Two hundred years ago, or thereabouts, an illiterate convict ploughman named James Goodson began sowing the seeds of a dynasty; first in poverty-stricken despair in Essex, and then in the rich and fertile north of Van Diemen’s Land, at Windermere on the banks of the River Tamar.

Tamar Seed is a collection of family stories and memories, written by descendants of James Goodson’s two marriages; descendants of his ten children and 47 grandchildren. Their stories will lead you along the banks of the River Tamar and beyond. From Native Point to nearby Mount Direction. From Beaconsfield to the islands in the Bass Strait. From Launceston across the Bass Strait to mainland Victoria. From Gravelly Beach across the Tasman Sea to Waimate and Oamaru in New Zealand’s south.

Come with the family on a journey ‒ from one man’s 19th century convict beginnings, to the 21st century, where countless Goodson descendants span the globe.

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