| 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 McDougall - Lanarkshire SCT Anderson - Oxfordshire ENG Mahone - Hampshire ENG Artus - Gloucestershire ENG Manning - London ENG Ashby - Leicestershire ENG Martin - Lanarkshire SCT Boyd - Dublin Co IRL Miller - Somersetshire ENG Brabyn - Cornwall ENG Murphy - Co Durham ENG Bullivant - Leicestershire ENG Page - Co Durham ENG Buscombe - Cornwall ENG Parker - Cornwall ENG Butler - Glouctershire ENG Phillips - London ENG Butts - Kent ENG Reid - Lanarkshire SCT Cock - Cornwall ENG Reilly - Westmeath IRL Cox - Herefordshire ENG Rogers - Cornwall ENG Donaldson - Lanarkshire SCT Russell - Gloucestershire ENG Flemimg - Lanarkshire SCT Thom - Lanarkshire SCT Hardy - Tyrone IRL Trainer - Westmeath IRL Harris - Cornwall ENG Turnbull - Roxbugh SCT Hughes - Tyrone IRL Walker - Tyrone IRL Ikin - Shropshire ENG Wardle/Wardell - Co Durham ENG Jones - Monmouthshire WLS Ware - Gloucestershire ENG Kerr - Lanarkshire SCT Warr - Scotland or England Lane - Herefordshire ENG Weir - Lanarkshire SCT Little - London ENG Whitelaw - Lanarkshire SCT Llewellyn - Glamorganshire WLS Williams - London ENG May - Cornwall ENG Williamson - Lanarkshire SCT McBride - Lanarkshire SCT Wilson - Lanarkshire SCT McClean - Tyrone IRL 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. I had my DNA evaluated in 2013 and on the male line it is highly Celtic, and on the female line, I descend from Jasmine. 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 about putting accurate and reliable material on my website 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. Copyright The stories, photographs, plans etc are copyright to the various authors or indicated in accordance with Australian law. New web site My original site was created using the proforma established by the "my connected community" (mc2) host, part of the State Library of Victoria. When mc2 ceased in 2011, I transferred my site, as is, to the other State Library host, VICNET, but it ceased in January 2014, except for historical societies. I then establised this site, using a commercial host, but keeping the original mc2 structure as I am inexperienced in website desigh and structure. Archive In November 2013, the National Library of Australia, as part of it's Pandora project, asked for my permission to archive my VICNET site before it closed down in January 2014. After giving my permission, the site was archived on 9 December 2013. This then provides, into the future, a look at my website as it was on 9 December 2013. My new site <grthom.info> has been archived twice by NLA on 9 December 2014 and 2015. Click here to access Pandora, then click on a date to access my "old" site. Rosslyn Marie-Therese Thom In 2015 I created a section to publish my wife's family history, click on the bottom link below. Last updated on 9 December 2015. |
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, including related families Parker, Cock, Buscombe, Rogers, Allen
John
and Margaret Manning
John
and Ann Reilly
Thom, Weir and Fleming Branches
Mud
Island, Hawkesbury River NSW
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