Our Family Genealogy Pages

Sale Hotel, designed by Charles Boykett, and still licensed.
Photo Credit: RACV Magazine May 2016.

Main Feature

1853. A widower of 48, his two unmarried sisters, three sons, two of whom were married with sons, travelled from England to Adelaide in a ship only 50 metres long, braving storms and a mutiny, to start a new life in a land of opportunity. This is the story of that family.

Feature Articles

Introductory The background of the Boyketts who came to Australia, and why they came.

Marriages Thomas married twice in England. It was only recently that we found out about his second wife and their daughter.

Church Rates; Legal Practice Not only a lawyer; a practising Nonconformist and political activist.

Francis Boykett Thomas's brother Francis (born 1812, died 1899) appears to have been very prominent in banking and company directorships

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