| 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 |
Access
to my family tree charts and to several indexes I have compiled
Tracing
my ancestors' arrivals in Australia
Thomas
Anderson
My
Bullivant/Wardle connection
Obadiah
and Sarah Ikin
William
Lane to Alfred Oram Lane
John
and Margaret Manning
John
and Ann Reilly
Thom
and Weir Branches
Mud
Island, Hawkesbury River NSW
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