Hello everyone, I have some new info. about JOHN Richardson McWilliam, if anyone can help me with info.about him or his married life during his/their time in the Rockhampton area, I would be most appreciative. I didn't know when John arrived in Queensland, until I received his birth cert, this week, and it says 21 years in Queensland. So he must have arrived in 1853/4. He was in NSW around 1873/4. At the moment all I know is: John arrived in 1852 in Victoria, aged 14/15, with a Tutor. He was born in Co.Armagh, Ireland. He is said to have 'ditched' his tutor, told his father he wasn't coming home, and headed to the goldfields!! But the info. on his death cert. tells me that he came to Queensland almost immediately after arriving in OZ, that would be in 1853/4. Does anyone have any idea of what a young man/boy might do to survive in those days? I wonder if he went to school?? Were there any then? It's said that he was at Trinity College in Ireland, so he must have had potential. He was a man who got involved in the community, and was a journalist in Hill End, Mudgee and owned his own newspaper in Coonamble, NSW. His father was a Presbyterian minister, so he just might have been involved in that church in Rockhampton, or wherever else he might have been in Queensland. Would he have come to Queensland by ship in 1853/4? Somewhere, in ages past, I think I found him on the "London", going from Melbourne to Sydney, in 1854. But, I could be dreaming also. Then he might have sailed to Queensland? . Janet ORR married John Richardson MCWILLIAM. I am very interested in his life and times in R'Hampton. He was involved with the cricket and rowing in the 1860's. Also on the committee that built the first School of Arts. From a book, "The Early History of R'hampton", I gather he was also involved in retail shops, one called Messrs Younger and M'William, in Bolsover Street. Another might have been managed by a son, Mr. Thomas Moore William McWILLIAM, was with Messrs Walter Reid and Co., R'Hampton. Mr. John.Richardson McWILLIAM married Janet ORR at the Agricultural Reserve home of William ORR, in July 1866. The McWILLIAM family moved to NSW, around 1873/4, and the rest of the family were born there. Any help with anything todo with John Richardson McW. or Thomas Moore McWilliam would be gratefully received. Many thanks and best wishes, Jill .