AQC Gen

Today is Australia Day, so here is some information about my Australian ancestress.

Honor Polkinghorne was baptized on 28 December 1806 in Phillack, Cornwall.¹ She married Thomas Tremelling on 24 May 1828 in Phillack.² She was widowed in 1836.³ She was on trial on 30 December 1846 in Penzance, Cornwall.⁴ She was given a seven-year sentence for stealing money.⁵ She was transferred to Millbank Prison in London, England on 22 January 1847.⁴

I was indexing Roman birth records, for a genealogy class, when I found a mother named Maddalena Illuminati. Surnames don't get much better than that.

After last night's Iowa Democratic caucus fiasco, I thought it would be nice to revisit the praise my great-grandfather received for his election reporting by telephone.