Nat Finn on his camel. He preferred to use a halter rather than the nose ring used by the Afghans (family photograph). Nathaniel (Nat)...

William Thomas George Finn was born in Canterbury, England, on 11 September 1847 in Canterbury, Kent, his father, Nathaniel, was 24 and...

Poor George seems to have suffered from melancholia. He followed his brothers Robert and Stephen to Australia. In 1841 he lived with his...

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...

Kent, the Garden of England, is home to illustrious families like Sir Francis Fane, the Earl of Westmorland. The Earl could trace his...

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others." —Pericles In 1861,...

The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would constantly be smashed and battered beneath...

The year is 1855, and Joseph is a butcher with a shop in Mt Barker. He is now sixty years old and has led a tough life. After years of...

Arriving in the fledgling colony in 1837, with a baby on the way, would seem daunting. Mary was now in an even stranger land with new...

We are not stuck in the ruts of destiny, we have the power to break free, clear our vision and see a new life for ourselves. Tony Clark Moti

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. John Dewey

"Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that,...

"If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences." ― Criss Jami, Killosophy.

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. Charles Angoff

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. Donald Creighton

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

Mark Twain said, "History never repeats itself, but it rhymes"

John Davis and Sarah Agombar married in Bethnal Green on 21 May 1804 at St John's Hackney, London. Their first daughter Sarah was born on...

"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants" (Issac Newton) In my journey, looking into the past, I have been...

Elizabeth or Mary - who died in 1855? Trawling through the internet looking for information on the long-departed can be tedious and...