This site provides some information about members of the Knowles family from  Hampshire UK, the Gammell family from Tipperary Ireland, the Douzans family  from Banyuls sur mer Pyrenees Orientales France, the Wright family from  Yorkshire UK, and others, as they moved southward in the 19th century, to New  Caledonia, New Zealand and Australia.

Most dates and places cited are from registered bmd certificates or census  images. Some are derived from the researches of other genealogists to whom I am  most grateful.

There are a lot of stories here, most of which are unknown and can never be  told. This work of identifying the people who are my family is meant to be the  prelude to telling what stories I can.