It’s Australia Day, and I was inspired by Shelley’s blog to find out what happening on this day in my own family’s past.
Here are the highlights:
1616 – Eleanor Nicholas, my 9th great grandmother, was baptised in St Keverne, Cornwall.
1823 – Martha Miles, my 3rd great-grandmother, was baptised in the Wesleyan Methodist Church at Towcester, Northamptonshire. She married George Goode from Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire and they migrated to New South Wales with their two young daughters.
1840 – James Pascoe, baby brother of my 3rd great-grandfather Henry Pascoe of St Keverne, Cornwall, was baptised. He died unmarried when he was only 31.
1865 – Grace Pascoe nee Oates, my 3rd great-grandmother, her daughter Bessie, and her mother Elizabeth Oates nee Williams arrived in Sydney on the Hornet from Plymouth as assisted immigrants, eventually joining their brothers and sons in the Millthorpe area of New South Wales. Eleanor Nicholas was her 4th great-grandmother.
2008 – dear Uncle Ray passed away after a long illness.
For all but the last one there was no ‘Australia’, let alone Australia Day.
To find out how I got the list out of my family tree software, see this blog.
On the 15th May 1831 the barque Peru from Salem, Massachussetts arrived in the Fiji Islands to look for beche-de-mer, turtle shell, and other trade goods. The Captain, John H. Eagleston, wrote a log which is now in the Essex Institute Library in Salem.
