I'd like to honour my four great-grandfathers:
William Justin Beauchamp Cameron, who came to Australia from Ireland as a fourteen year old boy, without his parents and family, lived an adventurous pioneering life, and made good though with a number of setbacks;
Rev. Edmund Huband-Smith, born in Ireland, ordained in Lichfield England as a Church of England priest, came to Australia and ministered for thirty years in a remote, small settlement called Jerrys Plains in New South Wales;
Thomas Hood Bentley, master mariner, who rose from humble and impoverished beginnings in the East End of London, lived in Hong Kong and Taiwan, sailed his own barque around the world for four years, and finally became a marine surveyor in Sydney, NSW;
Thomas Murray Hall, born in New South Wales, became an accountant and a Member of the Legislative Council in Queensland (the upper house of Queensland which was abolished by a Labor government early in the 20th century).
MarieC
