The Farm, the Fort and the ‘Big House’ on the Hill
Laws hill (in old Scottish the word ‘Laws’ actually means ‘hill’) and Laws Farm and its hinterland...
Read MorePosted by lauriewilson | Jan 2, 2018 | Stories I |
Laws hill (in old Scottish the word ‘Laws’ actually means ‘hill’) and Laws Farm and its hinterland...
Read MorePosted by lauriewilson | Dec 29, 2017 | Stories I |
This story will give a summary outline of the three boys who were the first generation of our Wilson clan to be born and reared in the sovereign colony of Tasmania, as it became on separation from the Colony of New South Wales...
Read MorePosted by lauriewilson | Dec 17, 2017 | Stories I |
A number of our contemporary cousins, some now passed others still with us, but all of the era of the 20th and 21st centuries, took the time and effort to write about our families of old – from the 19th century and even...
Read MorePosted by lauriewilson | Dec 14, 2017 | Stories I |
The first child of William Hartley and Margaret was a son whom they named William Sorell Wilson, was born in 1821 whilst they lived in the Pittwater region of Van Diemen’s Land, where the village was named Sorell by...
Read MorePosted by lauriewilson | Dec 11, 2017 | Stories I |
Our cousin Jennie Towan has written a rather moving story of the sad and troubled life of her great-grandmother Jessie Ison nee Wilson who was the fifth child and fourth daughter of William Sorell Wilson and Eliza nee Wilson....
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