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robyne melia is bobby la robyne melia is bobby la here is for chat about all things stitching is a place to link to my various other sites and somewhere to show and tell and never shut up saturday february 07 2026 akira isogawa knitting basket posted by bobby la at 8 04 am no comments labels bowls boxes crochet knitting thursday january 04 2024 bobby la s hand dyed yarns launch i have just put up the first of my australian merino hand dyed and natural yarn on etsy via bio the labels aren t quite printed yet ink is still wet on the garden drawing which has nothing to do with wool but everything to do with home this is a gorgeous soft strong lightly lofted 17 micron 1 13nm 100g 1 300m merino that takes colour beautifully colours will build and you can order any amount but this is for my fun on top of a job and a wild idea to write a book of my own designs 2 years in and well on the way i just love this wool so much and want to share it in either it s natural state or colours that i love true story note elizabethwilliamsonknitting s daskelberryshawl knit by sk2pgrant and dyed by myself so grateful bobbylashanddyes handdyedyarn cobwebwool finelaceknitting shetlandlace knittersgonnaknit shetlandknitting australianmerino beautifulhanddyedyarn cottageindustryaustralia robynemeliaisbobbyla illustrationartists inkdrawing topiarygarden topiarybirds posted by bobby la at 7 43 pm no comments friday september 22 2023 the widow s lament i m looking at the dent on the couch where you used to sit it s still there i m thinking of the dumb arse crap i can watch without your eyes rolllling without some groaning without even watching i m busy i don t care without you now you ve gone i might end up watching the wrong shows all of the time i miss you posted by bobby la at 1 18 pm no comments friday july 28 2023 alexander kenneth tolmie mckenzie jane jennie ross his wife thought to be a tall red head alexander mckenzie born 5 dec 1842 in fodderty to kenneth mckenzie and ann annie tolmie jane ross born 30 dec 1842 in ardgay kincardine to donald callum ross and ann annie murray the gorgeous book the chronicles of the ardchronie children parish of kincardine has a beautiful account of jane jennie s parents donald callum and annie s wedding and then jane s birth both below note that maggie the author is jane s younger sister more about donald later alexander jane married 28 nov 1864 in dundee he was a mason and she a domestic servant it s the first time just now that i noticed they were at the same address and that it s a fair way from home 3hrs drive today i suppose that s where they met the very next i hear from them is via the birth of their son named alexander of course born in shellback creek thames new zealand in 1869 our alick by now a miner you will no doubt be aware of the gold rush going on in nz and australia in 1872 my great grandmother elizabeth bessie no one was allowed to call her anything but bessie mckenzie was born in thames new zealand north island alick was by now a contractor the family moved to the dunedin area on the south island though i m not sure when or what was happening there is the deborah bay tunnel contract in 1874 and jane much later lived at palmerston nearby i assume the family were around dunedin for much of the time while alexander travelled for work the contracts include alick s brothers daniel and john daniel did aged 51 in 1890 i had not known of daniel as he was not present for the 1851 census however family contacted me to inform me of annie nee tolmie of the wedding story going to nz and sent this gravestone picture below a daniel mckenzie is found at another property in tain as a stable boy aged 14 and i imagine it was not a terribly common name and explains the gap port chalmers new zealand on 5 dec 1878 in greymouth alexander was struck and killed by a lodger when felling a tree see article below alexander was part of the freemasons in thames his name is found in their archives and below the obituaries speak of his character there are mistakes for example i have no evidence of the couple ever going to nova scotia though i have no travel records at all so they may have popped over alick s brothers john and daniel mckenzie were over in nz too daniel shows up at a nearby place in the census in scotland and i had not otherwise known of him until finding some distant family who confirmed via ann tolmie s death after their father kenneth mckenzie died in scotland annie followed them down to dunedin nz i had imagined alexanders life in nz to be a lonely one dying away from his wife and children however i have found evidence that his brother daniel had worked nearby not long before his death with their mother annie around jane the children her brother in laws and their families nearby it will have been quite a family john daniel and alexander had the contract for the deborah bay tunnel a railroad tunnel that i think exists today as a walking track jane s father donald ross was a road contractor back in kincardine where he lived his whole life as far as i can see he is buried with ann and their son john at kincardine cemetery below 5th december 1842 birth of alexander mckenzie to kenneth and anne nee tolmie jane ross daughter of donald ross ardchronie and ann murray b 30 dec 1843 baptised 12 jan 1844 the wedding of donald callum ross and anne murray jane s parents and alexander s in laws beginning my father which is donald callum ross my g g g grandfather near the bottom when the author states now for our family there is mention of jennie being in nz this was such a moving passage to read and i am amazed to find such detail nice stories too the wedding certificate of alexander and jennie jane in new zealand in 1869 and 1872 alexander and elizabeth were born father miner the district they were born in was a huge gold rush area elizabeth died before i was born but was quite a character i ll do a separate article on her later bessie s original birth certificate bessie joined the salvation army in auckland and came to melbourne australia to study where she met and married george armstrong and had five children hazel laurel hilda george known as keith my gramps and ian alister alec just a brag hilda and laurel won a competition in 1923 choosing the name vegemite for a new vegetable extract you may have heard of yum whilst i do have two of the contracts involving the deborah bay tunnel they are too long and a bit boring to add here i did find this snippet from 1874 and imagine it to be my great great grandfather though i know nothing more on the subject and then sadly we go to his death this was very difficult to find as the name is so common and nz bmd doesn t have parents names in their search engine however i was contacted by someone who was related to jenni s second husband the name change being the reason i could not find her death certificate nor any trace of her that wedding certificate whilst having alexander wrongly named charles added up in every other way and gave the date of this her first husband s death some 11 years previous from that i was able to narrow down my search and find my grandfather s death certificate and then found a few newspaper articles i have not found any nova scotia connection though as mentioned i have no travel documents at all he certainly was born in scotland the children were 6 9 years old young alexander became a fisherman like his own father in law i have yet to find any current descendants he had 2 daughters and a son alexander of course to emma ajen his wife one girl annie emma and violet jane annie died aged 14 jennie and john shearer ritchie s wedding note jane s parents they had no children she was 45 below is the tombstone of jane s parents and brother at kincardine scotland donald ross the road contractor my father spoke of as having either been in nz or being somehow connected to alexander his son in law become a rail tunnel builder i have no information about any link between their work and it s clear that donald lived and died in scotland though 10 years between census allows for some movement jane jennie ritchie s death again as is common with death certificates where the recording of information about the deceased is by those around them some details are incorrect below is jennie s parent s gravestone at kincardine scotland in loving memory of donald ross died 14th aug 1909 aged 94 years and of his wife annie murray died 24th april 1910 aged 85 years also their son john ross died at ardcronie 8th march 1929 aged 83 years posted by bobby la at 10 46 pm 2 comments labels alexander mckenzie ann tolmie donald ross genealogy jane ross older posts home subscribe to comments atom about me bobby la victoria australia i m a reasonable human being i think friendly type you know happy in myself clever and a little bit stupid too depends where you look hope i got it round the right way and it s not i m quite stupid and a little bit clever that d be awful i like the other 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