Tag: McLaughlan

  • 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 trade that everyone needs and you will always do well”. He was a hard man to find because he was constantly on the move, changing jobs, changing homes, quixotic and…

  • 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 the back of my mind for years. One day, for what reason I no longer recall, I sent off to the Registrar’s office for the marriage certificates of my grandparents…