About Me

Airlie Marion Inglis

This is the story of me.....................the story of my ancestors and the story of my children and grandchildren. This is a family record that was begun many centuries ago and with luck will continue for many more centuries to come.

Born in Orange NSW, my parents, Colin Moore and Edna Phyllis Inglis had a small orchard which produced apples, cherries and pears. In 1956 the orchard was sold and we moved to, Lindfield (a Sydney suburb), where I lived until my marriage in 1968. My education in Sydney was firstly at Lindfield Public School, then Wenona, North Sydney - a girls private school.

On completion of the Intermediate Certificate I left school at 15 years of age and enrolled at Hales Business College in the city where I completed a diploma course in secretarial studies. Over the years I held many positions in a variety of industries but always in the field of administration.

My eldest daughter Kaleena was born in 1969, followed in 1972 by my next daughter Nicole and then in 1977 Christopher was born.

My hobbies are - my computer, genealogy, music, reading and travel. The computer I use for 'surfing' and communications, and genealogy is something I do in fits and starts. I enjoy downloading music from the net along with restoring old vinyl records and re-recording them to CD. Reading is something I do to relax and whilst I sometimes read one of the classics I mainly prefer to read paperback novels, be they romances, murder, mystery or espionage. I am NOT into sci-fi. 

Travel is something I try to do at least once a year with my ultimate aim being to visit every continent in the world - I have Africa and Antarctica to get to yet to achieve this dream!!!!

Hopefully this family tree and all its information will in some way provide my descendants with the knowledge of their being.

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Above - me today

Above - me aged 3 years

In 1640, the reign of Charles I was ready to collapse. The Committee of Three Estates had drawn and signed the National Covenant, and commissioned the Earl of Argyll to take up arms against nobles known to oppose the Covenant. The Earl of Airlie, one of Charles' devoted supporters, retired to England to avoid being coerced into acknowledging the Covenant, and left his estates in the keeping of his eldest son, Lord Ogilvie. Upon learning that Argyll was marching against him with several thousand men, Ogilvie abandoned his father's lands. The Airlie estate and tower (which had stood nearly two hundred years) was burned to the ground.