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Welcome to my site! It might be your site too if you are related to the following families:

Bryan, Bryant, Halbert, Hinshelwood, Keogh, Manktelow, McMillan, Perrin, Sempill, Simpson, and dare I say it “the Smith’s and Jones’s” and their descendants…. But gosh, there’s MORE!

Check if your surname appears in this list (link below) and feel free to contact me if you think your family tree may link in.

The families of my grandparents came to Australia in the 1850’s. They were either Brits, Scots or Irish and they came here for a better life. They have spread from Melbourne to as far EAST, WEST, NORTH & SOUTH of OZ as you can go, and also to New Zealand!

I’m so proud of them all, who goes on a one way trip? I often receive info and photos from relatives I’ve never met, and I hope that, if you think you might be related…. you give us a try!

“Australian history is full of surprises and adventures and incongruities, and incredibility’s, but they are all true, they all happened” Mark Twain, 1896.

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Albert Pike.

To view/download the full 62 page surname summary PDF produced 8 Mar ’26 for this site CLICK HERE

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    This is an amazing read. My name is James Hamilton McMillan and my Grandfather was Roger McMillan, he was born…

  • The passing of George Henry Perrin
    The Independent Fri 17 Apr 1936 Page 3 MR. G. H. PERRIN, SENR. With tragic suddenness the death occurred on Tuesday night last of one of Deniliquin’s oldest and most highly respected residents in Mr. George Henry Perrin, senr., aged 78 years proprietor of the Chronicle newspaper. Following his usual custom Mr. Perrin set out … Continue reading The passing of George Henry Perrin →
  • Convicts
    “Scarborough” 1782 by Marine Artist Frank Allen. Joseph Wright was a First Fleeter traveling on the “Scarborough” departing Portsmouth, Eng. on 12 May 1787 and arriving in Port Jackson N. S. W. on 26 Jan 1788. He was sentenced to 7 years in London Court on 26 May 1784. He was granted 30 acres. Block … Continue reading Convicts →
  • Wayne’s Poem’s
    Wayne Bradley’s poem about the 2013 Ashes. “The Man with the Moustache” Below Wayne’s Poem about the 2005 Grand Final courtesy of the Deniliquin Pastoral Times 2022.