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This photo shows my mother's family at the front of Auntie Lucy and Uncle Hugh's house in Ascotvale, Melbourne, around 1955. My mother Jean is standing in the back row, far left, next to her brother Hugh. I am sitting on the ground, far left. Phoebe (Nanna, Mum's mother) is standing in the centre wearing a floral dress. My father Noel is standing in the back row holding a terrier dog. Auntie Lucy (far right) is holding a child. My mother and cousins told me a story that our great grandmother Hannah Brown was an Aboriginal woman who lived around Fryerstown, Victoria, a story later confirmed by cousins Tony and Shane Higgins who found this website and initiated re-connection between our estranged families.

This photo shows my father's family in Kallista, Victoria, around 1926. My grandparents, Tom Roberts and Lillian Williamson, designed the house and garden in Royle avenue and called the place Talisman. Tom took this photo in the back garden. My father Noel is sitting far left, beside his father Ca (Caleb). Noel's younger brother Dick is in the centre, held by their mother Nora. Lillie sits beside them on the right. From age five to nine I lived at Talisman with Mum, Noel and Nadya, surrounded by art by Tom and Lillie. Noel would tell us stories about them. The story of the artist Tom Roberts is well known. Less well know is the story of Lillian Williamson: