Genealogy
Get to know your ancestral roots.
Interested in knowing your genealogy? Australian Royalty website gives you the chance to do that. It contains the database of colonial Australians, their ancestors and the descendants and gives you the chance to discover your genealogy. This website was initially developed to check the genealogy of my family and see their convict ancestry. It was soon developed further, and I interconnected many convicts, indigenous, and free immigrant families. It has continued to grow in leaps and bounds, and now, I can add anyone who fits my primary focus into the database. The primary focus is individuals who lived in New South Wales between 1788 and 1900.
The website is free to use, and you can use the information you find on it in any manner that pleases you. There is no guarantee that the information on it will be 100% accurate. Therefore, it would be best if you do your own research to double-check anything you use. I would very much appreciate being quoted as the source of anything you publish that has been sourced from my site.
The name, Australian Royalty was derived from a quip made by jack Thompson when he was researching his own ancestors on the Television program, “Who do you think you are?” He jokingly said that unlike in the past, having convict ancestors these days gives the descendants an Australian royalty status. It was this statement that influenced the title given to the genealogy website.
My father and grandfather, Leonard Charles Purnell and Simon Peter Purnell would never have had that idea. It was only after I began to research my family that I discovered that my father was the great-grandson of William Purnell from Gloucestershire England who was sentenced to seven years transportation for stealing and he arrived in New South Wales aboard the convict ship Larkins in 1817.
You can get your family included in the website database or suggest corrections by getting in touch with us. If you also have stories and photos that you would like to be on the website, you can submit that too. We accept word-processed documents, PDF, posted documentation, images in a format such as JPG, and Gedcom files. We always endeavour to document and credit all our sources.
You can explore the database to see everyone on it by using the Lists button and if you have a particular family name in mind, just use the search button.
For privacy reasons, information about people who are still alive is suppressed.
If you use this website to find your family connection, I hope it will serve your current family and descendants in discovering their heritage. We encourage individual contributions from people who find their family connections here to further spur the growth of the website and make sure the information on it is more comprehensive.