The Family Detective

I've been contemplating turning my bedroom wall into something resembling a police detective's wall. Post it notes covering it in an attempt to get a visual image of my family history. I'm a visual person, and find sometimes I don't get all the facts right because I haven't got a great grasp on the information. Today I used Timeglider to make a family time line of Henry Laing & Sarah Weatherstone. Already by doing this I realised I had the birth or death dates of two of his children out of date. It's a handy tool and I'm keen to use it to test out some ideas such as comparing if two people were in the same area at the same time etc. While Timeglider can cost money, I've made the following timeline just using the free version. Hope you find this helpful.

Henry Laing was the first of "us" to come to Australia, aboard the convict ship " Isabella " in September 1818. Born Wednesday, September 22, 1794, Henry Laing grew up in the shadows of Edinburgh Castle. His father John Laing & mother Elizabeth (nee Annan) were cowfeeders who lived near the junction of Fountainbridge & Thornybauk Roads. They had at least 4 children, Lillias (who married Charles Hunt), William, James and Elizabeth (who married William Atkien and continued to live in Thornybauk Road as a cowfeeder after her parent's & husband's death). As an adult, Henry was 5"5" tall with a ruddy complexion, pocked skin, brown hair and hazel eyes. At around the age of 21 Henry moved out of his parents home to live with a woman named Mary Graham. They shared a room in Curries Close which was in the cattle market district of Edinburgh known as the "grass market". Of the evening of or around May 26th, 1817 Henry reci...