On the 6th of June 1859, Queen Victoria did the necessary to separate the Colony of Queensland from the Colony of New South Wales. No matter that the papers proclaiming this did not arrive in Brisbane until 10th December of that year, Queensland will officially be 150 years old in June of this year. (I've always wanted Queensland Day to be celebrated on my birthday, December 10!)
Some of my forebears arrived before the magic date of separation; the Brightwell family (arrived 1857) and a young newly married couple, William and Mary Carr (arrived 1848), are on my mother's direct line of ancestry.
Their stories will slowly make their way into this blog over the next few months.
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