on my mums side there were landed jentry from england that were given large selections from govenor mcquarie (he was a panton he was a mate of the govenor and he came to oz with him) near kempsey. (wabra station) her other side , her mums, were the morris's whom came from the US after loosing their tobacco plantations in the south after (during the civil war) lewis morris (the grand father of my great grandfather whom came to oz) ,and his brother robert signed the declaration of independence.
www.data-wales.co.uk see the link for data-wales. go to that site and type in the search "the morris collection" and you'll see some of my relitives from the US.( they are my exibits on consignment, for sale). on dads side it's much less researched. i wasn't told anything. they have both died , but i have since found out dads grand mum was a full blood aboriginal. dad was blue eyed, but it makes scence without going into detail. no doubt there are convicts in my dads heritage. of all this i'm proud. a real aussie no less.
louis lamour once put it that you could never judge a man just by looking at him. you never knew where he came from or what he'd done. he was talking about western men (USA). he went on to say that you judge a man by what he became, not what he had been or where he came from. i have paraphrased him, but its basically what he was saying.
