Day 2 Visit to Woolooware

Fairy was visiting her distant cousin David to share some books on Family History. David is writing a book on Lancelot IREDALE. Lancelot is Heath's 4 times Great Grand Father. So it was good to take Flat Stanley along to meet David and see how the book is coming along.

Lancelot set up one of the first companies in the colony of NSW in 1820 called IREDALE & Company. The shop was known as an Ironmongers, and was something like a hardware shop crossed with a department store.

Later during the early gold rush times, when the colony was short of coins, businesses like IREDALE's made their own pennies and halfpennies, so that their customers could keep buying the things they needed. Such tokens can be seen in the Museum of Victoria's online collection. Fairy has a number of these too and has promised to get them out for Flat Stanley to show him later in the visit.

If you are curious to see what Lancelot looked like, you can see a painting of Lancelot from 1830 at the NSW State Library.

Fairy's mother has a pen and ink drawing of him also, which can be seen on this site about early Australian Blacksmiths.

David showed Flat Stanley another family history book started in 1947. It is about another branch of David's family.

Flat Stanley liked pen and ink drawings of the maps showing Australia and New Zealand and hearing the stories of some of the other IREDALE family members who live in these countries.

A good thing to be doing on such a very wet day.