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They reached Port Adelaide on February 25, 1839, beating the Gooches of Benacre Hall (q.v.) by a little more than a month.

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The children of William and Elizabeth Trumble were (1) my great-grandfather John William Trumble (1863 – 1944) (q.v.), who played Test cricket, though not nearly so famously as his brother Hugh, and later practiced as a country solicitor at Nhill in the Wimmera.

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The rusticizing “cottage” windowframes, and doors, with wrought-iron latches, could not have been more different from, or modern than, the elaborate drawing room at Kilmany Park (q.v.).

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At this date, Granny and Aunt Mim volunteered as nurses at the Rickmansworth Convalescent Home for wounded soldiers (q.v.) (Matron: Miss C.L. Owen), which was located quite nearby.

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J.W. Trumble and his younger brother Hugh (q.v.) were both introduced to cricket by their father, William (q.v.), who was a slow leg-break bowler, and played for South Melbourne in the time of J.S. (“Jack”) Swift, who taught the Trumble boys on a patch of land by the Yarra at Kew.

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Lieutenant Keith A. Borthwick (q.v.) was killed in the first line at the horrific Battle of the Nek at Gallipoli in 1915.

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Seems the X-rays emerging from the Majority (q.v.)

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According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, “necklace” can be dated back to 1590 and comes from “neck (q.v.) + lacein the sense of ‘cord, string.’”

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Yes, technology advances even as empires collapse and standards of living decline (q.v.: the use of water mills, glassblowing, weaving on looms, and soap all expanded dramatically during the reign of Constantine and his sons, when, overall, life for most Roman citizens was getting worse).

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He had slightly earlier inherited the property of Myrecairnie in the Parish of Kilmany in Fifeshire either from his father, William, or more probably his far less incompetent mother Jane (q.v.) (the only daughter of Sir James Campbell of Aberuchill and Kilbride, fourth baronet) but the place, which is quite elevated and exposed to North Sea gales, may not have been much chop.

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