George MILLETT, our convict

Background… On the question of whether there were any convicts in our family, there was nothing definite, only this snippet: ‘Someone stole a hankie,’ my mum told me. ‘Who? Where? When?’ I asked. She didn’t know and neither did any of my immediate relatives. A detail on the death certificate of my great great grandfather, READ MORE

How I ‘met’ my great grandfather, William WINTER. Part 1

I didn’t ‘physically’ meet my great-grandfather, William WINTER (1845-1883), and neither did any of my mum’s generation; he died well before any of us were born. There are no photos of him and there’s no memorabilia—that I know of.  And it seems that any stories about him have been lost in time. William became my READ MORE