Researching my tree back to middle 1600s in my direct line in some instances.
I have found about 6 convicts sent to Australia, Also a black African slave,drunks and other things that I'm aware of, I'm sure some of them would have done some unsavoury things that I don't know about.
However i am very proud to say their all mine and in more than any of them I'm especially proud of the slave that eventually became a free man and made his mark in the world, i must say that is where i got my olive skin from and i consider that it went really well with all that English influence over the next 9 generations, I'm the last of my direct line to still show a small part of my African ancestry,see my avatar where I'm holding my son in sailors hats.
I have found about 6 convicts sent to Australia, Also a black African slave,drunks and other things that I'm aware of, I'm sure some of them would have done some unsavoury things that I don't know about.
However i am very proud to say their all mine and in more than any of them I'm especially proud of the slave that eventually became a free man and made his mark in the world, i must say that is where i got my olive skin from and i consider that it went really well with all that English influence over the next 9 generations, I'm the last of my direct line to still show a small part of my African ancestry,see my avatar where I'm holding my son in sailors hats.