Last month I was given this book by my parents. It has been a mammoth effort by some members of the Heinicke family to put this together, and makes for interesting reading. I can't imagine how my great great grandparents sailed from Germany, about 1863, down around the cape of Africa and across to Adelaide with 3 young children, the youngest only months old! Just amazing, and then packing their belongings in a wagon and travelling to the Barossa to make a new life.
It was interesting to find out the the family once owned the Freeling Hotel, which featured in the film "McLeod's Daughters".
This is a photo of my grandmother, taken just before she turned 20.
And this is my grandparents wedding photo.
From the history to the present, a few photos of my family taken recently............
And while still on the topic of family, I have a few photos of the wedding that I attended on Saturday.
The bride is my niece on my husband's side of the family. The wedding was held under a large tree at a winery at Currency Creek, near Strathalbyn. It was a beautiful venue in perfect weather.
Dessert was an Eton Mess, which was really a lot of meringues, with cream and strawberries, that was almost 2 metres long!!
It was a lovely wedding, and a good chance to catch up with family that I don't see very often. Although this was a wedding on my husband's side of the family, it is also on my side of the family too. It sounds complicated, but really means that 2 brothers married 2 cousins.
Blessings, From Jude
5 comments:
What a lovely legacy!! We have a family book like that too... from my Dad's side. It is fascinating to read and try to imagine what life was like... xx
The book is a treasure. Your own family pictures are wonderful, and the prize one, to me, is the little girl with the snake! Good for her for being fearless about them. They really are nice creatures, the ones without venom, though still wild things. My second favorite is the little boy with the daisy chain. Two adorable children, as are every single one, whatever their activity, all the way down the page, in all ages and sizes. You are blessed!
That’s a great family update. Amazing the amount of research to uncover all those facts & photos. There has been a few skeletons in our ancestry, makes a good read. 👨👩👧👦 👩❤️💋👩 👩👩👧
Interesting & lovely recent photos of family. Thanks for helping me with my problem today too. Take care.
You are certainly blessed with a lovely family and how nice being able to catch up with them at times. Very interesting family history always makes for a good read
Take care, Jean xxx
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