Author: lauriewilson

Baptism, marriage and death records show that during the period 1770 to 1800 our Wilson family were identified as living at Laws or Drumsturdy. Sometime after 1782 they moved just a couple of hundred metres along the Drumsturdy...

Regrettably to this point no image of William Hartley Wilson, the first of our Australian pioneer Wilson forebears, has been found; we are more fortunate with William’s spouse Margaret, having two images, which tend to support...

Our knowledge of William Hartley’s bride, Margaret Williamson, is fairly limited.(** see footnote). The legend within the ranks of our Tassie cousins is that Margaret may have been a Governess; it goes on that William had a...