The Baron of Yarramalong

You briefly met my great grandfather William Hill in an earlier post. William Hill was the son of an Irishman named William Hill, the cousin of William Hill, the father of (George) William Hill and the grandfather of… you guessed it, William Hill. In 1937, one of the Williams featured in a handful of news…

The pioneers of Yarramalong

How often can any of us ever say we were ‘the first’ to do something? My 3x great grandparents were one of three families who were the first to ever live in the Australian town of Yarramalong. What an amazing ‘first’. In 1852 Alexander and Elizabeth Hill of Antrim Ireland, paid £8 to board the…