Thanks Sue.
As I said in one of my earlier postings; this family was rocked first by the loss of James CANDY's business to fire in Warrnambool, then by his bankruptcy, and then by his death when he fell from the roof of a structure he was building.
Many of his children had entanglements with the law in the form of the Warrnambool Magistrate's Court, and following James's death in 1874, the wheels seemed to fall off the family.
One of the sons, who went by the sobriquet of 'Bob the Stranger' ended up on the Goldfields of the Northern Territory where he died in 1910, whereas another, Absolem, used the alias Peter CANDY and got into trouble with the Victorian and South Australian Police before dying when his fishing boat sank in 1922.
These and other members of the family seems to have become drifters and, as you put it, largely to have escaped 'polite' society and are not much captured by the normal processes of recording life's events.
They're more interesting, but infinitely harder to trace!
Kind regards
Phil
