Seeking the Ancestors: A Father and Son Road Trip Episode 6

AUSTRALIA'S COLONIAL HISTORY - BUILDING A NATION
Episode 6 of A FATHER AND SON ROAD TRIP – SEEKING THE ANCESTORS is the final episode. Gerard and Roger visit Tallawang, ‘17 Miles from Gulgong’, where James Patrick and Mary Jane Wilson established their farm in 1878. Tallawang was a new settlement. Their story was like that of thousands of second-generation Australians who wanted to establish themselves in a nation just on one hundred years old. Like all ‘selectors,’ they committed themselves to long hours of backbreaking work, often just to stay alive. But their work and endurance were the backbone of the new nation called Australia. Without these ordinary, determined, self-sacrificing people, Australia would not have become the successful nation it is. James Patrick and Mary Jane were the son and daughter of convict fathers from London and Manchester and free-settler mothers from Wiltshire.