Colourful
I'm back after a holiday break! This week's theme is "colorful" - but let's go with "colourful". The prompt describes "it seems that in every family tree, there's at least one person who is a bit larger than life, someone bold and different..."colourful". I've referred to my most colourful relative in this post is Arthur John Hardwick Jnr, my maternal Great Grandfather. He was born on 18 October, 1888 in Melbourne "near the Union Hotel" Spencer St, Melbourne, which we know from his birth certificate: We are not sure why his parents Arthur John Hardwick Snr and Effie Clara Broome were living in Melbourne at the time, but we think they may have been on the way to visit relatives in South Australia (his sister Effie Maud Hardwick was born in Gawler, South Australia in 1893, but only lived one month). But whatever the reason, he was born in a hotel in Melbourne, and possibly set the tone for much of his life!