Thank you Jenny. I'll try to find the book you mention. Moondyne Joe was an amazing character. His life reads like a movie script. Only one photo of him has ever come to light and it shows him in a kangaroo-skin outfit with a cape and home-made boots. He holds a small axe in his left hand. I fancy I can see a family resemblance when I look at his face and that of my Bolitho great-grandfather. Joe's name was Joseph Bolitho Johns.
Freda, we live quite near Coleraine. Do you still have family there?
Joy