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Lost Voices Unearthed Stories
A History of the Mazlin and Anthony Families in Australia
This is where you can read each chapter as it is completed. The largely untold story of the Mazlin and Anthony families begins with Hannah Brown and Thomas Maslin, two convicts transported to New South Wales in the early 1800s. Their experiences, and those of their descendants, reflect the hardship and challenges that shaped Australia’s colonial past.
What follows gives voice to their lives.
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Chapter 1: Convict Origins
Traces the parallel journeys of Hannah Brown and Thomas Maslin from conviction in England to life in early colonial New South Wales. Amid hardship and punishment, a relationship forms and a child is born—marking the beginning of the Mazlin family line in Australia.
Chapter 2: Currency Lads and Lasses
This chapter follows the later life of Thomas Mazlin and his two partners, Catherine Cook and Anne Wing, as they raise children in the developing settlements of Sydney’s North Shore. Set against a backdrop of a shift from timber-getting to farming, it traces the challenges of raising a colonial-born generation in an emerging settler society.