Hi Everyone This is my first posting to this List. My G-G-Grandparents were Thomas and Hannah Smith and they have many descendents beside myself living in S-E Queensland. The Birtsmorton Smiths were a family of Thatchers I believe. Thomas, son of William, was born Eldersfield. He married (1) Emma Symonds. children -- Mary and George, christened Berrow. George married Eliza Tainton 1863 Thomas married (2) Hannah Freeman, daughter of John Freeman, 1838 Family, all said to have been christened Birtsmorton ----- Ann, 1840 John Robertson 1843, married Adelaide Symonds David, 1845, married Emma James Harriet, 1847, married George Holbrock Thomas, 1848, married Selina James Wilson, 1851, married Emma Jane Vaughan Edward, 1853 Alfred, 1855. Married Elizabeth Rollins 1871 ( my g-grandparents) Elizabeth 1857 Emma 1859 Hannah, 1861 Henry 1863, married Jane Callaghan Qld Thomas Snr died 1869 and soon after several members of the family went to America to work, Alfred and Edward in cotton mills, Henry and mother Hannah lived in Montville, Connecticut. They returned to England and by 1878, Alfred, Edward, Henry and their mother had arrived in Qld, followed later by David. They settled in Redland Bay but by the early 1890's all 4 brothers and the mother had selected agricultural land on the Blackall Range where they became pioneers of the villages Mapleton and Montville. Edward returned to Birtsmorton after the death of his mother in 1901 and lived with Sarah Ann Smith, daughter of George until his death in 1936. It would be wonderful to make contact with fellow descendants but we would all be grateful for any additional information, or corrections to our history. Regards Maureen from sunny Queensland

I must not be reading this name right. I have googled and checked Genuki. Does anyone know what Caston Hackett could be? It is given as a birth location for John Lilly in Staple Hill on the 1851 census. Thanks Jenn