Digging up family dirts and treasures.

Unfortuantly the small journey has come to an end. But the tree hasn't fallen and the tree is to sprouting although some branches are subtle in the forgetful mist. My school project has reached completion, but my mysterios ancestors will puzzel me till I myself reach the cold stone grave.

A complete branch of it's own, minds of an artist

As I say the use of a paintbrush or a pencil is and is run through my blood. AS several of my family members have that mind of artist, such as Jack Yeats, William's Butler Yeats's brother. Jack grew up in Dublin Ireland and came to be in 1871 then went to the grave in 1957 at the age eighty six. He also produced the first comic strip of Sherlock Holmes as one of his early works. he began to be an Expressionist Artist in about 1920. Although his body is perished in the intensity underneath the stone grave. His works are definitely not forgotten.

Branch and bayonet, Lost in war

My Great grandfather Lieutenant Ronald Simpson, a hero in the war yet just another branch on the tree. he served in the British royal navy during 2192 horrible relentless days of world war two, from a Sailor boy to a Senior officer. Ronald sailed in five ships yet only one made it through world war two as for the other four, they forever roam the mysterious sea along with the unlucky crewman. Ronald received five medals during and shortly after the war. from a Sailor man to electrical engineer then later dieing in 1993, his and many other soldier's/sailor's idea lives on.

Adelaide, 1800, Royal Navy, Branches of the boat in a sea mystery

Several members of my family have been involved in the British Royal navy from Galleons to ELCO PTs. But one family member (as his name is to yet to be found, his character is defiantly not lost). He sailed Tasmania on sea and land setting roads in Adelaide, as being one the first of my family members in Australia. He helped develop Adelaide as well as the rest the crew. A small park is named after superiority in the development of Adelaide. ( I am still finding his name through my family book, the heirloom ages from 18th and 19th century - and so on).

A famous character. A singing branch

Well,I got some info from my great auntie in England, I am related to the Irish poet William butler Yeats. As being born in 1865 and a member of a very creative family his father was a painter and so was his brother Jack. But most of all a winner of the Noble prize for outstanding writing and one of the 20th centuries greatest writer. As I am speaking on Ascension day, not 40 days but over 40 years since he died in 1939. But his writing still remains. Such as
Cast a cold Eye
On Life, on Death.
Horseman, pass by.


concluding the final verse in Under Ben Bulben ( one of his last poems).

High in the sky, behind the desk or behind a rifle in the middle of India. An Alpine forest

Wilfred Noyce, a great uncle. Being born in 1917 and plummeted to his death in 1962 4000 ft, above the clouds in Mt Garmo with 23 year old Robin Smith. Wilfred was the eldest son of Sir Frank Noyce. Wilfred was head of the school at Charterhouse and a scholar of King's college, Cambridge, as well as becoming one of Briton's most finest mountaineers under the age of of 20, he also wrote two Welsh mountaineering handbooks. In 1935 at the age thirteen ( already an excellent climber) while climbing Scafell Wilfred was taking a fall at 180 ft a another mountaineer J Edwards saved him with his rope. Wilfred's war service was spent in a ambulance unit, in the Welsh Guards and the king's royal rifle unit in India. He also participated in the climbing of Mt Everest along side with the rest of the crew and his Sherpa Annullu. Wilfred wrote a collection of books such as "The gods are angry" and "South Col".

A painted war, A forming trunk

Guess what?, more war, but not like you've ever imagined painted war, a fight that made him pick up a brush and start creating. My Gt grandfather Ronald Simpson had a brother named Jack Churchill Simpson he also fought in the war. Jack served at Al'amein and Tobruk, North Africa, but in fact he was actually an architect and an artist ( I have one of his paintings).

Blood and branches

World war two played a big part in both my families my mother's and my father's. My Gt grandfather Douglas become a prisoner of war and only after the war he was released. And my Gt grandparents moved from Switzerland to South Africa in 1933 because of the economic crisis. And last but not least my Gt grandfather Ronald served in five ships as a senior officer.

Planting a tree

Well, I know a little about my family, my parents, my grandparents and great grandparents..... but not enough and that's what I want to find out. I have some interesting family members like great uncle Wilfred ( but didn't climb to the top) who climbed Mount Everest with Edmund Hilary in 1953 and wrote about it, but if I look closer he's just a name on a book to me. And also my great grandfather Doug fought to the death in world war two and was a prisnor of war (POW) but to me just a name on a dogtag.