Everywhere I go,
People want to know,
Who we are,
Where we come from......
Family History
Where We Come From
Ian’s Family Tree
The Tree
Choose anyone to read about them.
Parents
Grandparents
Great-Grandparents
1807–1842
George Ennever (Alias: Morris)
Forger, convict, innkeeper
Forged banknotes, a brother hanged at Ilchester, the convict ship Morley and the Australian Hotel.
1836–1848
William Griggs
From Cambridgeshire Shepherd to Australian Settler
Two sheep, two lambs, transportation for life, and a conditional pardon.
1842
The First McLaughlins
The first McLaughlins in my line to arrive in Australia
Philip, Bridget and six children arrive in Melbourne on the Robert Benn.
1849
The Barque Aden
From South Australian Register, Wednesday 10 October 1849, page 2
The passengers’ letter about Captain Baker and the voyage that brought George Eckley to Adelaide.
1850s–1860s
John and Sybella
A few stories from the wild days of the gold rush in Adelong
The Miner’s Rest, Dan Morgan in the hills, and a lost child at Middle Adelong.
1874
The Flogging Man
Carl Wilhelm Rudolf Meyer
A Danish immigrant teacher, complaints from parents at Nelligen, and his reply.
1920s
Beryl’s Reminiscences
Notes from conversations with my mother, well into her nineties
Childhood memories of the Carters and Meyers, trips to Randwick, and two favourite poems.
1956
The Origin of Ian
“Ian, Ian, where did you come from?”
Broken Hill, a girls’ hostel in Bowral, Strathmore Private Hospital and a cupboard.