A few weeks ago, I wrote a guest blog on my trip to Ireland in May looking for my Irish ancestors. This time I have followed it up with a trip around Northern and Central Queensland in July following in ancestral footsteps here. I was fortunate to have a paper accepted at the Australian Historical Association conference in Townsville which gave me the opportunity to head north. My great grandfather, Herbert William White from Wiltshire, England arrived in Townsville in … Continue reading