I have a Thomas William Wills born 22 Sept 1856 in Werribee about whom I know naught could they be related? and my mothers mother had a half brother Harry Furnell who went to Geelong College and who played football with Carlton in 1918-1920. Presumably he learned to play in Geelong.He was born in Maryborough. Elizabeth Susie Zada wrote: >Hi Folks, > >And to add to a history making day for the Geelong Football Club, it's worth >remembering that 148 years ago, Thomas Wenthworth WILLS [from Point Henry] >formed the Geelong Football Club, several months after he had formed the >first Australian Football Club (Melbourne). In fact Tom WILLS is attributed >with being the founder of Australian Football (Aussie Rules style). > >WILLS also captained the Geelong Football team and was an administrator at >the club. > >I think Jennifer has been doing a lot of work for the club in this area in >preparation for the 150th anniversary and can probably correct anything I've >got wrong above. > >I think Tom WILLS would have been pretty impressed with our boys today! > >Regards .......... Susie Z > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >For on-line indexes and information on Geelong and District >http://www.zades.com.au > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

Hi Elizabeth, Thomas Wentworth WILLS was the son of Horatio Spencer WILLS who was killed at Cullinlaringo Station (Qld) in 1861 in what was known as the Cullin-La-Ringo Massacre (19 men, women and children were killed by the local aborigines). The WILLS family history is covered in "The Currency Lad: a biography of Horatio Spencer Howe Wills 1811 to 1861" by Terry Wills Cooke. Regards ................. Susie Z ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eliz Cook" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 10:52 PM Subject: Re: [GEELONG] Thomas Wentworth WILLS from Geelong >I have a Thomas William Wills born 22 Sept 1856 in Werribee > about whom I know naught > could they be related? > > and my mothers mother had a half brother Harry Furnell who went to > Geelong College and who played football with Carlton in 1918-1920. > Presumably he learned to play in Geelong.He was born in Maryborough. > Elizabeth > Susie Zada wrote: