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HAFS AGM 2026 – 7 Nov 2026 at 11:30-3:30pm
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The Family Tree of Tom White Melville Winder
by Davina Best At our AGM in November 2025, Peter Sherlock gave an entertaining description of how we found who the parents of Tom White Melville Winder using a combination of genetic DNA research and traditional archival work. If you missed the details, Tom White Melville Winder was born in Cambridge in 1787 as plain…
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Ellen Johnson and Mary Lyster – a DNA discovery
by Davina Best For more than 25 years, Peter Sherlock has argued that Ellen Johnson was the biological sister of Mary Lyster. They were most likely the children of two convicts: John Lyster (d 1836), convicted in London and transported on the “Ganges” in 1796; and Margaret Mooney (d 1815), convicted in Derry and transported…
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Two Early Australian Sisters – Ellen Johnson Winder & Mary Lister Dodds
By Peter Sherlock [Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the HAFS Journal of May 2000 – issue 5-3. Please refer to the journal to see the signatures of Tom Winder, Ellen Johnstone, James Dodds and John Leister.] Perhaps the most mysterious person amongst the ‘Associated Families’ of the Hungerford Society, at least in its…