I have decided to take up the challenge of writing blog posts about “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks” that was proposed by Amy Johnson Crow on her No Story Too Small blog a few days ago.
“The challenge: have one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem — anything that focuses on one ancestor.”
I will start with as many of my family ‘Boat People’ (ancestors who emigrated from England to Australia in the 19th Century) as I can find information about, including:
1848 Esther FERRES (nee CHANCELLOR)
1848 John FERRES
1849 Mary DAVEY
1853 Ebenezer and Elizabeth DAVEY
1853 Moss SIMMONS
1857 John Dunston and Jane Forrest TONKIN
1857 Caroline Elizabeth TONKIN
1857 Benjamin Alfred Smart and Elizabeth LATTER
1859 William and Susan LEACH
1859 Henry LEACH
1860 Esther and Rachel SIMMONS
1889 Arthur William and Ellen Louisa ROBERTS