The Family Tree that Drives you to Drink.

As many of my family know, I have spent too many hours over the past 30 years , from time to time anyway, researching family history.

Amongst some of the best and most important finds are the following:

1. Some of us were on the first boat to land in South Australia. In fact, The Buffalo with Governor Hindmarsh was really the third boat to arrive...and we were here even before that!

2. We had a close link ( great-great grand-pappy) to the roots of the Wine industry in South Australia, so its fitting that most of us have upheld that connection in our own way.

3. There are skeletons in the closet, which makes it more interesting every day....but much of that is still inappropriate to put in writing....yet.


4. My own grand-mother only left the State of South Australia once in 101 years, whilst her own father travelled the world, including the U.S , before arriving in South Australia...on his own...at the age of 15 years!

5. One great-great grand mother died giving birth on board their sailing vessel, having made it nearly all the way from England, just off the coast of Sth Australia...so her husband promptly married her sister and carried on!

6. That one of my great grand fathers' brothers was Percy Leason, well known international artist, Illustrator for the Bulletin and Punch magazines and whose self-portrait currently hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. And we went to see it. Wouldnt say he was as pretty as a picture himself though!





 7. It's worth a separate mention that Percy Leason was co-creator of one of the most well-known advertisements to grace the halls of the pubs of Australia. The advertisement which states ' I allus has wan at eleven' as per photo above.





8. I believe early Hoskin ancestors in Australia were the first to live on St Peters Island near Ceduna in the mid 1800's...and that he...William...had his head cut off by the indigenous population in the area. He must have deserved it, I guess.

9. That one of our relatives on our mothers side was so wealthy they took the whole family of about 7 children and themselves...and staff...on a trip to Europe...in 1880!  Why would you put yourself through it??

I wonder what Percy would think
of the As Iz Gallery










10. So far, I have certain information about my mothers family...oh my God...with a name like Jones I was never going to touch it...but amazingly I have some birth death marriage records dating back to 1585 in a little village called Queen Camel very near to Bath. The trouble is, when you go that far back...we are talking about 15 generations...there are 65,536 relatives on the family tree line. Do the sums for yourself. Four grandparents, 8 Great-grand, 16 great great grand, etc.



QUEEN CAMEL TODAY

With statistics like that to contend with, I'll catch up with you in a few years time.

Cheers,

Ned Hoskin
www.asizart.com.au


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