When James Neale, a Private in the 4th (King’s Own) Regiment of Foot boarded the copper-fastened teak convict ship Jane in Deptford, he was bound for New South Wales. Family lore says he was making a quick escape from the stormy seas of his second marriage. Little could he know that even more troubled waters…
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Barbaric Beauty
There’s something about Norfolk Island that keeps drawing me in. It’s a beautiful speck in the ocean with a frighteningly murderous past and its like there’s a big Norfolk Magnet pointing right at me, genetically speaking. It starts with James Neale, my 3x great grandfather. He was a British Redcoat who guarded convicts. He ‘met…
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