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A Meeve relative: A research sidetrack in Tasmania

When map reading I note that we are close to the place a distant relative of grandson no 2 died and was  buried. The family story is that he was struck by lightning but a little research indicates he was struck by a tree limb that he was felling.   Something to beware of when researching: how time and re-telling changes fact. I also note how first aid practices have changed. A sad story. INQUEST MARRAWAH  An inquest was held at Marrawah  Friday, before Mr. H. G. Spicer, coroner,  and a jury (Mr. K. C. Laughton fore man) touching the death of Michael Wil liam Meeve, which occurred at Marra wah on the previous day.  Sergeant Donoghue, of Stanley, repre sented the district police, and made the  necessary arrangements for holding the  enquiry.  Bernard Charles Cronin, a farmer, resid ing near Marrawah, deposed to being ac quainted with the deceased, whom he had  employed to assist him in clearing on his  farm. Witness and the deceased, Meeve,  started to work in company on the morn ing

Wattle Day and a contemporary response to Olga Ernst's fairy tales.

http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/ 1399498/badge-wattle-day-australia-1914-1918 Every so often I quietly 'google' for new references to Olga Ernst and today, appropriately as it is 'Wattle Day', I was rewarded with two new references to Olga's fairy tales. I have been researching Olga's contribution for almost four years and I am thrilled to see some momentum building through the interest of others in her story. From the Storytelling Guild's blog  Q&A about Olga Ernst in this interview with Belinda Calderone Vonny Kemister is testing a story to tell at the Botanic Garden. Vonny’s story comes from Olga Earnst’s [sic] Fairy Tales from The Land of the Wattle (1904) A reference to my talk at Brighton Historical Society in 2012 My research would not be so rich or so accurate without the help of Ernst relatives who have sourced further information, fellow researchers, friends in the Melbourne Lutheran Trinity community and of course my c