by William Thomas Duperouzel | 8 Dec, 2021 | Petrosellum
10th December 2021: Today, we commemorate the 120th anniversary of the death of my GGF Aimable Ciril Dupérouzel, a pioneer of York, Western Australia. Eastern Districts’ Chronicle newspaper, dated Saturday 14 December 1901, published his death notice... 
by William Thomas Duperouzel | 22 Nov, 2021 | Petrosellum
Throughout my lifetime I have been asked on numerous occasions…you have such an unusual surname, where does it come from and can you spell it please? Having carried out extensive family research with my wife, Janet, since the early 1970’s, we discovered that the... 
by William Thomas Duperouzel | 6 Apr, 2021 | Somewhere in France
James Ross Duperouzel (1897–1916) was from York, Western Australia. He was the only AIF soldier to die out of a total of 5,230 Western Front War Dead from Western Australia whose grandfather was a convict of French origin having been transported to Fremantle, Western... 
by William Thomas Duperouzel | 6 Apr, 2021 | Petrosellum
3 May 1876: Commemorating the 145th anniversary of the birth of Grand-Aunt Julia Maud Ovens, the daughter of our Irish GGM Julia Neagle and our French GGF Aimable Ciril Dupérouzel. Julia Maud, affectionately known as ‘Maudie’, married William Ovens, ‘Barney’, at... 
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