The Family Tree of Tom White Melville Winder
by Davina Best At our AGM in November 2025, Peter Sherlock gave an entertaining description of how we found who the parents of Tom White
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Australian History
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Ellen Johnson and Mary Lyster – a DNA discovery
by Davina Best For more than 25 years, Peter Sherlock has argued that Ellen Johnson was the biological sister of Mary Lyster. They were most
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Two Early Australian Sisters – Ellen Johnson Winder & Mary Lister Dodds
By Peter Sherlock [Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the HAFS Journal of May 2000 – issue 5-3. Please refer to the journal to
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Melissa Doyle to Host Oprah Winfrey’s Australian Tour
‘The 15-year-old wannabe journo inside of me is squealing. What an honour.’ Doyle [E.2.4a.9b.1c.3d.1e] revealed she spoke with the American talk show icon via Zoom
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Phoebe Hosier was in the crowd when shots rang out at Donald Trump’s rally
Pheobe Hosier [E.2.4a.7b.1c.2d.1e.1f], is a journalist and works for the ABC as a cross-platform producer, based in Washington DC in the United States. She and her partner went to the Trump rally for “the experience” but ended up experiencing more than she expected, becoming part of an event that echoed around the world!
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Who Do You Think You Are?
TV presenter Melissa Doyle [E.2.4a.9b.1c.3d.1e] is featured on the Australian Who Do You Think You Are? on 11 June 2024 at 7:30pm on SBS, or watch it afterwards on SBS On Demand.
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2024 Archibald Prize won by Laura Jones for portrait of author Tim Winton
Sydney-based artist Laura Jones [H.4a.4b.2c.1d/E.6.5a.4b.2c.1d.1e] has won the $100,000 Archibald Prize for her portrait of author and conservationist Tim Winton, becoming only the 12th woman to win the prize in its 103-year history.
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Hyacinth Bucket
Today (17 February 2024) is Patrica Routledge’s 95th birthday. She is best known for her performance in the BBC series Keeping Up Appearences as Hyacinth Bucket (who insists that her surname is pronounced “Bouquet”). It seems such a long time ago now, but she was able to give Dear Fay one of the greatest honours of her life as an actor and singer during a visit to Australia in the late 1990s.
List of family members in World War II – Updated
Work has begun on a HAFS book to remember our family members who served in World War II. Here is the first version of the list of people to be included. You click on a column label to sort in a different order.
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A (small) HAFS Connection to Royalty
Queen Margrethe’s second born son, Prince Joachim of Denmark (born in 1969) spent a year on a farm near Wagga Wagga in NSW from 1986-1987. The Queen and her husband Henri came to Australia in 1987 to visit him and while here, on the 6 February 1987, visited the Winery in the Hunter Valley. They were accompanied by Prince Joachim.
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Chris Tyrrell takes the Helm as President of Hunter Valley Wine & Tourism Association
Chris Tyrrell, CEO of Tyrrell’s Wines, is now the President of the Hunter Valley Wine & Tourism Association (HVWTA). He follows in the footsteps of his father, Bruce and grandfather Murray, both former Presidents of the Association.
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Australian Grape & Wine honours Di Davidson AM and Bruce Tyrrell AM as Life Members of the Australian Wine Industry.
As a fourth-generation winemaker, Tyrrell first joined his family’s business full time in 1974 and has been a key industry figure ever since. Established in 1858, Tyrrell’s has the joint honour of being Australia’s second oldest continually owned and operated family winery. In 2006, Tyrrell was recognised for his contribution to the Australian wine community with an Order of Australia Medal. His contributions have included improving grape quality, research, tourism, and export opportunities. In 2009, he was named a Hunter Valley Living Legend at the Hunter Valley Wine Industry Awards.
University of Divinity Vice-Chancellor to step down in 2024
University of Divinity Chancellor Dr Graeme Blackman AO announced on 8 September 2023 that Professor Peter Sherlock [E.4.1a.6b.5c.1d.2e] will step down as Vice-Chancellor in March 2024 after 12 years leading the University of Divinity.
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A New Vintage at Tyrrell’s
Quietly but deliberately, six weeks ago family patriarch Bruce Tyrrell [E.2.4a.10b.1c.2d] called aside son Chris [E.2.4a.10b.1c.2d.3e] and told him it was time to take the reins of what is the second-oldest continuously operated family winery in Australia.
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Back-to-Back Wins for U23 Womens’ Rowers
After winning the 2022 World Championships, Australia’s Women’s Coxed Four are now back-to-back World Champions after Katherine Easton, Sophie Houston, Zara Collisson, Emily Sheppard and coxswain Nicholas Dunlop [E.2.4a.9b.1c.3d.1e.1f] surged to a Gold medal at the World Rowing U23 Championships held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
It is near 78 years since the morning of 6 August 1945 when the Allied Forces dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was devastation by a weapon of mass destruction.
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Nundle – tales from Trove
In the mid-1800s, my great-great grandparents William Augustus Hungerford and Caroline Langstaff lived at Nundle, near where they held the lease for Barry Station, which
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A Massacre in Port Phillip 1842
When I was researching the ancestry of my husband John Wilton [E.2.2a.2b.4c.2d.1e=], I looked into Trove to find out more about his Arabin ancestors. The
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How Amelia found the woman who had saved her life
Looking through the results of a DNA database, Amelia Lewis [E.2.6a.4b.2c.1d.2e.2f] was confused to see a “self” or “twin” living in the United States. After contacting her genetic doppelganger, she was amazed to discover the woman who saved her life.
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A Greenwood Gala
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