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Welcome to my blog. My name is Sue Ruffle and a chance conversation with my cousin, Elizabeth Overton, who was visiting from South Africa in August 2013, set off an amazing sequence of events…
A 200 Year Celebration! 18 August, 1820 – 18 August, 2020
200 years ago today, my 3rd great-grandfather Captain Joseph Moore, his heavily pregnant wife Ann and their two young sons sailed into Sydney aboard the 237 ton Barque Woodlark, to begin a new life in the Colony of New South Wales. How excited and yet apprehensive they must have been, not knowing what to expect…
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I would love to make contact with other ancestors of Captain Joseph Moore. If this interests you, please get in touch.