After researching my side of the family, in the past couple of weeks I tried to reconstruct the other side and got very much into the history of the Blaxland. The connection was Lorna's gran, Eileen who is a direct descendent of John Blaxland from whom descend the Blaxland so famous in Australia.
Incidentally, my interest came about as the late Eileen kept telling me about her italian connections. Furthermore, in our conference trip to Australia last february we actually visited the Blue mountains and passed by some of the places which were pioneered by Gregory Blaxland during the XIX century.
In this blog I'd like to talk about and document the research done as well as initiate the discovery of the other three families close to me: Higgins, Hempstead and Scullion. Hopefully, in time, I will manage to involve directly also others who can contribute.
