Thanet to Tasmania - Curling, Lucyann

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Résumé :
If family history is about gathering as many ancestors as possible, this book fails: it focuses on just three generations of the author's paternal side, between 1780 and 1826. At first nothing stirs the still waters of centuries of East Kent farming tradition. Men organize parish affairs, women follow domestic routines, boys attend a boarding school in Ramsgate, and only grandma seems interested in socializing or travel. Why then did Thomas Oakley Curling uproot everything and take his family on a marathon five-month voyage to Van Diemen's Land? Why leave one child behind? And where does Sir Charles Napier fit in? The genealogical quest starts naturally with a family heirloom, but soon tangential questions emerge, as multiple threads are collated and woven into one story. 'Georgian & Regency ancestors' might sound remote, removed from our reality, but the individuals' letters draw us into their world, and copious illustrations punctuate the text, animating the environments in which they lived. For fellow seekers there are also abundant indices, references, and a list of archives....

Biographie:
LucyAnn Curling - the intercapped name was a wedding present from her husband - has had a portmanteau career including teaching (junior classroom and individual instrumental), secretarial & administrative positions. She finally found her ideal workplace as houseparent in the UK's MDS (Music and Dance Scheme) schools. This provided the soil to grow her family tree, as her time off never matched that of her friends or family. As the clues unfolded, she felt the ancestors hovering nearby, whispering 'tell our story!'. She currently lives in East Kent, an ancestral area, but has moved home fourteen times, so suspects their nomadic gene might have been inherited.

Sommaire:
LucyAnn Curling - the intercapped name was a wedding present from her husband - has had a portmanteau career including teaching (junior classroom and individual instrumental), secretarial & administrative positions. She finally found her ideal workplace as houseparent in the UK's MDS (Music and Dance Scheme) schools. This provided the soil to grow her family tree, as her time off never matched that of her friends or family. As the clues unfolded, she felt the ancestors hovering nearby, whispering 'tell our story!'. She currently lives in East Kent, an ancestral area, but has moved home fourteen times, so suspects their nomadic gene might have been inherited....