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  1. Rosemary Campbell

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    Hello fellow genealogists,
    My name is Rosemary Campbell and I am a retired literary historian, with a lifelong love of family narratives and of history at the level of indiviual people – for example, I'm not so much interested in the Poor Laws of the 1830s as a whole, but in how they forced my Head family ancestors in Kent, a young couple with a toddler and a baby, to move from one small town to another some distance away (which may have been the reason why the baby died). As for my Kirkham ancestors in Lincolnshire, I want to know what exact economic or social circumstances pursuaded two of the young men to up and leave the tiny village of Old Leake for a new country across the Atlantic – surely a terrifying prospect! I know why their relatives by marriage, the Stewart family, made an even more daunting voyage with their young daughter – they came to Australia as Bounty immigrants, because the new colony of Van Diemans Land (later Tasmania) had need of bricklayers. Henry Stewart, the bricklayer's father, by the way, had himself travelled from the Isle of Skye to Lincolnshire as a cattle drover, and had married there. Obadiah Ikin (what a name!), from Shropshire, made his way to Australia in 1792 as a soldier on a ship full of convicts, and founded a dynasty of Ikins in his new country. But other contributors to my family story were more reluctant travellers to Tasmania, coming from Ireland and England in chains to the other end end of the world, sometimes followed by their wives and children, and in other cases founding families there. With such an ancestry, and such a profession – and being greatly given to imagination – can you wonder tht I am a most enthusiastic unraveller of genealogies? Not just my own, but I am always very willing and just as excited to help unravel the threads of other searchers' narratives.
     
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    Chimp Moderator & Cheeky Human IMP Staff Member

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    Welcome to Top Dog Rosemary C|:-) great to have you here. What a wonderful outlook on all thinks genealogical.
     
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    Hi Rosemary, and welcome! C|:-)

    And from a quick glance at your profile, Happy Birthday too! <|:)
     
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    Ma-dotcom A Bonza Little Digger!

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    Welcome in Rosemary, we have great birthday parties here also. We have many ravels needing unraveling too. Happy Birthday.
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    Sis Rootles out resources!

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    Welcome Rosemary and Happy Birthday. <|:)
     
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    MollyMay Knows where to find the answers!

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    Hello and Welcome from me tooC|:-)

    and Many Happy Returns
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    Archie's Mum Always digging up clues

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    Welcome Rosemary and Happy Birthday C|:-)<|:)
    Just down the road from me....sort of :)
     
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    A very warm welcome and a very happy birthday to you! <|:)
     
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    mugwortismy cat Tenacious to the End!

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    Welcome birthday girl C|:-) <|:)
     
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    Doug Administrator. The Main Man. Staff Member

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    Welcome Rosemary. What a great history you have there.
     
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    Welcome to Top Dog Rosemary and......

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    GrannyBarb Custodian of the Family Accounts

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    Welcome, welcome! C|:-) So glad you are here.
    Happy, happy birthday to you! <|:)
     
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    Welcome in birthday girl<|:)
     
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    Philippa Always a lady.

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    Hello Rosemary (from literally just down the road!!!)

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    Thank you for your welcome, and for your generous comment! As far as I am concerned, dark rooms and dusty corners are just the places to find some of the funniest things of all! (In both senses of the word!)
     
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    Thank you for the welcome, and for the birthday wishes!
     
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    Thank you for the welcome, and for the birthday wishes! When I recover from my own birthday party yesterday I look forward very much to joining you all in unravelling the ravels here!
     
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    Thank you for the welcome and for the birthday wishes!
     
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    Thank you for your welcome and the kind birthday wishes!
     

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