Listers does anyone have any links to the JAMES family around Wollongong? We know of John Robert JAMES and his wife Ann Mary Josephine JAMES nee MOONEY who married in NZ but settled at Balgownie in the 1870s. Children include1. John Robert JAMES b 1870 NZ 2. James William Henry JAMES b 1871 NZ 3. Edward Alexander JAMES b 1873 Waterloo Sydney 4. Amy Alma JAMES b 1876 mar 1 John Brodie 2 John NASH 5. Albert Ernest JAMES b 1879 Sydney (settled BC Canada) 6. Ethel MAud JAMES b 1881 Balgownie (mar W J ANDERSON) 7. Charlotte May JAMES b 1882 (Mar James WATTERS) 8. Thomas George JAMES b 1886 Wollongong 9. Charles Alfred JAMES b 1888 Wollongong 10 Louisa Ann JAMES 1878 Redfern, mar R J Clark We suspect that other members of the JAMES family also travelled from Kent to NZ to try their hand at gold mining and may have also crossed the ditch to the Illawarra. Any possible links to the JAMES family welcomed. David Central Coast NSW