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Welcome to Hawkesbury heritage & happenings...
This blog will focus on stories and information about places and people in the Hawkesbury district of NSW, Australia. It will contain local history and family history articles plus a little bit of this and a bit of that compiled by Michelle Nichols.


About me

I have always had an avid interest in history and studied both local and family history, eventually obtaining a MA in History. For over 30 years, I have been involved in promoting history and received an OAM in 2001 for my work in local history.

I regularly contribute articles for publication in various magazines and newsletters and have written a number of local histories including Disastrous Decade: Flood and Fire in Windsor 1864 -1874 (Deerubbin Press, 2001); Hawkesbury Pictorial History (Kingsclear Books, 2004) and co-wrote Hawkesbury 1794-1994 with Jan Barkley Jack in 1994 as well as supplying research for a number of publications, including Hawkesbury Heritage by Stan Stevens.

For many years I have been a professional researcher undertaking both local and family history research on behalf of others. Over the years I have spoken on a variety of topics relating to family and local history, to various groups.

Born and bred in the Hawkesbury I have been researching my own family, many of whom settled in the Hawkesbury, Wollombi and Riverstone districts, for many years. A keen photographer, an enthusiastic researcher, I am currently working on several projects including a biographical study on McGraths Hill Cemetery and a history of the Sackville/Wilberforce/Ebenezer localities. In my spare time I update my various social media pages and assist husband Jonathan Auld with transcribing Hawkesbury cemeteries, church registers, monuments and resources on Hawkesbury on the Net

If you are interested in any of information mentioned in this blog or would like to discuss my services, my contact details are below.

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