Grahame Thom's family history

Grahame Thom grthom@bigpond.com

Welcome to my family history site established in March 2006.

The purpose of my web site is to share information about my family tree. I have been researching my family history since 1968. I am a Fellow of the Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra Inc. I have lived in Sydney, Canberra, Hobart and Melbourne, and now live in country Victoria, Australia. I am married with four children and nine grandchildren.

The surnames in my family tree I am researching are :-

Allen - Cornwall ENG
Anderson - Oxfordshire ENG
Artus - Gloucestershire ENG
Ashby - Leicestershire ENG
Boyd - Dublin Co IRL
Brabyn - Cornwall ENG
Bullivant - Leicestershire ENG
Buscombe - Cornwall ENG
Butts - Kent ENG
Cock - Cornwall ENG
Cox - Herefordshire ENG
Donaldson - Lanarkshire SCT
Flemimg - Lanarkshire SCT
Hardy - Tyrone IRL
Harris - Cornwall ENG
Hughes - Tyrone IRL
Ikin - Shropshire ENG
Jones - Monmouthshire WLS
Kerr - Lanarkshire SCT
Lane - Herefordshire ENG
Little - London ENG
Llewellyn - Glamorganshire WLS
May - Cornwall ENG
McBride - Lanarkshire SCT
McClean - Tyrone IRL
McDougall - Lanarkshire SCT
Mahone - Hampshire ENG
Manning - London ENG
Martin - Lanarkshire SCT
Miller - Somersetshire ENG
Murphy - Co Durham ENG
Page - Co Durham ENG
Parker - Cornwall ENG
Phillips - London ENG
Reid - Lanarkshire SCT
Reilly - Westmeath IRL
Rogers - Cornwall ENG
Russell - Gloucestershire ENG
Thom - Lanarkshire SCT
Trainer - Westmeath IRL
Turnbull - Roxbugh SCT 
Walker - Tyrone IRL
Wardle/Wardell - Co Durham ENG
Ware - Gloucestershire ENG
Warr - Scotland or England
Weir - Lanarkshire SCT
Whitelaw - Lanarkshire SCT
Williams - London ENG
Williamson - Lanarkshire SCT
Wilson - Lanarkshire SCT
Woor - Herefordshire ENG

Based on my 27 ancestors who arrived in Australia, my origins makeup is 51.5% English, 28.1% Scottish, 18.8% Irish and 1.6% Welsh.

Publications

I have published four books about my Ikin ancestors, see below. Copies have been lodged with various libraries, including, National Library of Canberra, Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra, State Library of New South Wales, the Stanton Library, North Sydney, the Lane Cove Public Library, the Society of Australian Genealogists, the Nepean Family History Society, Penrith City Library, the 1788-1820 Pioneer Association, the Tasmanian Family History Society and the State Library of Tasmania.

Obadiah Ikin - The story of a Shropshire Soldier and his family in Australia, by Grahame Thom and Margaret Miller, 1986, Canberra.

Some Ikin Reminiscences - Ikin Family Gathering - Sydney June 1990, by Grahame Thom and others, 1990, Canberra.

Henry Ikin (1816-1900) - An Autobiography, edited by R Wesley Hartley and Grahame Thom, 1988, Canberra.

Ikin Newsletters Numbers 6 to 30, by Grahame Thom, Wallan 2003. Please note that Newsletters 1 to 5 are included in Some Ikin Reminiscences.

Please appreciate that despite being as careful as I could be about putting accurate and reliable material on my web site errors can occur. Please let me know if you find any.

Click on the buttons below to see various articles that have been written about my ancestors. If you would like to contact me please click on my email address at the top of each page.

Last updated on 6 April 2013

Charts, Indexes and Profile

Access to my family tree charts and to several indexes I have compiled

Arrivals

Tracing my ancestors' arrivals in Australia

Anderson

Thomas Anderson

Bullivant/Wardle/Little

My Bullivant/Wardle connection

Ikin

Obadiah and Sarah Ikin

Lane Generations

William Lane to Alfred Oram Lane

Manning

John and Margaret Manning

Reilly

John and Ann Reilly

Thom/Weir

Thom and Weir Branches

Turnbull

Mud Island, Hawkesbury River NSW