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Brooke Wooldridge
Writer & Family Historian

Are you curious To Know your family’s story?

I research and write stories of convicts and colonists, soldiers and shipbuilders, missionaries and mothers. Stick around. I’ll tell you a story.

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Improve your family history writing by listening to podcasts
Improve your family history writing by listening to podcasts

If you want to get in the mood for a dusty trawl through the archives, crank up the history podcasts.

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History, WritingBrooke WooldridgeSeptember 10, 2021Genealogy, Family history, podcasts Comment
From Lone Pine to Fromelles
From Lone Pine to Fromelles

Herbert Henry Bartley was a pillar of his community. His friends and family felt ‘it was impossible for him to refuse to lend his assistance to public matters’ and Herb himself stated that ‘he had long been anxious to get into a bigger field for his energies.’ What ‘bigger field’ could there be than the First World War?

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Biography, MilitaryBrooke WooldridgeNovember 21, 2020Bartley, Herbert Henry Bartley, Delegate, Gallipoli, Fromelles, Anzac
Who is the Woman Wearing a Golden Coronet?
Who is the Woman Wearing a Golden Coronet?

Family historians, especially Australian family historians, are often heard to exclaim, “Trove! It’s research gold.” Today, I literally found gold in Trove, and it helped me unravel the mystery of this old photo.

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ResearchBrooke WooldridgeMarch 31, 2020Jones, Cavanagh, Gore, TroveComment
What was it like on a convict ship?
What was it like on a convict ship?

The Maitland convict voyage of 1844 was a turning point in Australia's convict history. The ship was transporting a significant number of 'lifers', directly to Norfolk Island for the first time. They would serve their probation on Norfolk Island before being transferred to Van Diemen’s Land.

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History, ConvictsBrooke WooldridgeJanuary 24, 2020convicts, ship, voyage, Australia, Norfolk Island, Maconochie
A Convict Life
A Convict Life

If the NSW police had cross-referenced databases in 1867, they might have discovered what happened to convict Patrick Joyce, who disappeared from the convict records around 1839.

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Biography, ConvictsBrooke WooldridgeMay 9, 2019convicts, research, Joyce
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I research and write stories of convicts and colonists, soldiers and shipbuilders, missionaries and mothers. Stick around. I’ll tell you a story.

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