Like many families around the world, mine is investigating the family tree.  Who, what, where, when?  Why, only God knows!

We have managed to pull a few pieces of juicy gossip out of the fire, the man married to a brothel owner, the second wife who was trying to kill the husband the mother who died of self inflicted strychnine poisoning, leaving her child to fend for himself on the banks of a river.  There is the circus and the Tivolli theatre, Strathfield council, links to Ireland, Scotland, England, Italy and Sierra Leone.

Amongst what will become a steady stream of history postings, the family history spanning the Dunns, Duncums, Di Salvias, Gleesons and Pilgrims with a few others pitched in on along the way.