The Kidd Family
The Chapters
The history divides into branches — each with its own trades, its own journeys, its own joys and griefs. Follow them in order, or wander as you please.
The Jeffries Line
Saddlery, Gold & Civic Life
Archibald Joseph Jeffries and Mary Jane Mills cross the Blue Mountains to build a saddlery and a name in booming Bathurst.
In the writingThe Robens Lineage
Anchorage in Bathurst
The marriage of Mary Rebecca Jane Jeffries and Thomas Robens in 1871 founded one of the most resilient branches of the family — twelve children whose lives ran from steady city trades to a thousand-mile walk across a continent.
Read the chapterEthel’s Generation
The Children in the Portrait
Ethel, Alfred, Pearl, Muriel and Lilian — the generation photographed beside their blind great-grandfather, carrying the line into the twentieth century.
In the writingThe Kidd Family
Into Living Memory
The threads of Jeffries and Robens gather into the Kidd family of today.
In the writingMore chapters are being gathered from civil records, electoral rolls, and family memory.