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George Sheader
Nana Watson was born Kathleen Ashdown, the daughter of James Ashdown, so it comes as a bit of a surprise to learn that her paternal grandfather was James Sheader and his father was George Sheader. It took a long time to work through the maze of conflicting information about this strange family, but I think…
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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 people were desperate enough to take free or subsidised one-way passages to the end of the earth. The American War of Independence had ended in 1783 but the cost to…
Our Family's History 