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Jane Balhannah Hatfield and William George Finn
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Aug 13 min read
Nathaniel Finn - The Camel Driver.
Nat Finn on his camel. He preferred to use a halter rather than the nose ring used by the Afghans (family photograph). Nathaniel (Nat)...
Sep 7, 20224 min read
William T. G. Finn- the blacksmith
William Thomas George Finn was born in Canterbury, England, on 11 September 1847 in Canterbury, Kent, his father, Nathaniel, was 24 and...
Apr 26, 20225 min read
George Finn: a man of sorrow.
Poor George seems to have suffered from melancholia. He followed his brothers Robert and Stephen to Australia. In 1841 he lived with his...
Apr 25, 20222 min read
Family Ties and Tragedies.
Robert Finn is the eldest of Elijah and Elizabeth's children. Born in 1815, he married Sophia Swaine on 25 December 1834. George and his...
Apr 23, 20222 min read
From Crowns to Camels. Chapter One: Nathaniel and Fanny Finn
Kent, the Garden of England, is home to illustrious families like Sir Francis Fane, the Earl of Westmorland. The Earl could trace his...
Feb 4, 20225 min read
The end of Mary's story Chapter 12: A Woman's Work.....
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others." —Pericles In 1861,...
Jan 29, 20224 min read
Chapter 11: The Miner's Wife
The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would constantly be smashed and battered beneath...
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