Edith & Eric Bown (Nan & Pop) outside their Casino St home
in Lismore, NSW, Australia in the early 1980's.

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So here is a taste of Australian History through our ancestors' lives.

Research done by various family members (see credits) shows that some of our earliest ancestors came to Australia in chains- not immigrants by choice but as convicts, at the behest of the English crown. This information was kept hidden by earlier family members, because of the shame associated with the convict era. However attitudes changed during the Bicentennial (1988) when two hundred years of settlement (or European invasion) was celebrated. Many people took an interest in searching out their forebears around this time and many found their origins were quite interesting. In our case the Saul family found that they were descended from at least two female convicts and one male convict who were transported to Australia (Sydney and Port Arthur in Tasmania) in the early 1800s.

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