Introduction

My name is Nick Freeman and I live in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.  This website represents a sample of the family tree research undertaken by different branches of the family in recent years. It traces a number of families who emigrated to Australia from England and Scotland in the mid nineteenth century. The main two branches of the family are the Freeman line who trace their ancestry to the town of Cholsey in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) and the Wilkin line who were Cornish miners from a town called St Agnes.

New stuff

The site has been updated in March 2006. The main new material includes biographies of the early immigrants to Australia in the Arrivals section. An updated biography of convict Charles Bailey in the Convict section and a new section linked below called 'Gold Fever' documenting Saville and Jones ancestors involvement in the Victorian Goldrush

Port Phillip docks, Melbourne 1858

Acknowledgements

The research on this website has been the work of many individuals