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brunyhistory
- Mar 10
- 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
- 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 8, 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