Dear Heather and list members, I'm glad that you're interested in some of these families Heather and I've also got a strange feeling you wrote to me years ago, though I may be wrong. I'll try to put all these interconnected families into some sort of order, so that you can see the link: maybe there are others now on the list who have information to share as well. All of these families are descendants of William and Ann Cockerell, who arrived as free settlers in Sorrento on the Ocean in 1803, then went on to settle Hobart in 1804. (I'm a Cockerell descendant as well.) Their daughter, Ann Elizabeth Cockerell, had three children to Thomas Myers: Nathaniel, Affia, and Sarah Ann. Sarah Ann first married John Felmingham, then had two liasons, the second with John Cymbolene Graham. Sarah and John Graham moved to Gippsland eventually, as did Sarah's son John Felmingham junior. Many of Sarah's descendants still in the Gippsland area. The second daughter, Affia, bigamously married the widowed George Scutt in Port Albert in the very early days of the settlement, but she has no descendants. Brother Nathaniel Myers became a whaling captain, based in Hobart, as did his cousins, the Mansfields, children of Affia (Sophia) and Michael Mansfield. Affia and Michael's daughter Susannah and her husband Ramsay Williamson also moved to Tarraville, in the very early days of settlement, and I believe their presence there was the reason Affia Myers moved to Tarraville to stay with them, when she found the brutal (documented) ways of her husband Louis Pilsbury too much. I am hoping to write a book on Susannah Williamson's three brothers, who were all whalers, and their cousin Nathaniel Myers, who was also a whaling captain. I'd read of that elusive piece of scrimshaw carved by Nat Myers, last seen in Gippsland in the 1980s in the home of one of Nat Myer's Felmingham ggreat-nieces, and this was the reason for my deleriously happy email recently, when I found it at last in the National Museum in Canberra. I had really hoped that I could locate it, to illustrate the book, when and if I ever write it! The Napper name comes in when one of Susannah Mansfield's daughters Affia married Simeon Napper, in Sale. If anyone has any information on Simeon Napper's ancestry I'd love to hear from them. I've located a Captain Napper, who sailed from Hobart to Port Albert frequently, and I guess this was Simeon's father and how Simeon and Affia Williamson met, either in Tarraville/Port Albert, or in Hobart while she was visiting her uncles or grandparents. (I'm aware of the more recent family history: it's the early days I'm more focussed on at the moment.) And if anyone can shed any further light on the relationship between Thomas Williamson and Ramsay Williamson, I'd be over the moon. Thomas named a daughter Clara Affia: that unique name again! However, we haven't been able to find a family connection as yet..I'm convinced there is one..... Sorry that this is so long, but at least I've been able to link all of these seemingly unrelated names for those who are interested.... Best wishes, Carol Brill, Melbourne.