THE HISTORY OF FAMILY
Welcome
To our Family History website which explores our ancestors. The descendants and ancestors of Mary Hughes Place, Charles North Hunt, George Williams, Vincent George Williams and our Polish ancestors - Michal Born and Stanislawa Wolinksi.. Research has taken place over the last 35 years as we have tried to discover the lives of those who came before us. Many arrived at Sydney Cove, Australia in very different times. They came from England, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Poland.
NAMES RESEARCHED: HUGHES, WILLIAMS, PLACE, HUNT, WARNER, GOODALL, JOHNSON, KENNY, BORN, MINIAKOWSKI, WOLINSKI
Mary Hughes Place
Our first female ancestor in Australia was Mary Hughes Williams. This website will highlight the descendants of Mary Hughes Williams nee Place and her two known spouses, Charles North Hunt and George Williams and also deal with their ancestors researched over 35 years.. She was born Mary Hughes Place baptised on the 29th June 1763 at St Clement Danes, London, England to Thomas Place and Elizabeth Place nee Hughes.[i]
Thomas Place was the son of John Place (1696 -1765) and the great grandson of John Place, Stationer of London (1626 – 1674) and Elizabeth Fledgar (1634 – 1672) through their son Nicholas Place (1664 – 1726) and his wife Christian Smith.
Mary’s mother Elizabeth was born in 1734 (one of at least 8 children) and baptised 29 September in The Temple Church to John Hughes (1704 – 1776) Law Stationer of 2 Inner Temple Lane, the Temple, London and his wife Elizabeth. Images of Inner Temple Lane from 1850 to the right. The Hughes family lived in The Temple area from the 1700 through to the 1850’s. Many are buried in The Temple churchyard. Elizabeth Hughes was married twice before her marriage to Thomas Place – John Roberts (1725 – 1754) and Edward Holmes (1721 – 1756).
Mary died on the 12th November 1827, as Mary Hughes Williams at King Street, Parramatta, NSW, Australia, in the home of her son, Edward Hunt[ii]. She was sixty four years (64) of age and she was buried on the 14th November 1827 at Sandhill’s Cemetery, Sydney. The funeral was conducted by Reverend Richard Hill at St James, Anglican Church, Sydney, NSW.[iii]
Mary Hughes Williams arrived in Sydney colony via the Broxbornebury on the 28th July in 1814 as a free settler.[iv] On her death certificate she is referred to as Mary Hughes Williams, wife of George Williams, Hunter River. She arrived with her husband George Williams, their son Vincent George Williams, aged ten years and two of her sons by a previous marriage to Charles North Hunt an attorney from Holborn, Middlesex. The other two sons were Edward L. N. Hunt aged 22 and Frederick Hunt aged 15 years. The voyage to Australia in 1814 on a convict ship was a daunting and dangerous voyage.
BOOKS PUBLISHED
"THE WILLIAMS FAMILY OF AUSTRALIA"
by Suzanne Lotocki (Author), Waldemar Lotocki (Author) (Edition 2)
Available on www.amazon.com.au
The history of an Australian Family. This historical Family book examines the ancestors and the descendants of Mary Hughes Place (1763 – 1827), Charles North Hunt (1765 – 1811) and George Williams (1760 – 1838). George and Mary Williams arrived in Australia on the Broxbornebury ship in 1814 as Free Settlers. He was a cabinet maker and printer by trade and on arrival in Sydney worked on the Sydney Gazette until he was unfairly dismissed by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. George Williams was instrumental in the Bigges Report travelling to England to give evidence against Macquarie and he was one of the main witnesses in the Philo Free case brought against Lachlan Macquarie’s secretary, Campbell. Travelling with George and Mary to Sydney Cove were Mary’s two sons by a previous marriage to attorney Charles North Hunt, Edward and Frederick Hunt and their son Vincent George Williams. The descendants of Mary number in the thousands and this book traces those descendants as they settled in Australia making significant contributions to a developing new country.
"A STORMY PASSAGE" (Edition 2)
by Suzanne Lotocki (Author), Waldemar Lotocki (Author)
Available on www.amazon.com.au
A Stormy Passage" is a transcription of the Diary written by Jeffery Hart Bent during his voyage to Australia on the convict ship "Broxbornebury" in 1814. It provides a fascinating description of the conditions on board the Broxbornebury that convicts and passengers endured, the dangers of the voyage and gives a real insight into the personality of Jeffery Hart Bent who became a Judge of the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature in the new colony of NSW in 1814.
"THE WARNER FAMILY OF AUSTRALIA" (Edition 2)
by Suzanne Lotocki (Author), Waldemar Lotocki (Author)
Available on www.amazon.com.au
The Story of Lieutenant Jonathan Warner and his family. Lieutenant Jonathan Warner arrived in Australia on the Orpheus in September of 1826 as part of the NSW Royal Veteran Corps. Accompanying him were his wife, Mary Warner nee Dunkley and four of their children – James, Augusta, Jonathan and William Warner. Lieutenant Warner served in his military capacity as Assistant Surveyor of Roads and Police Magistrate in the Wisemans Ferry District, then as Police Magistrate at Newcastle, and Police Magistrate of Brisbane Waters. He had served in the British Military since the age of fourteen. He secured a grant at Lake Macquarie and was one of the first settlers in this area. The site of his home “Biddaba” and the original land grant was named after him – Warners Bay. Jonathan and Mary Warner had ten children and their descendants number in the thousands. The family were settlers in a wild and uncivilised land where they carved successful lives for their children and their children’s children. This is the story of an Australian family primarily in colour, inclusive of genealogical details, primary anecdotal sources and historical research.
"POLISH BORN AUSTRALIAN MADE"
Waldemar Lotocki (Author) & Suzanne Lotocki (Author)
Available on www.amazon.com.au
The is the story of of s Polish born child from 1945 until the end of his tour of duty as an Australian conscript in the war zone of Vietnam in 1968. Waldemar Andrzej Lotocki was born in 1945 in Ladhe, East Germany in war-torn Europe. A displaced person, as a result of the decimation of Poland and the apparent loss of all Polish relatives in World War 2, he with his mother,came to Australia 1950. His mother had been taken off the streets of Poland in 1942 and shipped to Germany to work in a slave labour camp. He experienced the first 5 years of his life in camps in Europe and then the life of a migrant child and teenager in a new country. He was conscripted into the Australian Army in 1966 in his twentieth year. Conscription was conducted by marble numbers in a barrel – a form of Lotto, based on birthday dates. He entered the Australian Army in 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria, and served in Vietnam with the infantry of 7RAR. Delta Company in Vietnam.
"THE DIRECTOR IN COMMUNITY THEATRE"
Suzanne Lotocki (Author) & Waldemar Lotocki (Author)
Available on www.amazon.com.au
The Director in Community Theatre traces the journey of Directors and administrators in the Australian Community Theatre Arts sector. It is an illustrated history that covers many experiences that a director has as they conceptulize ideas and form these ideas into full show production. The book also discusses expectations that a director will meet in the Community Arts field and offers personal anecdotal stories of a hobby lasting nearly 50 year.
THE DELTA MEN
By Waldemar Lotocki
Available on www.amazon.com.au
The Delta Men: 7RAR D Company Vietnam 1967 - 1968
Paperback – 30 May 2023
by Waldemar Lotocki (Author), Suzanne Lotocki (Editor)
What really happened in Vietnam? This book describes the day to day action of The First Tour of 7RAR Delta Men from 1967 – 1968. The journey of these men through ever present dangers includes intricately detailed maps of their operations, searches and ambushes in their tactical areas of responsibilities. They walked hundreds of miles through intensely thick jungles and crossed fast flowing rivers to search out the clever and elusive enemy in an Asian country laced with mines, infested with leeches and mosquitoes and with bullets, bombs and rockets seemingly appearing from everywhere at any time. Even from “Friendly Fire”. Every day outside, and even, inside the wire they faced death or dreadful injuries. Read personal accounts and view hundreds of photographs taken by the men and official war photographers during this tour. The courage and great physical strength of the Delta Men, many of them young conscripts, and their ability to deal with a relentless enemy in a relentless conflict of over 320 days in the field is confronting and overwhelming at times.