The Way We Were 13.05.2015

May 13 2015 - 2:00am

1893 Elizabeth (nee Sach) and Thomas Hogan with their family at their farm at Sandhill Lake near kerang. This photo includes five of their eight children; Will, Susie, Frank, Jim and Jack.Three children born later included Katherine who became Sister Norbeta, teaching English long term at St Mary's College, Bendigo. Elizabeth, the daughter of a German miner, lived in Eaglehawk. At the age of 14 she taught in a tent school in Pegleg Road. Elizabeth and Thomas Hogan are the grandparents of locals Nell McDougall, Alice Geary and Therese Costelloe and great-grandparents to Noelene Scales and Wilma McIntyre. 

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