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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...

Jan 11, 20223 min read

Chapter 10: Three Weddings and too many Funerals.

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...

Dec 10, 20215 min read

Chapter 9: Raising a family 1837-1855.

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...

Dec 3, 20217 min read

Chapter 8: South Australia- a free colony.

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

Nov 11, 20218 min read

Chapter 7: Joseph "Black Joe" Hatfield.

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

Oct 24, 20217 min read

Chapter 6: Robert "Harlequin Bob" Cowburn.

"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,...

Oct 12, 20218 min read

Chapter 5: Houses of Correction or Female Factories.

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

Oct 1, 202110 min read

Chapter 4: Van Dieman's Land

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

Aug 28, 202116 min read

Chapter 3: Transportation.

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

Aug 20, 202110 min read

Chapter 2: Trial and Prison

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

Aug 20, 202115 min read

Chapter 1: England 1800-1826 – Life and times of Mary Davis

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

Aug 14, 20211 min read

The French Connection.

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...

Aug 14, 20211 min read

The Liddy Files.

"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...

Dec 28, 20202 min read

Research Argy Bargy

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

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