Autumn 2023
Wednesday, April 26. 2023
Hello all, I have decided it is about time I did another entry. Covid has settled down, although we have 64 cases in the Bundaberg Base Hospital. I have had a severe bout of sciatica which has slowed me down, however, now under some control. I am back working on the trimaran hoping to have it ready for Lara and families' visit in July With this in mind I am posting in the attached gallery some photos of Raja's reconstruction. If you can't find the link in the right hand column, here is a direct link. Gordons today gallery.
I will try to produce more entries this year. Gordon
Hello all, I have decided it is about time I did another entry. Covid has settled down, although we have 64 cases in the Bundaberg Base Hospital. I have had a severe bout of sciatica which has slowed me down, however, now under some control. I am back working on the trimaran hoping to have it ready for Lara and families' visit in July With this in mind I am posting in the attached gallery some photos of Raja's reconstruction. If you can't find the link in the right hand column, here is a direct link. Gordons today gallery.
I will try to produce more entries this year. Gordon
October 1, 2022
Saturday, October 1. 2022
Over 8 months since the last entry. I am getting old and slack. Always have good intentions, but the time slips away when you are living in Paradise. The catamaran sits in the back yard covered by a mulberry tree which is in full fruit. The catamaran is white with interesting mulberry stains. The trimaran is sitting in the front yard and is being worked on. It has a rebuilt stern and reinforced fron and rear deck. I am about to reinforce the outer sides of the pontoons which have been crushed in by overweight sailors.
I will go and take some photos, should make this more interesting. Regards Gordon
Over 8 months since the last entry. I am getting old and slack. Always have good intentions, but the time slips away when you are living in Paradise. The catamaran sits in the back yard covered by a mulberry tree which is in full fruit. The catamaran is white with interesting mulberry stains. The trimaran is sitting in the front yard and is being worked on. It has a rebuilt stern and reinforced fron and rear deck. I am about to reinforce the outer sides of the pontoons which have been crushed in by overweight sailors.
I will go and take some photos, should make this more interesting. Regards Gordon
December 2021 Christmas is nigh
Friday, December 10. 2021
Well our second Christmas with Covid and little change to our World in Burnett Heads. All the houses which were for sale have been sold at record prices. All amazing as many have been sold uninspected off the internet. The RV Village is substantially complete. We have had really good rain, the first time in five years with rivers and creeks flowing brown and wide to sea.
The international catamaran still resides in the backyard. It has become a major project with strengthening of decks and hulls required. It is 2 years since I have sailed, so in desparation I have bought a Tramp Trailer-Tri. Unfortunately it also has some serious defects, the rudder is suffering from pivot wear, the mainsail is almost completely delaminated and the front deck needs rebuilding.
As yet nothing has been done as it is 34 deg here today, yesterday and tomorrow. At most, I can do 10 minutes work before I am puffing and sweating. Hope it cools off a bit to a pleasant 30 deg.
Gordon.
Well our second Christmas with Covid and little change to our World in Burnett Heads. All the houses which were for sale have been sold at record prices. All amazing as many have been sold uninspected off the internet. The RV Village is substantially complete. We have had really good rain, the first time in five years with rivers and creeks flowing brown and wide to sea.
The international catamaran still resides in the backyard. It has become a major project with strengthening of decks and hulls required. It is 2 years since I have sailed, so in desparation I have bought a Tramp Trailer-Tri. Unfortunately it also has some serious defects, the rudder is suffering from pivot wear, the mainsail is almost completely delaminated and the front deck needs rebuilding.
As yet nothing has been done as it is 34 deg here today, yesterday and tomorrow. At most, I can do 10 minutes work before I am puffing and sweating. Hope it cools off a bit to a pleasant 30 deg.
Gordon.
Friday, May 7. 2021
Its May 2021 and this is my first entry this year. Almost forgot I had this blog.
I have been in contact with a cousin from Sydney who maintains a Schubert family website. Originally I left my mother's side of the family to others. John Schubert had developed an excellent genealogy on Ancestory and in 2004 given me the GED file. It was really all done. However in 2016 my brother Bruce gave me a memorial for mum on a USB stick. His daughter Marie had researched and composed it for mum's 80th bithday. Lots of photos and correspondence. I still have not published it as I don't know where to put it.
Since getting the NBN in 2019 accessing the genealogy websites is easy, so in my spare moments I have been updating and expanding the Mclaren and Schubert family side of the family tree. This has led to several contacts with family members from the Mclaren, McKenzie, Schubert and Edwards family. The ability to click on a new relative addition was addictive and the family website in MyHeritage now has 3600 records. Far too many. The trueloves.info site has 960 records. It is interesting those that are most researched.
Myheritage has provided an image enhancement service. If you look at the Frances Fielding Schubert record, my great-grandmother, you can see the wonder of modern enhancement.
I will try harder to maintain the "force" (blog) Gordon
Its May 2021 and this is my first entry this year. Almost forgot I had this blog.
I have been in contact with a cousin from Sydney who maintains a Schubert family website. Originally I left my mother's side of the family to others. John Schubert had developed an excellent genealogy on Ancestory and in 2004 given me the GED file. It was really all done. However in 2016 my brother Bruce gave me a memorial for mum on a USB stick. His daughter Marie had researched and composed it for mum's 80th bithday. Lots of photos and correspondence. I still have not published it as I don't know where to put it.
Since getting the NBN in 2019 accessing the genealogy websites is easy, so in my spare moments I have been updating and expanding the Mclaren and Schubert family side of the family tree. This has led to several contacts with family members from the Mclaren, McKenzie, Schubert and Edwards family. The ability to click on a new relative addition was addictive and the family website in MyHeritage now has 3600 records. Far too many. The trueloves.info site has 960 records. It is interesting those that are most researched.
Myheritage has provided an image enhancement service. If you look at the Frances Fielding Schubert record, my great-grandmother, you can see the wonder of modern enhancement.
I will try harder to maintain the "force" (blog) Gordon
2020 almost gone.
Wednesday, December 30. 2020
Wonderful day today, it started raining at 7:00am and it hasn't stopped. Real rain. The weather station packed it in last week, so I will not know how much we are getting. Finally got stuck into the aluminium welding and some of it worked. Used all the argon gas up. I forgot how much it costs to weld aluminium. Won't be able to do much to the boat with the rain, so the family genealogy is the go. Gordon.
Copyright of Family Genealogy
Saturday, December 26. 2020
In trying to find a lost website I have located a Victorian site which deals with genealogy. Here is a link to an article concerning copyright.
Who Owns Genealogy? Cousins and Copyright
How Copyright Law Affects Your Research
by Gary B. Hoffman
I have some links from the past where I have not acknowledged copyright, my apologies to those authors. As with the above I try to include the author in the link.
Here is the website of Cora Num. It was established in 1997. I have just found it. I am sure everyone else has known of it for years.
Boxing Day 2020
Saturday, December 26. 2020
Have received a comment on the old family blog attached to www.truelove.id.au. I have not re-directed the mail from there to here. Christmas day was nice and quiet. The temperature had been in the low thirties for the week, but christmas day was overcaste and a pleasant 26' . Vera went to the farm to give Leo his christmas carrots and was home for coffee. There is a feeling of relief as this is the first christmas without Vergo for 17 years and there is no need to worry about the wind, tide and anchor. Even the dinghy is at home so it can rain, flood, cyclone and tempest as much as it likes, the new yacht is not going to get out of the back yard. The sun has been incredibly intense this year. A spanner left in the sun, by 10:00am is not touchable due to the heat from the sun. So, we have shade cloth, tarpaulins and gazebos covering the back yard to provide shade. My work on the new boat has slowed, still doing the little bits in the shed and have begun trying to weld aluminium again. Used the neighbor's metal lathe to turn out collars for the steering mechanism. Have completed the wiring of the autopilot and it works. There is still a good 100 hrs of work before the painting is needed. I have also spent some time on the family genealogy during the hot afternoons. Nothing like sitting in front of the computer with the air conditioning going. We still need rain, averaging about 30mm a month since October which means I need to water the fruit trees regularly. Picked a feast of mulberries, star fruit and now figs from the trees. The chocolate pudding tree has 1 fruit rippening and the paw paw has been fruiting regularly. There are bananas and passionfruit growing down the back.
The river has been fished out by commercial fishermen from the south. Very poor catches of fish and prawns by locals. Its a pity to see the lack of tinnies with families on board doing a day's fishing in the river. We have one local prawn trawler located on the river and I have not seen him out for the last month. GORDON
Who Owns Genealogy? Cousins and Copyright
How Copyright Law Affects Your Research
Have received a comment on the old family blog attached to www.truelove.id.au. I have not re-directed the mail from there to here. Christmas day was nice and quiet. The temperature had been in the low thirties for the week, but christmas day was overcaste and a pleasant 26' . Vera went to the farm to give Leo his christmas carrots and was home for coffee. There is a feeling of relief as this is the first christmas without Vergo for 17 years and there is no need to worry about the wind, tide and anchor. Even the dinghy is at home so it can rain, flood, cyclone and tempest as much as it likes, the new yacht is not going to get out of the back yard. The sun has been incredibly intense this year. A spanner left in the sun, by 10:00am is not touchable due to the heat from the sun. So, we have shade cloth, tarpaulins and gazebos covering the back yard to provide shade. My work on the new boat has slowed, still doing the little bits in the shed and have begun trying to weld aluminium again. Used the neighbor's metal lathe to turn out collars for the steering mechanism. Have completed the wiring of the autopilot and it works. There is still a good 100 hrs of work before the painting is needed. I have also spent some time on the family genealogy during the hot afternoons. Nothing like sitting in front of the computer with the air conditioning going. We still need rain, averaging about 30mm a month since October which means I need to water the fruit trees regularly. Picked a feast of mulberries, star fruit and now figs from the trees. The chocolate pudding tree has 1 fruit rippening and the paw paw has been fruiting regularly. There are bananas and passionfruit growing down the back.
The river has been fished out by commercial fishermen from the south. Very poor catches of fish and prawns by locals. Its a pity to see the lack of tinnies with families on board doing a day's fishing in the river. We have one local prawn trawler located on the river and I have not seen him out for the last month. GORDON
Family Contact
Friday, November 27. 2020
My cousin Roslyn sent me a message through Geni Family History. It was good to have her contact. Roslyn is standing in for her father "John" Schubert who died in 2009. Much of my research and detail come from John who sent me a GED file of the Schuberts and Mclarens in 2004. John also constructed a large paper family tree for Phyluss Chidgey who gave mum a copy in the late 1990s. This could have triggered my interest in the family history. In the early 2000s I concentrated on the Truelove family because John's research of mum's family , the Maclarens, had been exhaustive. It has been interesting that John Schubert communicated with John Mckenzie who had researched the Mclarens in the 1990s. John Mckenzie is still alive in Sydney and his niece Nicki has a family tree on MyHeritage.com.
Gordon
My cousin Roslyn sent me a message through Geni Family History. It was good to have her contact. Roslyn is standing in for her father "John" Schubert who died in 2009. Much of my research and detail come from John who sent me a GED file of the Schuberts and Mclarens in 2004. John also constructed a large paper family tree for Phyluss Chidgey who gave mum a copy in the late 1990s. This could have triggered my interest in the family history. In the early 2000s I concentrated on the Truelove family because John's research of mum's family , the Maclarens, had been exhaustive. It has been interesting that John Schubert communicated with John Mckenzie who had researched the Mclarens in the 1990s. John Mckenzie is still alive in Sydney and his niece Nicki has a family tree on MyHeritage.com.
Gordon
The Mclaren family homes in Harden
Wednesday, November 25. 2020
Have contacted a family member, Ray Doyle who provided me with mclaren family photos and suggested I search for more in ancestory.com. I have done so and came up with Jayne Berriman's postings in 2013. Jane has posted 2 interesting items. (1) a photo taken at her parent's wedding in 1951. and (2) an account of her grandparents movements in the early 1900s. The photo first.
Here we go from the left : Harry Silcock, Jimmy Silcock, Hazel Silcock, Sid Petty, Bert Truelove, Bruce Truelove in his mother, Hazel Truelove's arms. George Edwards, Barbara Petty, Peggy Petty, Alec Mclaren, Eric Connors, Edith Mclaren, Agnes Connors, Hector Mclaren, Auntie Et,Tom Clarke, Heather Cowan,Pamela Cowan, Frank Cowan, Auntie Flo Mclaren and the rest are the Clarke Family. I am not in the photo, I must have been telling the photographer how to do it.
Where the McLaren's lived
George and Elizabeth McLaren were Bob's grandparents.George McLaren was a signalman for the railway in Harden.George built a house alongside the railway line for himself and Elizabeth in Whitton Lane not far from the station.George & Elizabeth raised their family in the house in Whitton Lane and when George died in Elizabeth moved to Belmore in Sydney to be near one of her daughters, Hazel.Grandmother Elizabeth and Hazel lived with Bob's parents Alec & Edith (McLaren), Bob,his brother George and sister Agnes above a fruit shop in Burwood Rd Belmore.When Hazel married Burt Truelove they bought a "run-down" house in Forsyth Street Belmore which Alec Mclaren renovated and Elizabeth lived there with Hazel & Burt.Alec, Edith and family continued to live in the flat above the fruit shop in Burwood Rd.The house in Whitton Lane remained in the family,Agnes (McLaren) another daughter lived there with her husband "Curly" Edwards (who also worked for the railway) and their four children Betty,Mavis,Ron & Billy.During the depression when Bob was about 6 years of age Bob went to Harden to live with Agnes, Curly & the Edwards family in Whitton Lane.Alec & Edith McLaren followed and lived in Harden for about 6-7 years.Bob recalls one day a local fellow named "Shiny" Bright told Alec that he heard the Public Works Dept. were offering jobs to carpenters for the construction of Burrunjuck Dam.Alec was successful in getting a job there and family moved to Burrunjuck.When Curly Edwards died Agnes Edwards stayed in Harden but moved to the other side of the railway line and closer to town.The house in Whitton Lane was then occupied by the other side of my Bob's family, his maternal grandparents - William & Sophie James.The house was demolished in the 1970’s after the death of William James , the only remaining landmark is a Peppercorm tree.The story goes that twin baby girls are buried near the tree.Sadly we do not have any good photos of the house.
Jayne Berriman wrote this on 5th September 2013.
The story from my recollections is :
The young couple after the marriage lived in a pisi house to the south of Harden near the Demondrille Creek. I was taken to a ruined mud house in that location in the 1950's by my cousin Robert Lemon. We walked there from auntie Agg's house. In those days Harden railway station was a hive of activity and behind auntie Agg's house was a large carriage shed full of old single door carriages. We had to walk as far down the line as the Butter Factory before we could cross the railway line to get to the pisi house. There are some pictures available of this house. The ruins had a nest of black snakes.
This is a photo taken in the 1890s of the front of the pisi house,
From the left, Ethel Francis Schubert, George Kenneth Mclaren and Elizabeth Maclaren holding Francis Agnes Mclaren.
When I visited Harden in the 1950s Auntie Agg lived in a house on the Yass Rd, now called Burley Griffin Way. It was one of 4 similar houses. From the aerial map of Harden Whitton Lane runs parallel to Burley Griffith Way on the same side of the railway line. It is interesting that the properties as shown now do not extend all the way to Whitton Lane as they did in the 1950s. Robert Lemon and I use to go down the property past the outside toilet then the large wood heap and straight into the railway easement. Then sneak over the railway line through some trees so the signal men in the signal house could not see us and into the creek area to shot some rabbits.
I always felt that mum had been born in this house. As she was the youngest, the other two young girls may have been been born in a house in Whitton Lane. From Jayne's account, Uncle Alec appears to have been. Anyway she was certainly brought up in it as she could make the chip hotwater heater sing. I also believed that it was a railway house and after George Mclaren died grandma Elizabeth was eventually forced to vacate. The house is still there and I cannot say whether the Edwards ever owned the house. Auntie Agg died in the house. Mum and Dad did attend the funeral.
I would conjecture that the whole of the area was controlled by NSW Railways. They would have permitted the railway workers to build dwellings on the land in Whitton Lane. Later on as Harden railway yards became a junction, the government would build some houses for the senior railway men. George Mclaren was at the time of his death a stationary engine driver. He drove the large steam powered crane which unloaded the heavy items from the wagons. He died intestate in 1917, he did not own the house they lived in.
Grandma Elizabeth and the 3 young girls moved to Sydney in the period 1918 to 1825. Alec Mclaren married Edith James in 1926 in Harden so he stayed in Harden. Mum had stories of Auntie Peg slipping down the fire escape to meet uncle Sid in Belmore. They married in 1928. The family were living in the shop in Burwood Rd Belmore which grandmother ran before 1928. Both Jessie and Hazel were living with Grandmother until 1933 when both married in November of that year. This was possibly when Alec and Edith arrived with children to live with Elizabeth. In 1935 Elizabeth was living at 476 Burwood Rd with Alec and Edith Mclaren. In 1935 Hazel and Bert were living at 9 Forsythe St, Belmore. He was calling himself Albert Arthur even then. In 1937 and 1939 Elizabeth was residing at 209 Belmont St Redfern. Hazel and Bert where at 71
By 1946 Elizabeth and Hazel with Bert were at 9 Forsythe St Belmore.
Have contacted a family member, Ray Doyle who provided me with mclaren family photos and suggested I search for more in ancestory.com. I have done so and came up with Jayne Berriman's postings in 2013. Jane has posted 2 interesting items. (1) a photo taken at her parent's wedding in 1951. and (2) an account of her grandparents movements in the early 1900s. The photo first.
Here we go from the left : Harry Silcock, Jimmy Silcock, Hazel Silcock, Sid Petty, Bert Truelove, Bruce Truelove in his mother, Hazel Truelove's arms. George Edwards, Barbara Petty, Peggy Petty, Alec Mclaren, Eric Connors, Edith Mclaren, Agnes Connors, Hector Mclaren, Auntie Et,Tom Clarke, Heather Cowan,Pamela Cowan, Frank Cowan, Auntie Flo Mclaren and the rest are the Clarke Family. I am not in the photo, I must have been telling the photographer how to do it.
Where the McLaren's lived
Updating The Family Tree
Thursday, October 29. 2020
Have been crunching the numbers down with MyHeritage, There were 1400 + referenced entries to check and I now have 836 left. "Hunter" popped up in the NSW wedding listings and I have added her and Wallace to the published family tree. I have added more details to the Illabo Trueloves. Gordon.
End of October
Monday, October 26. 2020
It has been a hot month, however, it is the perfect weather we moved here for. Nice warm days and cool nights. Rained yesterday, about 4mm, but there appears to be more around. The river is empty of tourists with some good northerlies blowing. Election this saturday, we have already voted in Bargara. I have been lax with working on the boat, fiddling around really. Will have the steering and auto pilot attached by the next weekend. Have solved the connect of the forward deck lateral with two slide slots. Need to jack the stern up so fitting the mast lift will be easier. The mast base is completed and ready to be fitted.
Gordon
It has been a hot month, however, it is the perfect weather we moved here for. Nice warm days and cool nights. Rained yesterday, about 4mm, but there appears to be more around. The river is empty of tourists with some good northerlies blowing. Election this saturday, we have already voted in Bargara. I have been lax with working on the boat, fiddling around really. Will have the steering and auto pilot attached by the next weekend. Have solved the connect of the forward deck lateral with two slide slots. Need to jack the stern up so fitting the mast lift will be easier. The mast base is completed and ready to be fitted.
Gordon
Roller Bearing filament feed
Saturday, October 10. 2020
Attached photos show several innovations to assist the filament feed. Roller bearing fitted with spacers to accomodate different internal diameter rolls of filament.
Changes to Geeetech A10 for more reliability
Saturday, October 10. 2020
Attached photos show several innovations to assist the filament feed. The roller at the end lessens the angle of the feed ensuring the entry point at the feeder is straight and not an acute angle.
Attached photos show several innovations to assist the filament feed. Roller bearing fitted with spacers to accomodate different internal diameter rolls of filament.
Attached photos show several innovations to assist the filament feed. The roller at the end lessens the angle of the feed ensuring the entry point at the feeder is straight and not an acute angle.
Visitors in the River
Friday, October 9. 2020
The number of boats staying in the river both here and in the Bundaberg town reach is reaching plague proportions. The police have been checking yachts this week with their little black books being filled with pertinent details. It is good to see the river being used again as it was 10 years ago when we first arrived here.
Gordon
Advancing Science
Friday, October 9. 2020
An old sailor from the Burnett River has some interesting theories on the nature of gravity. He has been attempting to publish the theories through the printed media and the internet. In conversation earlier this week I suggested he start a blog about his theory of gravity. After much thought he has decided to do so. have a look at www.gravity.today.
Gordon
The number of boats staying in the river both here and in the Bundaberg town reach is reaching plague proportions. The police have been checking yachts this week with their little black books being filled with pertinent details. It is good to see the river being used again as it was 10 years ago when we first arrived here.
Gordon
An old sailor from the Burnett River has some interesting theories on the nature of gravity. He has been attempting to publish the theories through the printed media and the internet. In conversation earlier this week I suggested he start a blog about his theory of gravity. After much thought he has decided to do so. have a look at www.gravity.today.
Gordon