Category Archives: Muir – Buirchell

Stories and research articles from Muir-Buirchell line

2024 – Year in Review

Posted on 25 December 2024 by njsresearch6

Setting out to write this blog post Sunday, I thought I would check out Facebook first; my following has been less than avid for some time, and I came across a post about the arrival of a new boy in … Continue reading →

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Published!

Posted on 7 March 2022 by njsresearch6

Soul Search might be a tiny journal with a small readership. Still, its publication of a reworking of my Blog article Thomas Solly – Explorer, Mounted Policeman and Publican (29 November 2012) marks my international publishing debut!

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Those Who Served in World War I: From the Muir-Buirchell Family Tree (Part I)

Posted on 18 January 2015 by njsresearch6

I decided long ago to publish in 2015 what I have discovered about the World War I veterans in my family trees.  Slowly I have worked towards this objective over the past couple of years and now suddenly time is … Continue reading →

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Memories of an Accident

Posted on 29 June 2014 by njsresearch6

In recent times the National Library of Australia has digitised and made available through its Trove project the newspaper The Great Southern Herald.  This newspaper was, and still is today, published in Katanning just 26 miles from my home town … Continue reading →

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The “Aha” Moment in Family Research – Solly and Flavel in my Muir-Buirchell Tree

Posted on 2 April 2013 by njsresearch6

The little I knew about my South Australian forebears was that my great grandmother was “… a Solly raised as a Flavel.”  Over recent years, I have been reasonably successful in documenting the Solly Family dating from the 1840 arrival … Continue reading →

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Thomas Solly – Explorer, Mounted policeman and Publican

Posted on 29 November 2012 by njsresearch6

November is almost over and the World War I Blog publication I have been working on – A Horse named ‘Kojonup’ … – is not yet complete. The following tale comes from my Muir-Buirchell Family Tree and is actually an … Continue reading →

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