Denise discusses the history of her ancestors the Lascelles family who were involved in the English Civil War and the slave trade.
Claudia Hull talks about her ancestors the Holmes family who were successful shipbuilders and shipwrights in County Durham, Auckland NZ and Melbourne.
During the 1880s the city Melbourne expanded and developed dramatically. Land prices boomed and a great number of people invested in housing developments. In the 1890s the boom collapsed leaving many insolvents. Penny Mercer looks at these times through the lens of her family. Mentions her Davies, Mercer and Hearle families.
Information for website: In this presentation Sue Blackwood describes searching for her ancestor James Bate who lived in Scotland during the first half of the 18th century.
In this presentation Martin Playne examines the lives of squatters in the early period of the Port Phillip settlement through the eyes of a squatter on the Campaspe River. He then contrasts this with the story of an ancestor who was an early settler on the Mornington Peninsula.
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In this presentation Maureen Trotter and Gayle Nicholas examine how their families lived and survived the 1890s depression years in Victoria.
Dr Mollenhauer describes her researches into the history of Irish Step Dancing in Australia
Alex describes her journey researching her d Fircks family in Germany and Latvia
The presenter describes the life of Thomas Wainewright who was transported to Hobart for fraud. He became an artist and his portraits provide documentation of personalities in Hobart before 1850. Thomas painted one of the presenter's ancestors.
Peter Collins describes the life of William Smith, a UK Parliamentarian from 1784 to 1830. William Smith campaigned for the abolition of slavery and championed the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813 which made it legal to practice Unitarianism.