Quartermaine Country

Originally Published  30 November 2015:   Warning: This post is concerned with Indigenous family history and carries the names of many deceased persons. Content addresses heritage relating to the Noongar branch of the Quartermaine family and by extension many others. Some assumptions may challenge existing beliefs. I should also point out that …

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Interlude Pursued – Part 6

Originally Published 11 October 2014: Cross-cultural understanding and the difficulty in researching old family histories Preface: The following post, as with others in the Interlude sequence, contains the names and images of deceased Aboriginal persons. Also contained is a discussion about the difficulties Aboriginal families of the South West of Western Australia …

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