by William Thomas Duperouzel | 1 Mar, 2019 | Petrosellum |
Australian Heritage Festival – 18 April – 19 May 2019. This is a great opportunity to visit the York Residency Museum in Western Australia to see the new ‘Mini Convict Exhibition’. Our French GGF Aimable Ciril Duperouzel is being featured as...
by William Thomas Duperouzel | 31 Aug, 2018 | Petrosellum |
Police Constable Alexander Duperouzel’s bush tracking skills saved a man’s life after being lost in the bush for three days in the rough country south of Gingin, Western Australia In September 1961, to mark the occasion when Police Sergeant Alexander Duperouzel, known...
by William Thomas Duperouzel | 14 Aug, 2018 | Petrosellum |
GGF Aimable Ciril Duperouzel, a pioneer of York, Western Australia loved to exhibit his horses at the York Agricultural Show. These horses were bred on his family farm at Qualen, near York. This photo is believed to have been taken in the late 1880s / early 1890s and...
by William Thomas Duperouzel | 14 Aug, 2018 | Petrosellum |
This engaging photograph shows the large family of Julia Maud Ovens, known as Maudie, and her husband William Ovens, known as Bill (Maudie was the daughter of GGF Aimable Duperouzel and GGM Julia Neagle). Those featured include Jim Henry Ovens, Ruby Ashworth, Laudie...
by William Thomas Duperouzel | 14 Aug, 2018 | Petrosellum |
What is the connection between the Reverend Frederick Lynch, my French GGF Aimable Ciril Duperouzel and the convict ship ‘Lord Raglan’? In early 1858 Revd. Lynch and his family travelled as free settlers from England on the convict ship, ‘Lord Raglan’, arriving in...
by William Thomas Duperouzel | 18 Jun, 2018 | Petrosellum |
19 June 1861: Remembering Frédéric Surget, a convict of French origin from Isingy-sur-Mer, Calvados, #4841, known as ‘grand Surget’, who was a friend of my French GGF Aimable Ciril Dupérouzel, from Saint Aubin-du-Perron, near Coutances, Manche, convict #4840. Both men...
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