Hi Wellington. I have been studying everything and anything I can possibly find on my ancestors over the past few months and it takes me deep inside the history of your town Wellington, NSW and the surrounding areas.
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My ancestors are Mr Charles Mills and Mrs Ellen Mills, late of Stuart Town. They are both buried in that town along with one of their sons.
Charles and Ellen are my great, great grandparents.
My other ancestors are Mrs Rachael Mills (nee England) and Mr John Mills, late of Bakers Swamp. Rachael and John are my great grandparents. Rachael is buried in Wellington cemetery and John is in North Rocks, NSW cemetery.
Mr Sidney England and Mrs Leah England, late of Bakers Swamp, are my other great, great grandparents. They are both in Wellington cemetery, buried near a lot of my other ancestors.
My grandparents are Mr Eugene Askew and Mrs Florence Askew (nee Mills), late of Bakers Swamp. They are both in Mays Hill cemetery, NSW.
After studying my ancestors in your town of Wellington, and finding out what they actually all got up to in their days there, I am extremely proud and honoured to be related to every single one of them.
My heart does hurt when I read that quite a few died as either babies, or drowned as children, and some died from illnesses that we are all immunised against these days.
To my ancestors, the Englands and the Mills, God bless everyone of you, and rest in peace.
To my living relatives who live in Wellington, and surrounds, what amazing, interesting and hard working people, they all were, every one of them.
There was [sic] so many other amazing, hard working and interesting people to your area, in the 1800s, 1900s and lots still there to this day.
Please keep the wall and the plaque and the fence, and planting trees without concrete around them sounds good.
Installing a few more plaques at the base of these trees, with the names of more people, who contributed to that area, would certainly keep all their spirits alive, and make all the hard work they did recognised.
My great, great grandmother Mrs Ellen Mills said, "Herself and my great, great grandfather Mr Charles Mills were held up by Ben Hall the bushranger and his cronies."
That would have to deserve a plaque on its own.
Ms Kim Wolfenden
Tully, QLD
