© on all stories on all pages of this Web Site - they  are the property of Veronica Maude Bates 1998

The following seven pages contain stories of our ancestors.  I hope you will enjoy having a read which will give an insight into the lives of our early settlers in Australia.

The stories are very abbreviated so they are not too long for the medium of my web page, and they are just a very small selection of the many which I have now researched and written for our family history.

Please select the story you wish to read from the following list:-
OUR PLACE

Maria Carden ABBOT   1821-1897

Owen CAVANOUGH     1762-1841

    Margaret DARNELL      1767-1834

Matthew PRICE             1818-1883   part 1
Matthew PRICE             1818-1883   continued

John DICKINS              1812-1899

ONE OF THE 'LETTERS' from DORA BATES

THE PRICE FAMILY ORIGINS - CHANNEL ISLANDS

DE GUÉRIN FAMILIES FROM FRANCE pre 1500.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Rich-man, Poor-man, Beggerman, Thief.  YES -
We have them all in our family.

Sir Thomas Cawarden 1526-1559
Knighted by Henry V111.
Appointed by Queen Elizabeth as Controller of the Tower of London. Maria Carden Abbot is his 7th Great Great Grand Niece.

Derek, Cathie, Joshua and Amy Bauer
1997

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Letters with love   /Branken Moor Statistics  /  Passenger List 1  / Passenger List 2 
Some of the AncestorsMore of the Ancestors  /  Photo Album  /  More Stories  /Our Place  / 
Maria Carden Abbot  /  Owen Cavanough  /  Margaret Darnell  / 
Matthew Price page 1 /   Matthew Price Page 2  / 
John Dickins  /   One of the Letters  /  War Service  21  22  23  24  25 
Price Family 26  27  28    de Guerin Family 29   30   Medical 31  Index of Letters 32 
Families in the Books 33  Photo of Grandma, The Grand-children & the Books 34
A Pictorial Family History page 35  Adventurers, Pioneers, Clergy & the Military page 36
Descendants of Mary Louisa Raffaelle PRICE & Edward Henry PRICE page 37
Letters of the 20th Century