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Ep 3: Paula and Fay on Ballaarat

Ep 3: Paula and Fay on Ballaarat

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 Music, war and broken families both feature in Paula and Fay's family histories but the thing that connects them most of all is a town. Ballarat. In this episode Sophie speaks with family historian Paula Herlihy, whose grandfather was adopted when her great grandfather left her great grandmother with a large family to raise. We discuss an oral history recording with Fay Anderson whose grandfather was a prominent Ballarat herbalist, F.S. Goon, who later settled in Hong Kong. In this episode Sophie speaks with family historian Terry Young, whose grandfather was a market gardeners and father a worked at the Queen Victoria Markets. We discuss an oral history recording with Alex Woon whose father, Alexander Ah Woon, worked in the Queen Victoria Markets.
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