CLOVA'S FAMILY - THEIR AUSTRALIAN DIARY 1788-2018. VOLUME 2 - Tecno-Libro

This work covers the part played in the settlement and development of Australia by the extended family of my mother, Clova Williams, born Toowoomba 5th April 1927. Her great great great grand parents were Ann Forbes who arrived in Australia as a 16 year old convict on the Prince of Wales in the First Fleet in 1788, and another convict, Thomas Huxley who arrived on the Third Fleet. The Huxley family first settled on the Hawkesbury River eventually spread by the 1870's to the Warrego River and settled in what became Cunnamulla. in 1874 James Williams, born on the Murray River in 1845, but who moved to the Warrego with his father in 1859, married Annie Elizabeth Huxley, recently arrived in Cunnamulla and so begun Clova's family line. James' father Henry Thomas Williams also arrived in Australia as a convict. Other families involved in the work are the Watsons from northern England who were graziers on the Darling Downs, the Tunnies from Scotland who helped establish Port Do