Renie Dillane
Spasmodic barely published writer of blogs, fiction and newsletters
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05/02/2022
Bell's story demanded telling. She's not my ancestor, but I found her in the records and couldn't look away until I'd learned her whole life.
https://historybylarzus.com/index.php/2022/02/06/scotch-bella-a-complicated-story-of-early-south-australia/
Scotch Bella: A Complicated Story of Early South Australia (Waiting For Breakfast’ from The Sunday at Home magazine 1870) Recently the South Australian prison records were digitized and made available on Familysearch and I’ve spent some time br…
26/01/2022
I'm not sure how readable this is, it's almost more of a research report than a blog post. But here it is anyway.
https://historybylarzus.com/index.php/2022/01/26/jane-leahy-curiously-absent-from-everywhere/
Jane Leahy – Curiously Absent from Everywhere (Image from an 1870s magazine) Week 4 – Curious. There are plenty of puzzles in my family tree. Despite all my efforts, Jane Leahy is still one of them. Warning: this post is hea…
Week 3 of 52Ancestors 2022
https://historybylarzus.com/index.php/2022/01/18/beryl-reading-a-baby-on-a-postcard/
16/01/2022
Week 2-Favourite Find (View of the City of Dublin) This week's prompt for 52 Ancestors is 'Favourite Find'. I have many, but I've not yet written about this family. It's definitely time. Finding Patrick Dillon broke down a very persistent brick wall. This is partly a post, partly a scrapbook of quotes by others about the world of Patrick Dillon....
https://historybylarzus.com/index.php/2022/01/16/patrick-dillon-of-dublin/
Patrick Dillon of Dublin Week 2-Favourite Find (View of the City of Dublin) This week’s prompt for 52 Ancestors is ‘Favourite Find’. I have many, but I’ve not yet written about this fam…
Week One-Foundations Valdivia ancestor sculpture with two faces This year I'm participating again in Amy Johnson Crow's '52 Ancestors', which means I write a blog post every week about ancestry based on a supplied topic prompt. The prompt for week one is 'Foundations'. Foundations have always challenged me because there is always a 'before'. How do you draw the line?...
https://historybylarzus.com/index.php/2022/01/06/where-does-anything-begin/
27/11/2021
Aphra Crayford is hard to spot in a plethora of deeds, wills, land titles and political disputes, but she's still very much in the picture. She was married at the age of twenty two and settled with her husband in Ireland where she raised a large family. She saw the transfer of the British throne from monarch to monarch to parliament to monarch again....
https://historybylarzus.com/index.php/2021/11/27/whats-in-a-name-the-astounding-footprint-of-aphra-crayford-1587-1662/
What’s In A Name? – The Astounding Footprint of Aphra Crayford (1587-1662) Aphra Crayford is hard to spot in a plethora of deeds, wills, land titles and political disputes, but she’s still very much in the picture. She was married at the age of twenty two and settle…
21/11/2021
Dean, Frank; On the Irish Coast; Leeds Museums and Galleries; Just who was Richard Peard of 1600s Cork? I have a decades long fascination for the British plantations in Ireland. I've read everything I could find about them - which actually isn't much. Popularised accounts tend to be polarised or romanticised and I don't have easy access to scholarly databases....
https://historybylarzus.com/index.php/2021/11/21/richard-peard-buried-1683-in-cork/
Richard Peard buried 1683 in Cork Dean, Frank; On the Irish Coast; Leeds Museums and Galleries; Just who was Richard Peard of 1600s Cork? I have a decades long fascination for the British plantations in Ireland. I’ve read eve…