Life in Australia’s Convict Female Factories

Gallery exhibitions – National Archives of Australia.

An estimated one in five Australians has an ancestor who spent time in a convict female factory, but very little material survives from these women. Their contribution has been largely ignored, yet they are the ‘mothers of the nation’ – women with grit who survived the dire conditions [...]

Mundy’s at Rookwood

Following is a list of Mundy’s buried at Rookwood Cemetery (NSW) discovered through my research.

Rhonda’s Ponderings: New England’s History: Dainggatti Entry Page

Rhonda’s Ponderings from: New England’s History: Dainggatti Entry Page.

The George Robert Miller Debate

Is there 1, 2 or 3 of them?

I have created this page in the hope that fellow Miller researcher’s will have a read and forward any opinion’s or clues they may have on the subject of “George Robert Miller”, or better yet add your comments below for other’s to see them as well.

Laid out below [...]

Family Connections & Researchers

Helping each other…

This page list’s members of the extended family that are currently researching the families found within this website and family member’s who have a web presence.

Marco Family aka Millers

Our Miller and related families had strong ties to the world of ‘travelling entertainers’ as showman, acrobats, sideshow, circus and even a snakeman. In fact the family is still represented within the business today!

Charlie Miller (1894-1949) was apparently known as the ‘Snakeman’ around Bingara. Charlie and Emily nee Davis (his wife) were also known [...]

George Robert Miller & Mary Ann Jones

MILLER BACKGROUND…

How the Millers came to be in Australia we still haven't discovered!!!

Maybe they swam???

This is definitely one of my brick walls!

From detective work thus far I believe that George & his brother Thomas arrived via Tasmania as Thomas resided, married and had children there. After his [...]

William Jones & Mary Ann Sullivan

A LITTLE JONES & SULLIVAN HISTORY

Both of these lines came to Australia as Convicts.

William JONES arrived on the "Marquis of Wellington" on 27th January 1815, aged 26, after being convicted for life at the ‘Old Bailey’ on 12 Jan 1814 for stealing sheep. "The London Chronicle", 15 Jan 1814, ‘Report from the Old Bailey’ – [...]

Cummins and Miller Family

This book is dedicated to all those fellow researcher’s in my mother’s birth family – hence the ‘maternal’ category. If you haven’t been here before or know us, my mother Peggy was adopted. We have no past personal historical history with this line except what we have [...]

Alexander Farrell & Mary Agnes Bradshaw

This is my grandmothers family, a cousin from Kempsey has told me they are Daingatti (Dainggatti), from the research I had done I thought they were Biripi as Nan was born at the Railway Reserve, Walcha. If anybody can help me out with this, I would gladly receive your advice or assistance.

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