Down Under

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Decided to dig into my Australian family connections this afternoon, having only really scanned the box of papers I got when Dad died. What I thought at the time eccentric: his regular habit of printing out his emails proved prescient; his AOL account is long-since electronic vapour, but the conversations with his then recently discovered cousins, remain, as if postal. Reading through them - I've not finished yet, let alone begun to collate - I'm struck by the poignancy of a much-too-late-in-the-day discovery of actual family down under, hitherto merely legend within the family; and the passage of their lives and their many vicissitudes; all of us bonded by blood and a common link to John Rudge and Sarah Parry in Ruabon [Rhiwabon], so very long ago. I'm moved to try and make contact with the surviving members of my antipodean family before it, for me, is also too late in the day. Keep you posted...

Pictured, the River Yarra, Melbourne, where my great-uncle, Arthur J. Rudge, drowned in 1960...

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  1. Helen27 July 2023 at 21:46

    Bronwyn Parry is our cousin, she's on my Facebook. Mum knows who they are and met them when came over.

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    1. Kel28 July 2023 at 11:39

      Sometimes it seems like it would be more convenient if I got back onto Facebook, but I won't out of principle! I've got the file Dad's correspondence with Gladys that I got from him before he died...

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