Poor Man's Preacher - Thomas Gainford
I have been agonizing over how to write about Week 1's prompt for National Family History Month. At first, I was going to write about the McLoughlin family in Orange. Whilst not in Surry Hills, they were Irish Catholics. But the pickings were slim in terms of stories...so I turned to other sources. I am sure stories do exist- I just couldn't find them or make them stick, so to speak. Going through my family records I noticed that a couple of my ancestors were married in Surry Hills so I decided to pursue that angle instead. Introducing George Henry Carrett and Sarah Stores . These two are effectively my paternal grandmother's paternal grandparents - got that? Or my great-great-grandparents on my father's side of the family. So - who were George Henry Carrett and Sarah Stores? Well, according to their marriage certificate, George was a bachelor. He was 21 years old and born in England and his occupation was bricklayer. His parents...