13/02/2022
There are fewer names on my father's side of our family tree than on my mother's. Partly that is a result of having traced my mother's side further back in time. Partly it is a result that my mother has done a lot of the research that heads sideways rather than backwards in time. She has, quite naturally, contacted more people on her side of the family than on my father's side.
Today is the birthday of one of my father's first cousins once removed--a grandson of my dad's uncle. He belongs to the Stennetts, one of the better researched parts of my father's family history.
Frederic Stennett arrived in Adelaide in 1839 aged 21, and married Rose Dunn, daughter of Thomas Dunn who arrived in Sydney as a convict and who later became Chief Constable of Sydney, in 1843. Frederick is buried in the Anglican Church cemetery in Campbelltown, a couple of blocks from where I lived for a while in the 1980s.
Frederic, Rose and their family were one of the pioneering families in the Bega Valley in the 1870s.
