About Lucas Reed Howard Payne Villa collection
Please sign in to see more. The Reed Clan were some of the first Fleet to arrive in Tasmania coming from Ireland Decendants of the Lucas And Gascoigne Clan came from England as convicts Olivia gascoigne was sentenced to death by hanging for her part in an alledged theft,However the judge decided to allow her to go to Norfolk island for her sentance as he wanted to leave the country at the time and wanted it dealt with those days you had to fight hard to prove your innocence you were guilty until you could prove otherwise On arrival to norfolk Olivia met and married Nathanial Lucas and had 16 children the story goes that third cousins intermarried to increase the population,In 1842 OLivia Lucas met and married Richard Reed they had 3 children henry Eliza and Richard this richard was my grandfather he married Bridget Howard and my mother Hilda was born she married Horace Holland Payne from Capel southwest of perth wa and they had 10 children i am the baby of the family i married Philip Arnold have 2 sons 13 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren so on it goes
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