Twigs of a Tree A Family Tale: From a priest defrocked by the French revolution to English pioneering on the Pampas: connecting Walkers, Cattys, Goodbodys, Dysons, Adams, Eggars, Bradys and many more.This is a family story of 19th century migration, centered on an ancestor whose sense of adventure carried him to the furthest corners of the earth. Travelling from England to the gold fields of New Zealand and on to the Pampas of Argentina, John George Walker eventually, after some forty years, returned home. For him and his family, the general catastrophe of the First World War turned into personal tragedy by claiming the lives of two of his three surviving sons. |
Contents
Beginnings And A First Long Journey | 1 |
RowingAnd Sailing Away | 27 |
The French Connection | 37 |
The Adventures Of A Surgeon | 56 |
Go South Young Man | 73 |
On The Indian Frontier | 83 |
Life And Death By The Willows | 97 |
Alice In Macholand | 117 |
Reality And Literary Licence | 166 |
Between Boom And Bust | 172 |
Old England New Argentina | 180 |
Childrens Paradise | 190 |
Briton Boers And Bullets | 208 |
The English Tower | 226 |
Death In The Trenches | 238 |
Youth Between The Wars | 272 |
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Twigs of a Tree a Family Tale: From a Priest Defrocked by the French ... Lin Widmann No preview available - 2012 |
Twigs of a Tree a Family Tale: From a Priest Defrocked by the French ... Lin Widmann No preview available - 2012 |
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Alice Alice Walker Alice's Ambrière Ann Christie Argentina arrived attack Bahia Bahía Blanca Barbara Barber became Boer British Briton Briton Walker brother Buenos Aires Calfucurá camp Captain cattle Catty Catty's Charles Christie colonists colony cousin daughter death describes Diana died Dyson Elinor England English Eric estancia eventually Facón Facón Chico farm father France Frederick Adam Frederick Adam Catty French friends frontier gauchos George Catty George reid Goodbody Goodhall Harold Harold Saxon Henry Edwards horses Indians Indio Rico JG Walker JG's John Briton John George Walker killed land later leagues letters lived London Malón managed Mapuches married Melrose Michel Talma military Molly months mother Noreen Norman Pampas passengers Patrick reid returned river Rojas Lagarde Sauce seems settlers sheep ship sister South Spanish Susana Talma Tandil Teddington tells territory took town Venado Tuerto wife William women writes young Zealand