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Links to interesting pages, including all convict ancestors
Thomas Rowley - organiser of the Rum Corp - prominent early colonist - brought merino sheep to Sydney in 1793                    4Xgreat grandfather Les
Elizabeth Selwyn - convict - horrific journey to Sydney - had 5 children with Thomas Rowley                                                       4Xgreat grandmother Les
Thomas Clarkson - convict - forger - major entrepreneur in the colony                                                                                          4Xgreat grandfather Les
Reg Rowley - Lancaster pilot killed in the war - his photo albums and letters paint a good picture of the time                              uncle Les
Joseph Smart and Jane Hawkins  - both convicts - Joseph was a pillar of Beechworth society - Jane died young                       2Xgreat grandparents  Les
Emma Briant - had nine children and a bakery in Ballarat during the Gold Rush. We have 20 of her letters home                       2Xgreat grandmother Merrill
Thomas Smalley - had a family of 14 children then, widowed, married his childhood sweetheart                                                  great grandfather Merrill
Annie Farr - booted out of Baptist church for wanting to be a singer. Interesting letter to Francis on applying to marry her          great aunt Merrill  
Charles Henry Martin - interesting descrition of first school - organised building of the Dawson St chapel in Ballarat 1864          2xgreat uncle Merrill
Hannah Anderson - a tale of hardship in the diggings - Charles Henry Martin was her third husband                                           2xgreat aunt Merrill
Winifred Farr - brought up her family on her own in the thirties after being widowed - a very capable lady                                   grandmother Merrill
Norman and the John Thompsons - a family background of the building trade                                                                              grandfather Merrill
William Burton Mitchell - miner who brought the Mitchell family to Australia                                                                                  2xgreat grandfather Les
William Mitchell - died of diabetes aged 39. we have 5 diaries, the last recording his unsuccessful attempts to treat diabetes    great grandfather Les
Ellen Cubitt - left with young family when William died                                                                                                                   great grandmother Les
William Patterson - was, in order, schoolmaster, bankrupt, arsonist, horse stealer, convict, schoolmaster                                   3xgreat grandfather Les
William Davis and Mary Geer - both convicts, married in Australia                                                                                                4xgreat grandparents Les
James Cubit - convict - from Ireland, transported to Tasmania, wife Elizabeth joins him 16 years later                                         3xgreat grandfather Les
George Onslow - convict - married and assigned to 16 year old. later married and assigned to Eliza Davis                                 3xgreat grandfather Les
Charles The Giant Chilcott - gentleman farmer, 193 cm tall, weighed 290 kilos, lived to age 73, quite old in those days              5xgreat grandfather Les
Christopher Chilcott - Vicar in Tintagel, site of the legendary King Arthur's Court                                                                          7xgreat grandfather Les
Anne Broome (nee Patterson) - alleged to have introduced Patterson's Curse to north east Victoria                                           great grandmother Les 
Charles Chilcott - Early Tasmanian settler - Aided his brother to commit bigamy                                                                           2xgreat grandfather Les    
Harriet Smalley - born 1839, she led what looks like a very modern life                                                                                         2xgreat aunt Merrill                                                                                 
William Julian - we meet an Online Parish Clerk and a man with four wives                                                                                  great grandfather Merrill  
Grace Fudge -  Barstardy Bond. Thames freezes over. When offered his prison release wife seems to have said no thanks      4xgreat grandmother Les    

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