Searching the Past
(Bob circa 1950)

Self portrait (titled "The Mystic") for a photographic competition.

 

 

  

THIS THE HOME PAGE FOR
RESEARCHING THE HISTORY
OF MY FAMILY IN AUSTRALIA


Eva Lillian Thomson and Alan James Stillaway.

EVA LILLIAN THOMSON

My mother was born in Queensland — her ancestors came from Denmark in the 1870s.
They settled on a farm in the Bergen-Crows Nest area on the Darling Downs.

ALAN JAMES STILLAWAY
My father came to Australia from England some time prior to 1915. To say he was an enigma is an understatement as you will see from his story.

They had five children: Alan, Ethel, Joyce, John, Robert,

THEIR CHILDREN

 

Edward Charles Thomson and Eliza Margaretha Suhr

MY MOTHER'S PARENTS

Alan Stillaway and Matilda Harding

MY FATHER'S PARENTS

Peter Thomsen and Hannah Gundersolph

MY MOTHER'S GRANDPARENTS

William Stillaway and Elizabeth Green

MY FATHER'S GRANDPARENTS

Reviewed: 15th August 2009