Margaret was born at Cobram Hospital in 1943 and grew up on a wheat and sheep farm with her family in Yarroweyah.
She retired in 2008 and began volunteering at the Royal Historical Society, researching local history.
Margaret’s previous book Gum trees, lagoons and flat plains: a history of Yarroweyah, Koonoomoo and Yarroweyah North 1878 to 1962, was published in 2011 and documents names, dates, events and people from the European settlement.
“The exercise renewed friendships with the local community and added extensively to my historical knowledge,” she said.
Margaret has produced two booklets on WWI and WWII soldiers from Yarroweyah, Koonoomoo, Bearii and Ulupna to accompany the War Memorials erected at Bearii in 2023 and Yarroweyah in 2025.
She has also written six family history books about her eight great-grandparents, their country of origin, their settlement in Victoria and their descendants.
“Now is the time to write a similar book for Strathmerton and Ulupna,” she said.
Margaret said many booklets and projects of the area have been collated over the years, giving a basis for her research.
“Using these, government records, maps and family histories, I will present a chronological development of the area as well as featuring all the families who have settled here up to about 1970,” she said.
Margaret is looking for family tree’s, names of the first pioneers, families still living in the area and photos.
If you would like your family to be included in the book, you can email Margaret at mmoxhamfleming3@bigpond.com.
Alternatively, you can take photos and notes to Rachel McKay at the Cobram BP Service Station.
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