1 25 9 http://marywadefamily.org/files/original/1501ea20fc927e86add60ae59e414391.pdf bd28efe60ebae323c52c190aaa282779 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mary Wade Family History Association Inc. - about and membership Subject The topic of the resource The MWFHA has been incorporated. See below details of the Committee Members and membership fees. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bob Stevens Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data pdf Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Most people who read this introduction to the story of Mary Wade will have one main interest in common. They will be descendants of Mary Wade, or at least be a close relative of someone who is. They will most likely have heard their own family story of the little girl who was sentenced to death for stealing some clothes. They will be amazed at the severity of her sentence. And if they are thoughtful people, they will be thankful that they live in such an enlightened, egalitarian and lucky country as this home land of ours. But of course Mary wasn't hung, or you wouldn't be reading about her here today. Instead she was transported to New South Wales in a shipload of women. Thankfully she lived to become our many times great Great Grandmother. Without her, none of us would be here! She alone is that common ancestor to the tens of thousands of us who are now her direct descendants. Think of this! None of us would even exist if Mary had been hung as an 13-year-old child. While our family story does have Captains and Kings and exploration adventures, for Mary, her major achievement was to merely survive and bear children to populate a harsh land of often-brutish men. Convicts, soldiers and marines were equally intent on survival. Their task was to subdue a wilderness and build a new convict settlement so that England could rid itself of its displaced poor and felons. Mary's is a story that helps explain the character of the people who now make up this great land of Australia. It was this same ability of our ancestors to survive against great odds; in places like Gallipoli, Tobruk, and Kokoda, that are today celebrated as part of the Australian character. Mary Wade's story is your story. Read, wonder and be thankful for the perseverance that enabled our ancestors to create for us such a land of opportunity. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Mary Wade Family History Association - Members of the original committee of the 1980s Subject The topic of the resource Mary Wade Family History Association Description An account of the resource Four of the original committee members: Shirley Webb and Linda Webb (back) Keith and Judy Amos (front) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 18 September 2010 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Stevens, Bob Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright to contributor Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpg http://marywadefamily.org/files/original/f4a24f0f24428eaefa596a227628aa65.pdf c0e52f44a5657715635db03d736c068e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Mary Wade memorial plaque - photographs and documents Subject The topic of the resource Mary Wade - memorial plaque Tarrawanna Description An account of the resource Photographs of the Mary Wade plaque before mounting, the dedication ceremony and the current condition of the plaque Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Harrigan, Doug (letter, photograph) Caldwell, Vivienne (plaque and ceremony) Peacock, Karen Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Amos, Keith Caldwell, Vivienne Peacock, Karen Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpg http://marywadefamily.org/files/original/0f55bf1799d78922f3510e15977cd46a.pdf c1b46eec7e0ce7930c0018e31038f85f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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My family line to Mary Wade comes from my mother, Rita Florence Hurst, who grew up in North Wagga as part of the Brooker/Angel/Hurst diaspora to the Riverina. Her father, Robert John Hurst, was a wheat breeder who worked with William Farrar in developing the 'Federation' strain of wheat that enabled the wheat industry to survive the harmful 'rust' that ruined many early Australian wheat crops. I grew up in the beach town of Port Macquarie and for many years travelled Australia and the world.  For most of my life I had little interest in my family heritage, even though it was well known to other family members. It was only when I saw the television documentary, 'The Floating Brothel', that I realised how lucky I was to be here at all. I was a descendant of an 11 year old girl who had survived being sentenced to death! I was fortunate, in that one of my brothers had a spare copy of the publication 'Mary Wade to Us'. After quickly reading it, I felt that all of Mary's descendants should have their own copy. Unfortunately the book was out of date, out of print and no longer available. I had recently sold our family business and retired, but my working experience included many years of database marketing. I knew about computers and the Internet and about email communication. I decided to see if I could put a revised version of the book onto the Internet so that it would be up to date and available to everyone. Like most things, that was easier said than done. First I approached the surviving members of the Committee who put the book together. Marjorie Morrow, their leader, had died in 2004, aged 93. Only Keith and Judy Amos and Shirley Webb were still alive, but they pleaded age and lack of computer savvy to take any further part in what had been a huge research and publication enterprise. They did encourage me though, and gave me all the left over material they had from the original research 20 years prior. Where to start? I put an RSVP notice in the Sydney Morning Herald and that led to a few contacts and an enquiry from the St. George and Sutherland Leader. The Leader came and took a picture of me, holding a copy of 'Mary Wade to Us'. They published the picture and an article on what I was trying to do. That led to more contacts. I set up a Mary Wade Family Tree on Genes Reunited and found other family members with matching names in their trees. I established a Facebook Group called the Mary Wade Family Association and people joined up. I trawled the Internet and came across Sue Perry in London who had her own family tree on the web and she was willing to help set up a website. I now had over a hundred email contacts and tried to interest them in forming an Association which would take responsibility for the website. Most were interested but few wanted to accept any responsibility. Just on two years ago I found I had a life threatening form of bone cancer in my hip. After a couple of months of unhelpful chemotherapy, my Surgeon decided to operate.  They took the bones out from my pelvis, radiated them in a radiation ward across the road, mended the hole where the 75mm tumour had been, and then put them back in my pelvis with a replacement hip. I spent 8 weeks in RPA Hospital and a further three weeks in a Rehab. Hospital.  Since then I have had months of rehab. physiotherapy and a second operation for another tumour in my sacrum.  Before the second tumour I was walking with a walking stick but I am now restricted to getting about on crutches. I am now back at work most days, working on our Mary Wade website. Sue Perry put the first edition of our website up using the material we had and did a great job. Toby Griffin then came on board and he was responsible for setting up the Family Tree. A number of us have been inputting data from 'Mary Wade to Us' and other sources and we now have well in excess of 2000 names entered. Toby revamped the layout of the site and I am now busy putting more material into it. We still don't have an Incorporated Association that will guarantee us any continuity, if something should happen to me. About twenty people have volunteered financial assistance but that is not nearly enough to keep an Incorporated Association going into even the forseeable future. I would like to see a groundswell of interest among Mary Wade descendants that would keep us going indefinitely. I would estimate that there should be more than tens of thousands of us alive today. Tell your kids and siblings and nieces and nephews about it and get them to have a look at this site and take an interest in it. I would like to suggest that we consider another Family Muster. So far as I am aware, our last Muster was in 1984 at Campbelltown. Surely it must be time for another one. After all, it is not often that a Prime Minister is a descendant of Mary Wade like the rest of us.  I would like to see us issuing Certificates to Family Members showing membership of an Association of people descended directly from Mary's blood.  I would like to see badges for 11 year old kids showing they are Survivors; and for teenagers showing they are Pioneers; and for new families, a Certificate showing that they have begun a New Generation. The above are just a few of my own ideas for our potential Incorporated Association but at the moment I feel like a one man band. I am seventy two years of age and of only middling health. I am looking for a new generation to take up the leadership of this fledgling organisation and make it into something we can all be proud to be members of. Jeff Robinson, Convenor Mary Wade Family History Association Footnote: It is very sad to note that Jeff Robinson passed away on 7 June 2010 after a long fight with cancer. Jeff's energy and enthusiasm will be greatly missed. There is a small group of us who are committed to realising Jeff's dream by ensuring the continuation of the Mary Wade Family History Association. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robinson, Jeff. The renewed Mary Wade Family History Association Description An account of the resource Jeff Robinson describes his interest in Mary Wade, and how he brought together a renewed Mary Wade Family History Association to continue the work of bringing together descendants of Mary. 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Title A name given to the resource Voting procedures for MWFHA AGM Description An account of the resource Procedures for the implementation of Sections 15 and 16 of the MWFHA Constitution Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dennis O'Brien, Peter Benson, Anita Crotty Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 21 July 2024