Shine Hourigan Brumley Malone Family History

Welcome to our family history site

This site is dedicated to two women - my mother Frances Mylie Malone Shine and her great grandmother. It was Mum's seemingly innocuous query regarding her great great grandmother Anne Eliza Duffy Harker Hallett was the beginning of this immensely rewarding and often frustrating piece of work. The focus is mostly Duffy line, beginning with Thomas Duffy who was transported from Leixlip in Ireland to Port Jackson, and later applied to have his wife and daughters emigrate to Australia. Collateral lines are included, but I have done only cursory research on persons with a peripheral relationship to the Duffy line. Use the search box at left, or browse the top menu.

Letters to Grandma

[DRAFT]In early 1976 failing health caused Margaret (Maggie) Hourigan to move from her home in Wootong Vale to her daughter's home near Camperdown. Maggie was a prodigious correspondent who always enclosed a stamped, self-addressed envelope to encourage return letters. Grandma’s Letters cover the period from her move to Kildara until her death in 1976. Maggie noted the date each letter was received, and whether (when) replied to. The vast majority of the letters are from her son John who wrote weekly. The collection includes letters from Maggie’s young grandchildren, from her neices and other family members. Correspondence to former neighbours and others give an insight into farming and small town communities in South West Victoria over a few short years.