Author Archives: dgm

I probably need to get out more, but a few days ago, I ran my surname through querypic, looking to see if there were any reports relating to George or Thomas Moncur. I didn’t turn up anything relating to them … Continue reading →

Came across this little curiousity in the West Gippsland times of 1924: two Chinese herbalists (they probably couldn’t call themselves apothecaries) advertising to the white anglo population in rural Victoria. And of course the obvious question is how much use … Continue reading →

While I was looking for eighteenth century Moncurs I came across George and Thomas Moncur, who were convicted in 1799 at the Perth Court of Justicary in September 1799 and transported to Australia on board the Glatton arriving in 1803. This … Continue reading →

I’ve been doing a little more digging around the whole family history thing, and I reckon that I’m probably correct in my supposition that most of the people with the Moncur surname adopted it due to their association with the … Continue reading →

This is a sort of retraction, but only a partial of retraction. The whole Moncur Castle/Moncur placename thing has been gnawing away at me and I’ve been doing some more digging, and it turns out there was an aristocratic Moncur … Continue reading →

Yesterday I came across an interesting early twentieth century package … interesting because of the way the design was printed over the corner of the package, unlike most other packaging of the time where the individual faces of the box … Continue reading →

While using the Statistical Account to try and find the locations of farms and properties mention in the servant tax records, I came across the following entry about Inchture from the 1799 appendix: which sort of vaguely supports my guess … Continue reading →