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Again thank you everyone who has helped me, I appreciate all the hard work you's put in to help others. The information has been so helpfull, and on the other names you's researched for me. If anyone knows how I can find out if Raymond Leslie Woodford is deceased it would be most apppreciated. Thanks Again. and it's amazing to think there is other people on here related however distant it might be.
                                          Thank you, The-Game 

This is more so for my grandmother who asked me If "I could please try to trace her mother's side, as we're somehow related to Dr William Redfern 1774-1883, and also Lachlan Macquarie who was dubbed "The Father Of Australia. I know my Great grandmother was Claire (pronounced clara) quelch (born Redfern) died sometime in the 90's. Her mother was also Clara Redfern (born Painter we think). We're a little confused as we know there is Clara Redfern who married a Thomas Redfern sometime We assume back in the 1800's. unclear, but they date back to Dr William Redfern somehow and also Lachlan Macquarie, I'm confused as hell haha. But any help would be most appreciated by my Grandmother. Thank You 

I had a thought that this person might have been about the right age to have served in WW2, but the only WEEKES or WEEKS with a given name of Matthew is:

QX14335 Thomas Matthew WEEKS b. 1915 in Qld (barcode 4851715 on the NAA catalogue)

Doesn't look promising 

The-Game/Turner family, is this person involved in your family somehow? I'm just trying to work out how we can find him, was he married into the family, was he the father of a child of your family, was he just an acquaintance that you're trying to find out about?  What is the significance of Cowra, is that where your family was?

From what I've been told, due to it being a delicate topic, It's believed he was in Cowra, unknown why, but he had an indiscretion with my great grandmother, and it's believed he may of been an unknowing father to one of her children. So details have always been very scarce

I like the reference to the Jet Black Hair. That is what got me started on Genealogy quite a few years back. One particular line in my family has carried the same gene for centuries and it has always resulted in Black hair and very dark Brown eyes. This has variously been referred to as Spanish, European, African.

Hmm well I thought that was strange, Scottish was the supposed ancestors home. I have now gone back to the mid 1200's with the family and they lived in the border counties of N/E England. Although throughout the centuries many have moved about England and then throughout the world.

A DNA test revealed Celtic origin and through that early Celtic migrations from Moorish origins. So they were accidentally right, UK, Spain, Europe, Nth Africa.
Hmm so that's where my Black hair and Brown eyes comes from, probably yours too. Not much Norman Blood in me, yet my brothers were all born with Blondie hair and fair eyes and don't have the same gene.........No it wasn't the milkman. Just a freak of nature.

Neil

Thanks for all that information It's amazing, All on dad's mums side they have it, My sister has jetblack hair (when its not dyed). Dad has it, my nan has it and all of her siblings had jetblack hair, uncertain on the eyes, as we only know my sister and nan had blue eyes, and unsure on her siblings they're all deceased. But It's amazing to think they date back to the 1200's.