Hello Patricia and Julie, Jonathon Griffiths was my Gt x 3 Grandfather. My line comes down through Jonathon and Eleanor's daughter Ann Griffiths of Richmond NSW. Kind regards Lyn. Jonathan Griffiths was my first ancestor in Australia and I have been told he died on Griffiths Island in November of 1839, I am descended from his son James who lived in Richmond NSW, Tasmania and Victoria. Patricia Just returned from a lovely holiday travelling by car via Victoria through South Australia and back through inland NSW. Whilst visiting the Great Ocean Road we stayed a couple of nights in historic Port Fairy in Victoria and went for a walk around Griffiths Island which had a colony of mutton birds as well as a lovely lighthouse. The lighthouse was built from bluestone and is about 11m high. There was also the foundations of the lighthouse keeper cottage which had been demolished in the 1950s. After walking around the island I read in a brochure that it was named after John Griffiths who had a established a whaling station there in 1835. It got me thinking about the family of convict Jonathan Griffiths 1773-1839 who was a well-known Hawkesbury shipbuilder and I recalled that he had travelled to Tasmania and Victoria with some of his sons. I paid a quick visit to the library in Port Fairy and in a local history book it stated that John Griffiths was the son of convict Jonathan Griffiths, which confirmed my suspicions. Arriving home I checked a few local resources including the entry for 'Jonathan Griffiths' in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol 1, pp. 485-487 (which you can view online at http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010442b.htm ) which put a few of the pieces together. Briefly...John Griffiths was born in Richmond NSW in 1801. He worked with his father in the shipping business and was involved with his sealing enterprises. In the 1820s Griffiths took 2 of his sons to Tasmania. They were granted land and built houses and established themselves in business. Jonathan Griffiths’ died in 1839 at Port Fairy. Second son, John Griffiths was concerned with the trading and the sealing & whaling industry in the 1830s. He then settled in Port Fairy (originally called Belfast) and in 1835 he purchased an island off Port Fairy where he built a whaling station. This island now bears his name. The seals were wiped out soon after and by the early 1840s, whaling terminated but Port Fairy flourished as a port town and commercial centre. It was also renowned for its rich soils. Griffith’s returned to Tasmania after suffering with financial losses in 1847 and re-established his shipbuilding business carrying the first wool cargo from Port Fairy to London. He died in 1881 in Launceston. It is amazing to find the connections of Hawkesbury families in the most unlikeliest places. E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.1.0.447) Database version: 6.13750 http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/