Explore our Australian Family Stories
Discover the stories of our ancestors through this blog series.
From quiet villages across the oceans to life in early Australia, these stories follow convicts and settlers, farmers and families who shaped the lives we know today.
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Whiticker Family
Yorkshire to the Riverina
The Sullivan family of Rockley, near Bathurst, Australia.
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Blog Post #7 - Love, Laughter & Legacy: The Story of Peter & Joan Stonestreet
Peter and Joan Stonestreet
Blog Post #6 - Horses Still in the Stonestreet Blood
Levi James Stonestreet and grandson Norman Stonestreet. ©️2024 Stonestreet Family Archives
Blog Post #5 - From Greendale to Fairview: Stonestreet Homes Through the Ages
Fairview 1918 - Levi and Anne Stonestreet with family on the verandah of Fairview. A proud portrait of life and legacy in post-Federation rural New South Wales ©️2024 Stonestreet Family Archive
Blog Post #4 - Levi Stonestreet And A Murder at Kings Plains
Australian rural landscape ©️2025 Kin & Keepsakes Family Archive
Blog Post #3 - Stonestreet, A Name That’s Lasted 200 Years
Stonestreet Family Reunion, Blayney Golf Club, November 2024 by Merrillie Photography ©️2024 Stonestreet Family Archives
Blog Post #2 - Clifton Convict Quarters: The First Home of the Stonestreet Brothers
Clifton Convict Quarters, Locksley near Bathurst - the first home of the Stonestreet Brothers. ©️2024 Kin & Keepsakes Family Archives
Blog Post #1 - The Stonestreet Brothers: From Convicts to Colonists
St Thomas a Becket Church in Brightling, Sussex. The ancestral church of the Stonestreet Family. ©️2024 Kin & Keepsakes Family Archives.
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