This is our home page. From here you can go to:

• WHAT'S NEW where you'll find a list of additions and amendments.

• About Sid Hammell where you'll find a short bio

• About our ancestors which contains some genealogical material

• Convict tickets of leave, a thesis which examines the development of the law and practice governing convict tickets of leave in the colony of New South Wales from 1788 to 1850.

• Convict tidbits: some odds and ends.

• Free Selection of Land in NSW, an essay which examines free selection of land in the colony of New South Wales in the latter half of the 19th Century.

• Old Burial Grounds of Sydney.

• The Carters' Barracks, Sydney (built 1819).

• Index to "History of Araluen", an index I compiled of a short work written by Lindsay and Roger Thwaites and published by the Braidwood & District Historical Society

• HMS Glory, a pre-Dreadnought battleship of the Canopus Class, built in 1898.

• Some interesting web sites

• Glebe and Camperdown 1901 Census sub-districts

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