As I sit at my desk looking out the window on this dismal day I am wondering what sort of weather my ancestors were experiencing on this day one hundred years ago.
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| My dismal outlook |
My maternal grandparents, newlyweds
Frank and Ethel Duncan were in
Cobar, NSW. As Frank was a farmer at his property, Elsinore, he would have welcomed this rain as Cobar is regularly drought stricken.
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| 1920 'USEFUL RAIN. WESTERN AREAS BENEFIT.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 2 June, p. 11. , viewed 02 Jun 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15892413 |
My paternal Grandparents,
Thomas and Mary Curry, who lived on the farm Tom managed were parents of two young boys. Tom cared for a property which grew crops and raised sheep on the river flats of the
Belabula River outside
Canowindra.
I wasn't surprised when my searches could find a weather report for Canowindra but was concerned when I couldn't find one for the close larger town of
Cowra. I returned to the article that mentioned Cobar and saw that it listed many country areas so I read through the post and found details for
Cowra. They could not be found because the OCR had read them as and
COWR *. I then took the time to correct the text for all
places in the article that the OCR had incorrectly read.
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1920 'USEFUL RAIN. WESTERN AREAS BENEFIT.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 2 June, p. 11. , viewed 02 Jun 2020, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15892413
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No doubt my four grandparents would have been pleased with the dismal weather facing them.
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