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Why 'Shadwell'?
Why have I chosen the name 'Shadwell Genealogical Services' for my enterprise? Mount Shadwell is a volcanic cone 'mountain' on the southern slopes of which sits the town of Mortlake in south-west Victoria. My maternal great-great-grandparents - Cathcarts, Mathesons and Louttits - settled in the Mortlake district - at Mortlake, Ellerslie and East Framlingham - in the 1850s and 1860s. I have spent much of my life at Mortlake where I own a house named 'Gilgad', after Gilgad in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, home of my Cathcart ancestors.
Mt Shadwell, Mortlake, Victoria
My Cathcarts' ancestral home, Gilgad, County Antrim
My 'Gilgad', Mortlake, Victoria |
