Category: Family History
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ARRIVEDERCI ITALIANO ASCENDENZA!
My mother’s maiden name was Juli Vacchini; her father’s name was Caleb Hutton Vacchini; her grandfather’s name was Caleb Francis Vacchini and her great grandfather’s name was John Vacchini. Everyone except John was born in NSW, Australia. Juli put her recollections of her family onto paper around the year 2000…
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IRVINGS TO AUSTRALIA
My paternal ancestry has always been a bit muddled, primarily because my father was never forthcoming about his own life and deflected any questions about his ancestors. My mother wasn’t much help either, saying that her mother-in-law was a rather strange woman who had migrated to Australia from England just…
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THE RUGBY REVEREND
The Reverend John Percival Hoatson (1856-1910) Vicki’s 1st cousin, 3 times removed. John Percival Hoatson was born on 16th May 1856 in Halifax, Yorkshire, the son of Joseph Cockin Hoatson and Ruth Smith. He was the fifth child of seven; his siblings were Martha, born in Manchester (1848-1857); Marion born in Halifax (1849-1922); Mary…
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IRISH ANCESTORS IN BERRIMA
Two families, both from Ireland, both Protestant made their way to Berrima New South Wales decades prior to the celebrated gold rush in Australia. Both families were well respected, involved positively in developing their communities, produced very interesting characters and enjoyed a union of marriage between them. The first to…
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ALICE HOATSON
Alice Hoatson born about March 1859 in Halifax, Yorkshire England and died in December 1944 at Edmonton, Middlesex England. Alice was a niece of the Reverend George Hoatson, Vicki’s 2nd Great Grandfather, making her Vicki’s 1st cousin 3 X removed. Alice, the sixth child of Joseph Cockin Hoatson and Ruth Smith was…
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THE SIGN of the WINDMILL
This is the story of “The Sign of the Windmill” a pub in Lambeth that Roger’s ancestors were closely linked, about a block from the Thames and still operating today. In September 2016 we based the London part of our England/Scotland trip at The Vauxhall Suites, apartments across the Thames…
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THE FOX UNDER THE HILL
Rosemary Crook is another cousin of ours with a great Ancestry Tree “Lovesey Family Tree”. She is also a descendant from my 4th Great Grandparents, David Hambly and Mary Sandoe, through a Londoner, Thomas Lovesey who married Elizabeth Hambly (my 3rd Great Grandfather John Hambly’s older sister) in 1813. Thomas…
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WILLIAM SAMUEL RAWLING HAMBLY
William Samuel Rawling Hambly: born on 31st March 1823 in Kenwyn, just outside Truro in Cornwall; died 1stDecember in Ballarat, Victoria. “WSR” is Roger’s 2nd Great Grandfather. WSR the 2nd child of John Hambly and Mary Ann Rawling Trudgeon, born in Kenwyn, just outside Truro was like the most of his family a truly…
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THE CARIBBEAN MYSTERY
John Laurence Hendrickson. Vicki’s 3rd great Grandfather. Born on Nevis, British West Indies about 1808 and died in Stawell, Victoria on 1st April 1879. Between us we have a good smattering of convicts, religious ministers, rogues, soldiers, saints, fossickers, horsemen and pioneers. We are continually in awe and amazed at the resilience…
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CORNWALL TO BALLARAT
How did a mining captain’s son from Cornwall end up on the Ballarat gold fields of the 1850’s before importing boots from his brother-in-law’s factory in Devon? Thomas Edward Miles, born in 1809 was a Welsh blacksmith from Upper Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales; he married Ann Jones, born in 1814…
