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Dear John, Yes, in reply to your story re commerce, I must say that it is a true picture of all those who went before me in the U.K. and Australia. Robert Bostock 1784-1847 was sent to Sydney (convicted slaver) in 1814. He was pardoned 1815 and was immediately in business as a merchant. I have long listings of the extensive array of goods that he sold from his home in Hunter Street Sydney. He returned to U.K. in 1817 after being married in 1816 to Rachael Rafferty. He returned to Tasmania in 1821 and was put in charge of the Commissiariat Stores at the Hobart Wharf. By 1822 he had built his own Bond Store, which he sold a few years later to the Treasury Department of the V.D.L. Government. Although Robert chose, it seems, to live out his life in a very quiet way, five of his sons, who departed to Warrnambool in Western Victoria, served on the local council and were pastoralists and agents in the region. Their descendants even served in high office in Victoria and Queensland. My forbear George Bostock built the Flour Mill at Mortlake,Victoria in 1856 and previously owned the first Bond Store at Lady Bay and the Flour Mill on Cannon Hill at Warrnambool. So, the enterprise followed through in the family for many generations. Just a little to add to the thread of this forum. Thelma (Bostock) Birrell
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