Heritage Notebooks - Family Stories:

 Boyd/Bloomfield Brook, Bromidge, Buck, Burke, Burton,

 Carver (4th. GG Great father), Coates, Cole, Cuthbert,

Dawson, Day, Dibb, Donohoe, Dorward, Dunton,

Egan, (Brook/Eady), Hartley, Heusley, Hargrove, 

Lawless, Lee,  Luck/Beck, Lynch,

 Marjoram, Marler/Marlow, McCarthy, McElhinney, 

Patrick, Putland, Pearson, Purcell

Ransom, Ryan, Robertson,

Smith, Stormont, Sunderland, Sullivan, 

Tabor, Upton, Walters, Watt

Quotations:

Matthew 23 / 35: " heaven and earth shall pass away, my word will not pass away."

Quote: "We all experience that when people die they continue to exist, in a certain way, in the memory and heart of those who knew and loved them. We might say that a part of the person lives on in them but it resembles a "shadow" because this survival in the heart of their loved ones is destined to end. God, on the contrary, never passes away and we all exist by virtue of his love." Pope Benedict XVI gave this explanation of what is meant by heaven.

Quote: "The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores."

 ~ Martin Amis - British novelist, essayist and short story writer.

  Quote: In about 1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson prepared some essays for publication in 1841 and in one of them, entitled "History" ~ which Emerson placed first in this volume of essays ~ wrote that:- 

"...man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots,

whose flower and fruitage is the world..."

If this is true, it would follow that:

Human Societies tend to rise out of the Human Condition as directly influenced by Human Nature!

poem of George Eliot (1819 - 1880) aka. Miriam Evans "O May I join the choir invisible" (Listen) -.

First stanza:

"O may I join the choir invisible

Of those immortal dead who live again

In minds made better by their presence; live

In pulses stirred to generosity,

In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn

Of miserable aims that end with self,

In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,

And with their mild persistence urge men’s minds

To vaster issues.

So to live is heaven".       10

Continuing Stanzas: See References 2. Extract <Copyright D.Lothrop and Company,1884>

Notes:

1. History of Ideas. A narrative is a traditional way historians go about writing and is a most prosaic form of fiction.

2. Continued - George Santayana - "When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, ...., infancy is perpetual."

3.  Remembering

Australian heritage can be represented by it’s stages of development, firstly the indigenous people, their story is now being heard, together with their relationships to other Asian nations; more recently through systems put in place by European trading nations, who appear to have first arrived on these shores in the year 1606, when Dutch and Spanish parties mapped the Western district in the name of “New Holland” and sailed as far as “Van Diemen’s Land” in the South. They had begun “the discovery” predating Britain’s claim in 1770 and occupation in 1788 by 164 years.

Five hundred years on, with our information revolution, we can endeavouring to review many human interest stories. We have available to us, the early settlers stories, via governing authority and newspaper records, telling of diverse lives seeking a future in harsh terms, and we add to that many literary works and personal family story tellers, who have envisaged their own perspective, from ancestors to today, as a development over  time in a series of small steps. Like a mountain range the steppes are gradual and stand before the tall heights.

Keynotes in these stages begin when Trade winds blow, bringing sailing ships from Europe and from the East and West Indies with cargo and peoples from other lands.

1. Settler's establishing themselves against great odds in environment and climate. 

2. Dislocation of indigenous people and breaking down their Dreamtime stories.

3. Immigrants and convicts alike, through their own industry, could achieve landed status, in the early days through Government land grants. For many this meant labourers on property to be clear felled of timber and establishing a lifestyle around sheep and cattle, growing wheat and barley animal fodda and gradually also collaboration in processing food for human consumption.

4. British Military and Naval men and Administrators organised transport and supplies, and could manage the logistics for immigrant people's including convict labour, arriving from the Kings dominions, enabling them by giving opportunity to work and prosper under good governance, generally in the modus operandi common to the English homeland.

5. By the 1850s mining and gold fever took hold and an influx of "new chums" arrived. Living in canvas towns in the bush, outskirts of towns and on the goldfields many could earn a living and some prospered.

6. Tradesmen required to man the ships and the sawmills, build the coaches, shepherd the sheep, 

7. Merchants establishing and integrating trade from around the globe.

8. Taking work from labourers, shepherds and farmers to running butcher shops and establish government careers - the railway men.

9. Fortune hunters and men of good fortune who acquired land invested in industry and built opportunity, together with villagers and towns people. These people were considerate of community values supporting the infrastructure and welfare, schools and hospitals.

10. Good fortune in the discovery of abundance in land and minerals which provided wealth to some and subsistence to many. Much of the wealth was returned home.

11. Trade and government integration in world affairs, including 19th and 20th century wars, Nationalistic battles. By the post WWII period these wars contributed to multicultual endeavours and the dawning vision of a fragile earth environment.

12. Population increases required capital cities and metropolis built around ports and transport centres. Professional careers expands through tertiary students in post war world.

13. By 21st. century there were many eight to ten generational families living in Australia. Generational challenge with populations expanding beyond capacity.

Historical consciousness: defined as individual and collective understandings of the past, the cognitive and cultural factors which shape those understandings, as well as the relations of historical understandings to those of the present and the future. (Quote: Source: Centre for studies of historical consciousness)