My Families
April 24th, 2013
I have been tracing my own families since 1977 and have also traced my son’s paternal line and my partner’s family. I will slowly start to add family stories to this page.
Primary surnames and places of origin are:
ATKINSON – Queensland and Lancashire, England
This family was the subject of my primary thesis for the Society of Australian Genealogists Diploma of Historical Studies in 1992 – From Iron Chains to Gold Bars: The Story of the Walker Family and Its Descendants including the Evans, Potter, Bullen and Atkinson Families 1814-1941.
Waitangi Day – A New Zealand Connection (John Barrow Atkinson)
BARWICK – Tasmania and Kent, England
BILLSON – Leicestershire, England
BROOKS – Sussex, England
BULLEN – New South Wales, Victoria and Cornwall, England
This family was the subject of my primary thesis for the Society of Australian Genealogists Diploma of Historical Studies in 1992 - From Iron Chains to Gold Bars: The Story of the Walker Family and Its Descendants including the Evans, Potter, Bullen and Atkinson Families 1814-1941.
BURSTOW – Queensland and Sussex, England
CARNEGIE – Queensland, New South Wales and Angus, Scotland
John Carnegie, John Stanley, John Carnegie (again) – Lost and Found
Finding Helen Carnegie At Last!
Still Tracking Helen Carnegie/Ferguson/Chick
CARRADUS – Lancashire, England
CROW – Queensland and Devonshire, England
DEAN – Sussex, England
ELDRIDGE – Buckinghamshire, England
EVANS – New South Wales and Monmouthshire, Wales
This family was the subject of my primary thesis for the Society of Australian Genealogists Diploma of Historical Studies in 1992 – From Iron Chains to Gold Bars: The Story of the Walker Family and Its Descendants including the Evans, Potter, Bullen and Atkinson Families 1814-1941.
FEGAN – Wicklow, Ireland
Letters Home – My Irish Families
FINN – Queensland, New South Wales and Wicklow, Ireland
Letters Home – My Irish Families
World War One and the Brothers Finn
GUNDERSON – Queensland and Telemark, Norway
Remembrance Day & My Two Grandfathers (John Martin Gunderson)
HALVORSDATTER – Telemark, Norway
HANSEN – Queensland and Vendsyel, Denmark
HILL – Sussex, England
HORNE – Buckinghamshire
JARVIS – Tasmania and England
Tasman Jarvis – An Original ANZAC
JEFFERS – Armagh, Ireland
Letters Home – My Irish Families
JOHNSTON – Queensland and Cavan, Ireland
Letters Home – My Irish Families
JUDGE – Croughton, Northamptonshire, England
Old Research, New Resources, Fresh Eyes – Finding Elizabeth Judge
OAKLEY – Tasmania and Surrey, England
PILBEAM – Sussex, England
POLLARD – Croughton, Northamptonshire, England
Old Research, New Resources, Fresh Eyes – Finding Elizabeth Judge, or should that be Elizabeth Pollard
POTTER – New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia
This family was the subject of my primary thesis for the Society of Australian Genealogists Diploma of Historical Studies in 1992 - From Iron Chains to Gold Bars: The Story of the Walker Family and Its Descendants including the Evans, Potter, Bullen and Atkinson Families 1814-1941.
PRICE – Queensland, New South Wales and West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England
Leslie Gordon Price – A Rat of Tobruk
Old Research, New Resources, Fresh Eyes – Finding Elizabeth Judge, wife of Thomas Price
Remembrance Day & My Two Grandfathers (Henry Price)
Wealth for Toil – Thomas Price
PYERS – Norfolk Island, Tasmania and England
ROSEWARNE – Cornwall, England
SILK – Staffordshire, England
SPENCER – Tasmania, South Australia and Staffordshire and Leicestershire, England
Charles Douglas Spencer – Military Medal for Bravery
The Search For Henry Spencer Ends
THOMSEN – Vendsyel, Denmark
TITT – Wiltshire, England
TREVASKIS – South Australia, Queensland and Cornwall, England
Still Looking for James Henry Trevaskis (1839-?)
WALKER – New South Wales and Middlesex, England
This family was the subject of my primary thesis for the Society of Australian Genealogists Diploma of Historical Studies in 1992 - From Iron Chains to Gold Bars: The Story of the Walker Family and Its Descendants including the Evans, Potter, Bullen and Atkinson Families 1814-1941.
WHITE – Queensland and Wiltshire, England
I welcome contact from any other family members and am happy to share information.
