PALIN
My Palin family came from Adbaston Staffordshire England. I first Ancestor is John Palin born c 1783. He married Mary Furber 1810.
She was the daughter of James Furber and Elizabeth Harris.
Then my GGG Grandfather William Palin married Elizabeth Reesce in 1837. The family lived at Knighton, Adbaston, Brosley and Sherriffhales in Salop. Samuel Reece had a Inn in Salop. I can not find any record of him.
Elizabeth Palin died in 1842 after her death William came to Australia with his three children on board the Orotor in 1849 arriving in South Australia.
William  and Mary Ann Palin were twins born 1839 and Emma Palin. The family lived in Starthalbyn before moving to Maitland. William Palin had land at Maitland.
William Palin Senior died in Moonta 1898.
William Palin Jun married Clara Lloyd and he died on the 7th May 1874in Moonta also. Clara remarried David Flintoff.
Clara came to Australia with her parents James Lloyd and Margaret Perkins. Also her brother Thomas Lloyd from Lugwardine Hereford.
My grandfather Thomas William Palin was born at Ballarat Vic in 1861.
He was the only child born in Vic as his father went down to the gold rush.
Thomas William Palin married Annie Valintine Lee the daughter of William Lee and Mary Walmsley of Gawler. William Lee was born 1818 in Stoneleigh Warwickshire England and his family were tailors.Thomas and Annie came to Broken Hill around 1892 where Thomas worked on the Silverton Tramway company. He was the first man killed on the Silverton Tramway in Broken Hill in 1916. Both Annie and Thomas are buried in Broken Hill. My Nana Clara Maud Palin married Samuel Sanderson.
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