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Part Three: Rooksdale Estate

The Continuing History of the Macveans, the Family Property at Little Billabong, and So Much More.   Banner Image: Courtesy of Adventurebeatz Travel Australia, YouTube Hello, thanks for joining me for part three of the Rooksdale story, and welcome to a new year. Yes, since I published part two, we have clicked over into 2026,…

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2025 & 2026: Finishing and Starting With A Bang!

Caution: Gnarly Photos Below. This is new, a post on me! I’m not suggesting for a minute that I might be interesting, but for a potential 2x great-grandchild in the future, it might be a different story. I realised there isn’t much content on here about me, so I’m going to try and share a…

Family History

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Wishing You a Safe and Happy 2026! Hi Everyone, I know we are already a week into it, but I just wanted to wish you all the best for 2026. I hope it will be a great year for you and those who are important to you. Alex and I were incredibly lucky over the…

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Part Two: Rooksdale Estate

The Continuing History of the Macveans & the Family Property at Little Billabong. Welcome to the next instalment of the story of Rooksdale. That amazing piece of Wiradjuri land that has meant so much not just to my own family but, as we learned in Part One, to a whole lot of other people too.…

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About Me (2026)
Hi, I’m John and I’m pictured here with my best friend in life, Alexandra and our two amazing sons, Xander & Calan.

I started this blog about seven years ago as a place to store and share all those lost stories of my family that I have been lucky enough to uncover.

My hope is that my family and any future family might find these stories as valuable as I have, in helping them discover who they are.

An unexpected gift of writing this blog has been the amazing opportunity to make connections with people all around the globe.

If you have landed here, thanks for visiting and I hope you find something of interest.

John

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