Please hit the link / photo below to view some photos taken of historic places we visited on 22nd July 2008.
The small town of Callington and surrounding area
Of the cemetery where my Great grandfather George Williams was laid to rest in 1866
Of the ruins of the stone home he built on his new farm shortly before his early accidental death........... these are the photos toward the end of the album.
Retracing steps in history
Our visit to historic Callington by my wife Colleen , my sister Maureen, cousin Ralf and myself (Glen)
Callington a small rural town where my great grand parents George and Elizabeth Williams took up farming land shortly after their arrival in Australia during the 1850s
Callington a former copper mining town beside the Bremer River, in early days there was five mines in the district and was know as "The Cornwall of the Colony".
The first copper smelter was built in the area in 1848 which was the first commercially successful smelter in Australia.
Dear Ancestor,
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Upright and all alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
On local slate for stone
It reaches out to all who care
It is to late to mourn
You did not know that I exist
You died before I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled,
So many years before
Spreads out among the ones you left,
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come and visit you.
