G'day Chris

Yes some of OZ did come here of a free spirit and not ball and chain.

It was John James Croker and wife Dinah Vale and their 4 kids Mary Anne, John James and Samuel that came here arriving Sydney aboard vessel Lysander 22 Oct 1841. At a place called Windellama near Goulburn which is south of Sydney and north of canberra.

Big families were all the rage then even without social security. A family of ten with each of those ten having 10 kids gives the family historian something to do and burn the midnight oil.

I have all this on FTM

Of interest to you might be these are what I call the Devin Croker connection. There is also another lot of ex-UK who I call Dorset Crokers who came out at the same time. who settled in the Goulburn area. I have yet to find connection between the two. The Dorset Crokers changed their name from Crocker to Croker with migration.

Our Montgomery line is from Rotherham, Yorkshire, England

I am just doing the Croker history for friends of mine.

Happy hunting

Regards

steven
Crookwell NSW Aust