June 2012
2 posts
May 2012
17 posts
Yard Four (south) Cascades Female Factory Historic...
If you are interested to help support Roses from the Heart(r) please consider purchasing a CD. The songs relate to convict women and there are a number of brand new songs and music written specifically for this album. Christina Take Me Home (Fred Rea/Fiona Rea 2010) performed by Fiona Rea and Lateisha Boucher won the People’s Choice, Song of the Year, WAMI AWARDS, in Western Australia in...
April 2012
31 posts
Links to interest in the Parramatta Female Factory...
http://www.parragirls.org.au/convict-connections.php
and
http://www.parragirls.org.au/convict-bonnets.php
Bonnet tribute for convict lass Sarah Ann Rose
Diana from Victoria, Australia has created a special bonnet using grub rose embroidery for convict lass Sarah Ann Rose.
Sarah was transported aboard the Pyramus in 1832.
Thank you to Diana from Christina
Josh McDonald captures image of boat built and...
Serendipity moments with Roses from the Heart(R)
Robyn Murray and her husband recently visited the heritage property - The Old Farm, Strawberry Hill, which was the first farm in Western Australia, created in 1827, shortly before the military settlement of King George Sound (now called Albany) was established. In the 1830s it became the home of Sir Richard Spencer, the third Government Resident.
The farm was the first property acquired by the...
Ninety cloth bonnets from the Roses from the Heart...
Ninety beautifully created cloth bonnets have been loaned by Christina Henri to the Wicklow Gaol in County Wicklow, Ireland as part of the heritage property’s April 2012 Event. The bonnets on loan have been lovingly embellished by Lorna McClelland from County Down, Northern Ireland, and were especially chosen by Christina Henri to be part of the County Wicklow Gaol’s event that...
A descendant of convict woman Ellen Curly visited...
Christina Henri was very pleased to meet up with Sue a descendant of convict woman Ellen Curly at the Cascades Female Factory Historic Site today.
Christina wrote about Ellen Curly in one of her convict women stories in the Hobart Mercury back in June 2008. Sue is an avid reader of Christina’s Convict woman story Column and was overjoyed to find a story on her own ancestor. She would love...
