From Camberwell to Shetland in search of my family s story
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By Steve Foley
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All my life I had been conscious of an ancestral connection to Shetland, but like many Australians of my generation, I had only a few fragments to assemble the jigsaw that was my Scottish heritage.
I knew that my great-grandfather, William Pole Williamson, had been born in Lerwick in 1854; that he and his older brother had relocated with their father to Edinburgh where, I was told, they shortened their surname to Williams.