Seeking the Ancestors: A Father and Son Road Trip Episode 4

AUSTRALIA'S COLONIAL HISTORY - BUILDING A NATION
In this episode, having arrived in the Coonamble district at the end of episode 3, Gerard and Roger go in search of the Combara and Budgeon properties where Michael Jones and James Joseph Wilson ran their sheep farms. They had no trouble finding the properties. But better still, they had the great fortune to meet by chance along the road, Wayne, the farm manager of the present Budgeon property. He invited them to view Budgeon’s present farming activity. The visit, which they videoed, gave them a good insight into the lives and experience of the Wilson and Jones farming families. They then followed Michael Jones and his family to Muswellbrook, 230 miles or 370 kms southeast towards the New South Wales coast. Michael had planned to settle in Muswellbrook and further his business interests, but tragedy awaited him and his wife Elizabeth. Episode 5 will be about how James Joseph Wilson fared after he left Budgeon in 1859.