Distant cousins met for the first time in Braidwood on the week-end (14th-15th March). They came from Pennant Hills, Warners Bay, Newcastle New South Wales, Rockhampton Queensland, Margaret River Western Australia, Mount Eliza Victoria and Molesworth Tasmania. Also in the photograph is Paul Hart, a Braidwood local.
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The re-union was organised by Hart descendents Mark Peasley from Victoria and Scott Harris from Queensland
The group revisited their family roots, including the ancestral Hart home at Jerrabattgulla, courtesy of present day owner, David O’Connell, as well as the local cemeteries and museum.
The original Harts, Michael and Mary, came to the colony as convicts. After serving their time at Cabramatta near Sydney they arrived in the Braidwood district in the 1840s. Free and looking for a better life they bought land at Jerrabattgulla and prospered. They had four children, Joseph who married Honora Kain, Mary who married Joseph George of Bendethera, Thomas who married Annie Monahan and Charlotte who married Thomas Clarke later to become a bushranger.
