New lives in an old land : : re-turning to the colonisation of New South Wales through stories of my parents and their ancestors /

New lives in an old land : : re-turning to the colonisation of New South Wales through stories of my parents and their ancestors / / Bronwyn Davies.

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This book re-turns to the colonisation of New South Wales through the lives of the author's ancestors. By looking hard and listening carefully, by being prepared not to look away, and at the same time, by delving with love into the specificity of those ancestral lives, this research entangles t...

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Superior document:Brill's Specials in Modern History ; Volume 4
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Davies, Bronwyn, 1945-
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Brill's specials in modern history ; Volume 4.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • Prologue
  • PART 1: Picking at the Skin of Silence: Stories of My Parents and Grandparents
  • 1 Growing up at 98 Upper Street
  • 2 Alice (Al) Nivison and Euston Blomfield
  • 3 Norma Nivison Blomfield
  • 4 Jean Carty and George William Hope Davies
  • 5 Thomas Alfred Davies (Tom)
  • PART 2: Of Princes, Paupers and Soldiers: Stories of My Father's Family
  • 6 Rodri Mawr, King of All Wales
  • 7 Danish Princes and Princesses
  • 8 David Campbell and the Bushrangers
  • 9 From Soldier to Farmer to Magistrate: Thomas Alfred Davies and Maria Louisa Campbell
  • 10 Small Selectors: Margaret Miles and Michael Carty
  • PART 3: Of Judges and Surveyors, Sailors and Soldiers, Convicts and Farmers: Stories of My Mother's Family
  • Introduction to Part 3
  • 11 The First Fleet. David Collins: Buried in Oblivion?
  • 12 The Irish Uprising: Thomas Blomfield in Ireland
  • 13 Richard Brooks: A Tragic Journey
  • 14 Thomas Valentine (Val) Blomfield: At War with Napoleon
  • 15 Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land: David Collins and His Descendants
  • 16 Opening Up the Interior of New South Wales: William Cox
  • 17 A Woman's View of the Colony: Christiana Brooks
  • 18 From Soldier to Farmer: Thomas Valentine and Christiana Jane Brooks
  • 19 Deputy Surveyor General: Samuel Perry and Surveying and Mapping the Land
  • 20 From Scottish Tenant Farmers to Landed Gentry: Mary Wightman and Abraham Nivison
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2
  • References
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Subjects.

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