week came through, I was immediately drawn to my bearded ancestors Edmund Alexander Delisser and his brother Alfred Delisser. Their older brother is my great-great-grandfather, Adam Lymburner. I've written about the Delisser's and the Lymburner's throughout the year (See below links to these stories or select the Surname in the...

The Mysterious Deaths of Two Siblings in the Delisser Family

On my father's side of the family, through his mother Annie Cripps nee Lymburner, we have the surname of Delisser/ de Lisser. The story about how the name was changed from Delisser to Lymburner was written about in an earlier newsletter this year. My great great grandfather was born Adam Lymburner Delisser and due to...

Adam Lymburner Lymburner [1824-1893]

In all my writings over the past few years, it wasn't until I was searching for whose birthday was closest to mine for the next blog prompt, that I realised I've not told the story fully about my 2nd great-grandfather Adam Lymburner Delisser. Other than the story of how he came to change his name...

Adam Lymburner (1747-1836)

What does one do with a blog prompt titled "Close Up"? Is this Up Close and Personal, or something that is close to your heart, or is it that you've looked at something close up and it has revealed more than that first glance, or a close up photo!? In week 9, I wrote about "Where...

Quest for Lymburner Ancestry

Family history research can take you on some wonderful journeys as you try to piece together the jigsaw puzzles of one's ancestry. There is one surname in our family that catches me side tracking to, all the time. That is the name of Lymburner, my grandmother's maiden name on my father's side and our connection...

Where there’s a Will!

I was fairly new to researching, maybe a couple of years in, when I'd heard the story from my grandmother that her grandfather Adam Lymburner, had changed his name and if he didn't he would not inherit some money. Well, not being sure what all that meant, I started digging. Where would I find out...

Minor Detail – Big Results

30 years ago, researching your family history was all about writing letters, reading how-to books, talking with other genealogists at group meetings, driving to the city 5 hours away to spend the weekend in the State Record Office and Library, reading more books and finding others with the same research interests. The mail man became...