Our Family's History

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  • A Tale of Two Richards

    Richard Watson is my great great grandfather. And he is a mystery.  On 4 Nov 1844, he married Eliza Welham at St Andrews Presbyterian Church of Scotland in Sydney. The ceremony by performed by Rev John McGarvie and the witnesses were Alexander Douglass and Sarah Lindon. About three months earlier, Eliza had…

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  • Our Bounty Immigrants

    Our Bounty Immigrants

    During the 1800s Britain suffered a post war depression, a terrible famine and massive unemployment, caused by industrialisation and changing farm practices. Many thousands of…

  • David Goodwin Watson

    David Goodwin Watson

    David Goodwin Watson was my Great Grandfather. He was a blacksmith, who for many years, worked in the goldfields. He told his sons “Find a…

  • Bill Hamilton

    Bill Hamilton

    I’m going to start with someone that most of us never met, my maternal great grandfather. Growing up, we heard a lot from Mum about…

  • Who am I?

    Who am I?

    This is the question that got me started? But it wasn’t a question I consciously asked. It was more something that had been bubbling in…

● About Me

For years now, more than 4 decades in fact, I have been gathering information about our family. There’s so much information it is completely overwhelming and, although I share bits and pieces with you from time to time, most of it goes un-noticed and un-loved.

I wanted to find a way to make sharing what I know easier. Easier for me, and easier for you. I wanted to find a format that makes it easy for you to dip into the treasured stories and find out about who you are and how you came to be.

You are the sum total of everyone who went before you. Doesn’t that make you curious about who they were?

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