Where the heirlooms are stories.

Paper trails, passenger manifests, newspaper clippings, old books, photographs, and DNA… these are the bread crumbs that lead to a life. Plug them into a timeline and you see history unfold.

A Timeline of British Colonial History

Family Migrations

Whitty • Olliver • Cooper • Simcox • Stephens • Eates • Manahan • Price • Horan • Donovan • Billon • Pereira

These families travelled from old homelands to far-off frontiers, some by choice, some in chains, all steering blind into unknowable futures.

Follow their life stories in these blogposts, as we fossick through history for traces of the ancestors.

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Rebecca Williams Bromley: Eurasian Daughter of the Indian Cantonments (1827-1900)

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