Who was Aunt Polly? Is the Mystery solved ? Updated Feb 24
Discovering my grandmother's name
After many months and months of piecing together bits and
working out a lady only known as "Aunty Polly" as my father's Joseph
Wright had known her. From the photos Raine had put on Ancestry. Also
after slowly unraveling the intricate threads of my family
history finding out my father had also been Adopted way back in 1928 in
Victoria by Les & Ann Wright ( Raine is their grand daughter) and this was
a year before the Adoption Act had come in Victoria, so records and
information was hit and miss, even the way adoptions were carried out in some
cases was more of a anything goes.
So Aunty Polly is Ida Mary
Pulz, Ida was born in 1905 and I found out she lived to the ripe old age of 97
passing in 2001. She had also got married later in life and had a
daughter. This is another one of the many other things I'm working on now. But
more on that later. Also Ida and her Sister in law were the Licensee's of a
Wine Bar Saloon in Fish Creek in Gippsland Victoria. Back in the mid 1940s
So how was the
mystery of Aunt Polly solved ?
Well Raine had found an
original photo taken back in 1950 in a Pall Mall cigarette tin, the photo had
been wrapped in an envelope the names of the people written on the back.
Had the photo been wrapped
in an envelope and put away in that tin to be found over 70 years later ?
I guess we will never know, but I'm really thankful it was.
Once I had Ida's name
I could research back through my DNA on Ancestry and all family trees for Ida
and try and confirm a DNA link to someone related on Ida's side of the family.
I had already narrowed possible match's although none were a close match. So as
luck would have it I found a family tree with Ida in it. And the owner of the
family tree was a DNA match to me. Bingo! here was my link it was ever so small
at 22cM But it was my link.
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So in this journey which I
started just as a dream over 50 years ago. I have located and met my Birth
Mother, Brother , 2 sisters , so many Aunts, Uncles Cousins, located and
visited memorials of grandparents great grandparents and found my links back to
the first fleet, convicts, soldiers, early pioneers and many interesting
characters and that's just been on my Mother's side.
To more recently turning my
attention to my Father's side, even though I've had his name for almost 30
years it only been DNA which has unlocked all the mysteries on his side.
It was unfortunate he had
long passed but I have visited this burial location and memorial, through DNA
have identified his father and now mother met my father's half sister my Aunt
Betty which was wonderful. Betty didn't know at the time of my research she had
a half brother, DNA test confirmed it. To meeting my cousin Daryl and his
wife Lyn, Daryl has his own amazing story of how he fits into the family, he
and Lyn were the upmost help in helping me on my father's side of the search.
To Raine and her hunch that
Joseph Wright my father had much more to his story and had put a unbelievable
amount of photos and information on Ancestry. Which was an absolute treasure
trove of history and photos.
The Journey continues
Fish Creek Victoria, and Ida (added Feb 2024)
Ida and Mary Farrell buy an Wine Bar Saloon and accomodation in Fish Creek Victoria 1946. Mary Farrell goes on to become Idas sister in-law after Ida marries Arthur Farrell .
Fish Creek Wine Saloon
Harry Jones originally estabished the Wine saloon
Present Day Fish Creek Location
Ida and Mary sell the Wine Saloon in 1951
The Journey continues
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