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Australia / Re: "The Somerset Years"
« on: Saturday 24 February 24 05:46 GMT (UK) »Your John and Susanna Harrison arrived on the Lysander? John Toward Harrison and Susanna Shackloth? IF so i have heaps of information on them i'm happy to share. My Aunt has written a book on the Harrison history.
Yes giblet, that would be them. I've been tracing back the family tree on the Harrison side as a pet project over the last couple of years on and off. I have little time to work on it unfortunately, but I have birth/marriages/deaths from online resources and linked everything from the current generation (i.e. my kids) all the way back to 1510 on the Harrison line.
My wife asked my 'why' my ancestors came out to Australia a couple of days ago, so I went hunting and found John Toward Harrison and Susanna Shackloth came out as assisted immigrants to Victoria (which upset my wife as I think she was secretly hoping my ancestor was a convict). That's the reason I found out about the book 'The Somerset Years'.
Any information you've have access to would be appreciated, the book by your Aunt sounds very interesting. I've been wanting to fill out details for each person in the family line as my next task and didn't know where to begin. I could also provide some info/a chart of what I have so far if interested up until my grandparents (as they've passed away now so no privacy concerns.) I've been building the chart/connections using only documented resources, so it should be pretty accurate.
Hi Geoff, private message sent.