Hi Listers, Just a note to let you all know that "The Pidgeon Coop" at www.users.bigpond.com/peter_pidgeon/ has been updated. Revisions include: 1. Restructured layout 2. Latest additions and revisions to the family tree database which contains over 2,500 names 3. New pages (under ongoing construction) dedicated to the emigrants and convicts that left their homes for new lives in Australia. Make sure to check out the following features: - Letter from Ireland to Australia, 22 Feb 1850 which describes everyday life and news to loved ones in Aust. - Elsie Clare Pidgeon, matron of Sydney Hospital who was awarded the Royal Red Cross for services during WW1 and subsequently was also awarded the Florence Nightingale medal, the 4th Australian to be honoured - An extract from Rev. Nathaniel Pidgeon's journal which describes his life in County Wexford, Ireland from his birth in 1803 up to the point of the family's arrival in Sydney in May 1841. - W.E.Pidgeon, 3 times winner of the Archibald Prize for Portraiture and famous illustrator for The Australian Women's Weekly from the 1930's to 1950's. - Letters from WEP to his wife whilst on assignment for the Australian Women's Weekly in the Pacific War Zone during the final stages of WW2. Regards, Peter N Pidgeon Leafy Eltham, Victoria, Australia Please visit our web site at www.users.bigpond.com/peter_pidgeon/ Research Names: http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/community/dps/research/pid01.html