Welcome to Kevin's Family - Online History Site. The site has grown beyond
what I had originally intended to now include Australian history
and Australiana, as well as other areas of history personally
interesting to me. My research into my family history has resulted
in the gathering of much historical information regarding Australia,
so I thought that this would give some useful background information
regarding my family's history in Australia.
I have taken myself
as the starting point of this family history site - not that
I am the most important person in my family, but because this
is my own personal web site and I need somewhere to start. I
am concerned to share information regarding myself with whoever
may be interested and also to provide something of a history
for the Lilley (my mother's side) and Matthews (my father's
side) families. This is so, both back and forward of the date
April 6, 2002, when I began to build this site. These are not
the only families covered by this site, for there are many more
that play a vital role in my family's history both as relatives
and friends.
The site will grow
to include all manner of historically relevant materials, including
a family history book (including family tree information), photos, documents, etc. With this in mind I would
like to ask that if anyone has anything that they think might
be relevant to this site to please pass it on for possible inclusion.
This may be done by emailing me at nrbcpastorkev@yahoo.com.au If you aren't sure whether it would be of
interest, please pass it on anyway. Even things of a background
interest will be helpful (eg history of towns in which people
lived, etc).
This site is dedicated
to the memory of those who have gone before, including those
of the Lilley, Jenkinson, Baggs, Blanch, Matthews, Randall and
Webb families, plus many more. Before he died, my grandfather
(Arthur John Matthews) asked me to create a 'Matthews museum.'
This then is that museum in a manner slightly different to what
he thought likely at the time. This site is especially dedicated
to him and his desire for such a thing.
If you have some familial
relationship to the Lilley or Matthews family as mentioned on
this site, or to those mentioned in ancestral comments, etc,
I ask you to please consider joining The Lilley Family Mail Group or The Matthews Family Mail Group. These are places where you may perhaps be
able to communicate with others in the family and share historical
references and resources with one another. You may even be placed
into contact with one another for the first time in a long time.
There is even the facility for sharing photos with one another.
