First European Ancestors to Arrive in Australia

William Evans arrived as a convict on the "General Stewart" in 1818 aged 15 years. He was born in Wales. He eventually settled on the South Coast of New South Wales where he married a Budawang girl Mary Ann Stewart.

William Buckley came to Australia in the 1850s. He moved to the Cornish settlement at Byng so he was probably from Cornwall. He married Grace Jenkins who arrived in Australia from Gwennap, Cornwall with her family aged 11 years in 1849.

Matilda Proctor arrived in 1886 from Britain aged 17. She married Charles Buckley who was born at the Cornish settlement near Orange.

Charles Nicholson was probably born in Britain. He was a convict overseer at Moruya. He had a baby with a local girl of the Budawang tribe called Catherine and then married Jane Brown in 1837. Jane was born near Moruya.

In this family history I have attempted to show some of the relationships among the Aboriginal families Nicholson, Brown, Evans, Brook, Goodsell, Licey, Timbery, Stewart and Bindoff.

Thanks to Cathy Dunn, Historian, who assisted with the Nicholson and Evans families from the South Coast.

Bindoff Family History World War 1

The grandsons of Jane Brown, of the Budawang tribe of Narrawallee,sons of her daughter Phoebe Alice and Alfred
 Bindoff, together with their father, enlisted for World War 1. Lance Corporal Harold Bindoff of the 19th Battalion AIF was wounded in action in France but returned to Australia. Private Edgar Bindoff of the 1st Battalion 4th Reinforcements was fatally wounded at Lone Pine, Gallipoli in September 1915. Private David Bindoff of the 19th Battalion AIF was killed at the Battle of Somme on 27th July 1916.