Hello, My name is Di and I have just found your site as I'm trying to find more information about family members.
I live in New South Wales, Australia.
Some of my family members came to Australia in about 1844.
One of my uncles was born in 1908 and as a boy of 10 yrs, went to work with his father clearing land for farming (He was given an axe for Christmas). Later, he helped his father build a house with slab walls,a bark roof and bags hung inside for walls - the floor was earth. They lived on native animals that they shot in the bush and rabbits which they also used as skins for blankets etc. And this life was better than the life that earlier family members left behind in England.
I've found it very interesting reading the information here as it gives me an insight into the lives of some of our family, who were knitters and coal miners.
The family I am trying to trace is Worth and the family lived in Bagworth, (my information has them there between 1605 and about 1639).
But the family is also listed in Stanton, Thornton (1660 to 1741).
Markfield (1757 to 1873),two brothers died in 1780, could they have been caught up in the Luddite trouble in that year?
Cheers Di
