a bit of thread drift here.

25 years ago I had an friend who was born before the first World War, and whose Grandfather was one of the first free settlers to arrive in Australia. He came in the early 1790's, around the time my earliest ancestor was born was born here.

Both her grandfather & father started their families much later than was the norm, which is why she was the second generation of her family born in Oz & I am the 5th generation in mine, and we were both linked to the first British settlement in Oz.

sandra