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brunyhistory
- Aug 13, 2022
- 2 min
Stafford Bolton Bird- an exceptional record of public usefulness...
'...An exceptional record of public usefulness in religious, social, and political spheres extending over a very long period of years...'...
brunyhistory
- Jun 18, 2022
- 4 min
Sr Veni Cooper - 'I am a certified Metaphysician'
Veni Cooper Mathieson arrived in Tasmania around 1933, where she spent the next 10 years of her life teaching, lecturing and running...
brunyhistory
- Jun 9, 2022
- 2 min
from Tinderbox to Bruny
In 1943 Captain Miley began running the Gayclite between Dennes Point and Snug Jetty. This was soon changed to Tinderbox. Buses met the...
brunyhistory
- Mar 11, 2022
- 2 min
Jane Florence Finn- Bruny Bush Nurse
Jane was born in South Australia, one of seven girls. Her training in nursing varied from Streaky Bay to Port Pirie. She studied...
brunyhistory
- Mar 10, 2022
- 4 min
The First Post Mistress of Bruni
‘Are you interested in a portrait of my Great Grandmother, Marianne Martha Gray’, read the email, ‘it’s rather large!’ I said yes, but it...
brunyhistory
- Apr 24, 2021
- 3 min
25 April
On this day in 1915, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, or ANZACs as they have come to be known, landed upon the shores of the...
brunyhistory
- Nov 29, 2020
- 2 min
Vale: Sr. Mary Mechtilde Dillon
Sr. Mary Mechtilde Dillon died 16th November 2020, at Saint Joseph’s Convent, Newtown, in the 72nd year of her religious profession and...
brunyhistory
- Oct 9, 2020
- 2 min
Death & Taxes
Alonnah was once known as Mills Reef and along the roadside there is a memorial to the Mills family, one of the earliest families to settle