Seeking the ancestors: A Father and Son Road Trip Episode 1 (Revised April 2023)

AUSTRALIA'S COLONIAL HISTORY - BUILDING A NATION
This is the first episode of a series of videos (6) showing Gerard Charles Wilson and his son Roger on a trip in search of the places the Wilson and Jones ancestors lived and worked in. This first episode begins at Botany Bay where Captain Cook and the First Fleet landed, before going to Sydney Cove where convict James Joseph Wilson arrived in 1827 and Michael Henry Jones in 1829. We then follow James Joseph and Michael to their first assignments west of Sydney at Bringelly and Richmond. Episode 2 will follow them to the Rylstone area and the farms where they worked and found their wives.