0:00:00 > 0:00:04Here we go. Now, this is where the red carpet begins
0:00:04 > 0:00:06and as you can see it's treachery.
0:00:06 > 0:00:11Mind yourself. And that brings us to the backstage area.
0:00:11 > 0:00:14This is Strictly Come Dancing Live.
0:00:15 > 0:00:21Joy of joy, my favourite thing, a feather fan. Look at that!
0:00:23 > 0:00:27Fantastic! Showbiz everywhere and then we enter,
0:00:27 > 0:00:31and as you can see, we make our way down these wonderful stairs.
0:00:33 > 0:00:37And you can feel and breathe the electricity in the room.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46Dancer and choreographer Craig Revel Horwood is best known
0:00:46 > 0:00:50for his straight talking as a judge on the hit TV series
0:00:50 > 0:00:51Strictly Come Dancing.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55..Anywhere near a four. You were mincing around that stage,
0:00:55 > 0:01:01darling, like you were in an episode of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05Craig has lived and worked in Britain for 26 years,
0:01:05 > 0:01:07but he was born in Australia.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09His father, Phillip Revel Horwood
0:01:09 > 0:01:11was an officer in the Australian Navy.
0:01:14 > 0:01:21My father, unfortunately, and quite sadly, died just over a year ago.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Now, all the questions I should have asked him
0:01:24 > 0:01:26about our family was too late.
0:01:26 > 0:01:32It really set my mind to thinking to I'd love to know more.
0:01:32 > 0:01:37The only thing I really know are my immediate grandparents.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41My father's side of the family intrigued me the most
0:01:41 > 0:01:45because I think I get a few more traits from them,
0:01:45 > 0:01:50particularly my grandfather, Revel. And we called him Moza,
0:01:50 > 0:01:53because he was such a character, a bit of a clown.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55And my grandmother, Phonse.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59Her real name's Phyllis, a very loving, a very quiet
0:01:59 > 0:02:00and unassuming lady.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04I only know that she was in an orphanage for some reason.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06I would love to know her family history.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12I often wonder because I was the only person out of my family
0:02:12 > 0:02:16really to take up anything theatrical.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19I would love to know that there might be some entertainer
0:02:19 > 0:02:21or something like that in my past.
0:02:23 > 0:02:29I'm hoping to find out something wonderful about my blood line.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32Maybe they did something amazing!
0:03:08 > 0:03:10Craig has flown to Melbourne,
0:03:10 > 0:03:14not far from his family's home in the city of Ballarat.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17He's on his way to see his mother, Bev, and sister, Sue.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21I do love Australia.
0:03:21 > 0:03:22I love coming back.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26This is, of course, the first time that I've been to Ballarat
0:03:26 > 0:03:32since my father died and it does evoke all the fond memories.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36I have a wonderful sister, Sue,
0:03:36 > 0:03:39who has always been interested in family history and tree
0:03:39 > 0:03:43and all of that stuff. She's done a bit of digging around.
0:03:43 > 0:03:48She thinks we were related to a convict that came out from England.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52I think she'd be really able to point me in the right direction.
0:03:53 > 0:03:58Craig, his brother and three sisters were raised in the Ballarat suburbs.
0:03:59 > 0:04:03This is my old neighbourhood, called Brown Hill, Ballarat.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05And this is my mum's home.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08It's very sweet and very Australiana.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12I love that. I love the veranda, it's just gorgeous
0:04:12 > 0:04:15and here we go, I'm home!
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Knock, knock, knock.
0:04:20 > 0:04:21Coming, in coming.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24- Who's this then?- Me.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Hello, little brother.
0:04:26 > 0:04:27Long-lost brother.
0:04:27 > 0:04:28- Hello.- Hello.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31- How are you?- You look lovely. - Thank you.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35- Gorgeous.- You look lovely as well. - Gorgeous.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38- Oh, look!- The first ever show you were in.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40- Making Music.- Yeah.
0:04:40 > 0:04:41- Wow!- Making Music.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Wow, those tap shoes!
0:04:43 > 0:04:45I thought I was faking the tap in that!
0:04:45 > 0:04:47I must have learnt it!
0:04:47 > 0:04:50I do love that shot.
0:04:50 > 0:04:51Grandad, Moza.
0:04:51 > 0:04:56- Yes.- And our grandmother, Phyllis or Phonse, on Dad's side.
0:04:56 > 0:04:57- Yeah.- Phonse and Moza.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59Funny how we called them Phonse and Moza.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03- That was like a nickname. Where did that come from?- I have no clue.
0:05:03 > 0:05:04You on Phonse's lap.
0:05:04 > 0:05:09There's me on Moza's lap, with a big finger in my mouth.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12Nice! He was a clown, wasn't he?
0:05:12 > 0:05:14And he loved riding his Penny Farthing.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17I know! That Penny Farthing!
0:05:17 > 0:05:20So there's another character in the family who is our great,
0:05:20 > 0:05:22- great grandfather.- Yeah.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25Moses Horwood. He was a convict.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28One of the early convicts that came across from England.
0:05:28 > 0:05:29Interesting character.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33Moses was having a drink at the Queen's Head Hotel in Cheltenham
0:05:33 > 0:05:34one night with a few mates.
0:05:34 > 0:05:38Thought he might go and steal a few things out of someone's room.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41Moses was hauled in and he was charged for burglary.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44To think that we come from convict stock!
0:05:44 > 0:05:46How exciting's that!
0:05:46 > 0:05:47Exciting. Absolutely!
0:05:47 > 0:05:49Hardly royalty though, is it?
0:05:49 > 0:05:50Have a look at this.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54Deaths in the district of Ballarat East.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57And this is dated 1881.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59Oh, yeah, Moses Horwood.
0:05:59 > 0:06:00Look how many children he had!
0:06:00 > 0:06:03- Wow!- But the one I want to show you is Charles.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06That is Revel's father.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Moza's father was called Charles.
0:06:09 > 0:06:10And this is Charles.
0:06:12 > 0:06:13He looks really dapper, doesn't he?
0:06:13 > 0:06:15He does. It's an amazing photo.
0:06:15 > 0:06:17This is an amazing photo.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20- They look wealthy.- Does look a wealthy photo, doesn't it?
0:06:20 > 0:06:23I mean, you don't have outfits like that if you're not wealthy.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26- No.- No.- So maybe they did well.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29Who's he married? Do we know?
0:06:29 > 0:06:31I know he married into the Tinworth family.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33But I don't know much more about...
0:06:33 > 0:06:34- You don't know about her.- About her.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36So what relation are they to us?
0:06:36 > 0:06:41- Our...- Our great grandfather and great grandmother.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45- Yeah.- It would be really interesting to know more about Charles, I think.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48I agree. Because I mean, this is quite close, isn't it?
0:06:48 > 0:06:49Yeah. Yeah, absolutely!
0:06:52 > 0:06:56Craig has discovered he's descended from an English petty criminal,
0:06:56 > 0:07:01Moses Horwood, who was transported to Australia as a convict in 1841.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07He's intrigued by the photograph of Moses' respectable looking son,
0:07:07 > 0:07:11Charles Horwood and his wife, Craig's great grandparents.
0:07:15 > 0:07:16To find out more about them,
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Craig's come to Ballarat's heritage reading rooms
0:07:19 > 0:07:22to meet genealogist Helen Mollison.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24- Hello. Pleased to meet you. - Lovely to meet you too.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Do you want to just come up here?
0:07:26 > 0:07:30I want to know a little bit more about this man,
0:07:30 > 0:07:33who is my great grandfather, Charles.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35I don't know who he's with, mind you.
0:07:35 > 0:07:40Well, maybe if you had a look at this document here.
0:07:40 > 0:07:41Marriages.
0:07:42 > 0:07:47Oh, here we go. Charles Horwood, is that Lizzie Belle Tinworth.
0:07:47 > 0:07:49And that's Charles and that's Lizzie.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51- And that's Lizzie. - In that photograph.
0:07:51 > 0:07:52So, that's who he married.
0:07:52 > 0:07:58On March 17th, 1891.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02And then, of course, on his side is Moses Horwood and Mary Horwood,
0:08:02 > 0:08:04so they're his mum and dad.
0:08:04 > 0:08:09Her mother and father, James Tinworth and Elizabeth Tinworth.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11And they were hotel keepers.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14It was the mining era in Ballarat.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16It was just enormous.
0:08:16 > 0:08:18There were thousands of people coming and going.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Owning a hotel was a very good occupation.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Wow! Hotel keeper.
0:08:23 > 0:08:24I like that.
0:08:25 > 0:08:29Craig's great grandfather Charles Horwood had married well.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31His Tinworth in-laws were running a hotel
0:08:31 > 0:08:34at the height of Ballarat's gold rush.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40In 1851, a chance discovery of gold had brought thousands of prospectors
0:08:40 > 0:08:43to Ballarat, all hoping to strike it rich.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49We can now look at this birth certificate.
0:08:49 > 0:08:51Oh, here we go. Lizzie.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54Her father, James Tinworth.
0:08:54 > 0:08:59Name and surname and profession of James's father, so Charles Tinworth.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01- Labourer.- Yes.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03And something in England.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05That's Elmdon.
0:09:05 > 0:09:06Elmdon, Essex.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09Oh, yeah, Essex. Essex!
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Oh, no! Really?
0:09:11 > 0:09:14- Essex?- In England.- There you are.
0:09:14 > 0:09:15In England.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19Craig's great grandmother Lizzie Tinworth
0:09:19 > 0:09:21was born and raised in Ballarat
0:09:21 > 0:09:24by her hotel keeper parents James and Elizabeth.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30But James's parents, Craig's great-great-great grandparents
0:09:30 > 0:09:33Charles and Elizabeth Tinworth came from Essex.
0:09:35 > 0:09:41But now I have no clue how or why they came here.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Here we are with some shipping documents that might
0:09:43 > 0:09:45be able to help you.
0:09:45 > 0:09:49Sailed from Southampton on 5th February, 1854.
0:09:51 > 0:09:53Tinworth. Charles and Elizabeth.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55Here we are. What does that mean?
0:09:55 > 0:09:56That's an ag-lab.
0:09:56 > 0:09:58Which is an agricultural labourer.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00Someone that digs dirt.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03Works on farms. Works on farms. Yes.
0:10:03 > 0:10:10- OK.- Male, was 20, and the female was 24.
0:10:10 > 0:10:11There we go across.
0:10:13 > 0:10:14By whom engaged.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16- Mrs Smith.- So in other words,
0:10:16 > 0:10:19who was he going to work for when he came to Australia.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For employment.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25- Employment, yes.- So they sailed from Southampton on the 5th of February.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28- Yes.- They arrived - February, March, April, May - three months later.
0:10:28 > 0:10:33Literally, almost exactly, on the 4th of May, in 1854.
0:10:33 > 0:10:37- Yes.- And they sailed into Geelong.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39But they must have wanted to do that.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42Yes, because Australia was a new country
0:10:42 > 0:10:45and we desperately needed people.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49The Government would pay for their fares on the ship.
0:10:49 > 0:10:50Oh, I see.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55As well as sending convicts to Australia,
0:10:55 > 0:10:58to help build this new colony, the British tempted young couples
0:10:58 > 0:11:01like Craig's great-great-great grandparents
0:11:01 > 0:11:03with the offer of a free passage.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07So he came out, sort of fully paid.
0:11:08 > 0:11:10That's wonderful and got fed.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13- And got fed.- And Geelong's quite nice, isn't it?
0:11:13 > 0:11:18And didn't have to go via Van Diemen's Land, has he? As a convict.
0:11:18 > 0:11:19That's true.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21That's nice to know.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23Now, this here might surprise you.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28Births in the district of Ballarat in the colony of Victoria.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32OK, Charles obviously moved to Ballarat
0:11:32 > 0:11:37because this is where the child was born. This is a Tinworth, isn't it?
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Edward, father.
0:11:39 > 0:11:40Charles Tinworth.
0:11:42 > 0:11:43And Elizabeth Revel.
0:11:44 > 0:11:48And it says Charles is 26.
0:11:48 > 0:11:49- Yes.- And a miner.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53That is most interesting.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56So that may have been actually the driving force
0:11:56 > 0:12:00behind the whole reason why he left Essex in the first place thinking,
0:12:00 > 0:12:03OK, I hear there's gold, let's get a way out there,
0:12:03 > 0:12:05without having to break the law.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07That's right. He did doing the work for...
0:12:07 > 0:12:09Doing the work for Mrs Smith.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Perfect! Love that.
0:12:11 > 0:12:12Oh, well done him!
0:12:16 > 0:12:20They chose to come to Australia when they were 20 and 24,
0:12:20 > 0:12:24like a young couple that decided to come and work the land.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28They moved to Ballarat for the gold rush because he became a miner.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41To find out more about Charles Tinworth's life as a miner,
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Craig's arranged to meet Dr Clare Wright,
0:12:43 > 0:12:46an expert on the gold rush in the state of Victoria.
0:12:47 > 0:12:48It's lovely to meet you.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50Lovely to meet you, too.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52It's gorgeous up here, isn't it?
0:12:52 > 0:12:53Isn't it beautiful, this is Black Hill.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56Yeah. I used to come here as a kid, actually.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59The reason I'm here is because I'd like to find out a little bit more
0:12:59 > 0:13:02information about my great-great-great grandfather
0:13:02 > 0:13:03Charles Tinworth.
0:13:03 > 0:13:07I can't imagine what life would have been like, actually,
0:13:07 > 0:13:10- in the gold rush.- When Charles and Elizabeth arrived here,
0:13:10 > 0:13:13they would have arrived to a tent city of about 40,000 people.
0:13:13 > 0:13:18- Wow!- So, can you imagine everybody living under canvas,
0:13:18 > 0:13:22not just on 40 degree days with these northerly hot winds,
0:13:22 > 0:13:25but also in the freezing cold of winter.
0:13:25 > 0:13:29Snow. Well I've lived through that and I've lived through the icy,
0:13:29 > 0:13:31freezing mornings, you know, when I was doing my paper round.
0:13:34 > 0:13:35Tens of thousands of miners
0:13:35 > 0:13:38like Craig's three-times great grandfather,
0:13:38 > 0:13:40Charles, brought their families to live in tents
0:13:40 > 0:13:42near the Ballarat gold fields.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46Crowded together with no sanitation,
0:13:46 > 0:13:50diseases like dysentery and typhoid spread quickly.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55Charles and Elizabeth were raising their three young children
0:13:55 > 0:13:56in these tough conditions.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02For the families that came out here, it was incredibly difficult.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04And Elizabeth herself didn't have it easy.
0:14:04 > 0:14:07We have the hospital records.
0:14:08 > 0:14:09There's a Tinworth.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11She's 34 years old at this stage.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13Birthplace Essex, of course.
0:14:13 > 0:14:19She's been hospitalised for a condition called menorrhagia.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22- Menorrhagia?- Excessive menstrual bleeding.
0:14:22 > 0:14:26- Oh, no!- Which may have been actually a miscarriage.
0:14:26 > 0:14:30She was in hospital for 37 days.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32That's a long time.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34Oh, my God! That would have been awful.
0:14:35 > 0:14:39That's really sad. I mean you don't often think of that, do you?
0:14:39 > 0:14:43You think of people striking it lucky, striking it rich.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45Great big gold nuggets,
0:14:45 > 0:14:47everyone celebrating and you forget the hardships
0:14:47 > 0:14:49that they actually went through.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Clare has brought Craig to an area by the Yarrowee River,
0:14:56 > 0:14:59where his three-times great grandfather used to mine.
0:15:00 > 0:15:01Watch your step!
0:15:02 > 0:15:06Prospectors could get to work after they'd paid a licence fee to the
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Government for what was known as their claim.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13Charles would have been entitled to a 12-foot claim.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17So it's not a large piece of land, 12 by 12.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21- No.- In terms of the kind of mining that Charles would have been doing,
0:15:21 > 0:15:26this gives a really good indication of what it would have looked like
0:15:26 > 0:15:28on the banks of the creek.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31- But it is an awful lot of equipment. - That's right.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33So every miner would have had to purchase that equipment and
0:15:33 > 0:15:37bring it out here. Hot, heavy, labour-intensive work.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39Not for the faint hearted.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45At the start of the Ballarat gold rush, in the 1850s,
0:15:45 > 0:15:48miners could find loose gold close to the surface
0:15:48 > 0:15:50of river beds and creeks.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54They'd dig here, using pans and cradles
0:15:54 > 0:15:57to separate the dirt from the precious metal.
0:15:58 > 0:16:04After all of the sand and the rock has been dislodged and poured away,
0:16:04 > 0:16:06then what's left is...
0:16:06 > 0:16:08- Gold!- Is those.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12- The flecks of...- The flecks of gold left at the bottom.
0:16:12 > 0:16:18Wow! It's a lot of hard work for what seems very little reward.
0:16:18 > 0:16:24It begs the question, did Charles strike it lucky and rich?
0:16:24 > 0:16:25Have a look here.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29This will show you what actually happened to Charles
0:16:29 > 0:16:31- and Elizabeth.- OK.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35Insolvency jurisdiction.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38- This is 1865.- 1865.- It's a little hard to see there.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Charles Tinworth.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Charles is filing for bankruptcy.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Oh, no!
0:16:44 > 0:16:47The details actually give us a pretty good indication
0:16:47 > 0:16:49of what's going on in Charles and Elizabeth's life
0:16:49 > 0:16:51over that ten years.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53Grocers... Oh, that's what they owe them.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57Oh, grocery goods, 38 quid and 10.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59Butchers, 17.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01Bread, boots.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04- And this one.- Oh, dear!
0:17:04 > 0:17:06- Medical.- Medical attendance.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09- Look at the price there.- 18 quid!
0:17:09 > 0:17:11That would have been a fortune!
0:17:11 > 0:17:12Oh, what's that? Cash loaned.
0:17:12 > 0:17:14- Cash lent.- Oh, God, he's borrowing cash.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16More cash. Like £10.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18Another £5.
0:17:18 > 0:17:23So, here, James Tinworth lent him £10.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26- Oh, so James...- So this is his brother.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28- And Joseph.- Also his brother.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31Brother. So he had two brothers here in Ballarat?
0:17:31 > 0:17:33Wow!
0:17:33 > 0:17:37I mean, when you look at this, the whole total's £107.49.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40What on earth would that be in today's money?
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Well, it's a lot of money.
0:17:42 > 0:17:46I mean it's roughly between £5,000-£8,000.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50Clearly he knew he had no way of being able to pay this off.
0:17:50 > 0:17:52Yeah, and then just had to go into bankruptcy.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55- And start again.- What a nightmare!
0:17:55 > 0:17:57What on earth happened to them?
0:18:00 > 0:18:01Charles and Elizabeth,
0:18:01 > 0:18:04I was particularly moved by actually,
0:18:04 > 0:18:06because I thought they're real,
0:18:06 > 0:18:09what we would call here Aussie battlers.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11They really battled on and battled on
0:18:11 > 0:18:13until they could battle no longer.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16But you know, good on them for trying.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19I think that's something to be definitely proud of
0:18:19 > 0:18:21and something that I can relate to.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25I'm hoping there is only one way on the wheel of fortune
0:18:25 > 0:18:27when you're down on it, and that's up.
0:18:27 > 0:18:32So, I'm hoping the next part of the story might lift me up
0:18:32 > 0:18:36out of this little bit of glumness I feel today,
0:18:36 > 0:18:38you know, about their lives.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44After a decade searching for riches in the gold fields,
0:18:44 > 0:18:46Charles Tinworth had lost everything.
0:18:46 > 0:18:50To find out what became of his three-times great grandfather
0:18:50 > 0:18:55after his bankruptcy, Craig has come to the old mining exchange
0:18:55 > 0:18:58to meet historian Joan Hunt.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00- Hello.- Hello, Craig. Pleased to meet you.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03- Lovely to meet you, too. - Come with me.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09I've just recently discovered that my great-great-great grandfather,
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Charles Tinworth, and his wife, Elizabeth,
0:19:12 > 0:19:17became bankrupt after ten years, bless them, of mining.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20I just wondered if you knew anything about that?
0:19:20 > 0:19:25Well, I know that they became bankrupt in 1865 and,
0:19:25 > 0:19:28you might be interested to read this follow-up.
0:19:28 > 0:19:29That was 1865.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32So is this from Geelong Advertisers.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35Thursday, April 29th, 1869.
0:19:35 > 0:19:39"Before his honour Judge Forbes, commissioner in insolvency.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41"The following is a list of the certificate meetings.
0:19:41 > 0:19:46"William Vowles, Ballarat, Thomas Hanson, Charles Tinworth..."
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Here we go. So, what's that mean?
0:19:49 > 0:19:53Four years after he became insolvent...
0:19:53 > 0:19:57- Yeah.- He has now been cleared and has a certificate.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59So he's now OK.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02Oh, that's good. So, four years later.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05- Yes.- Well, what did he do for four years?
0:20:05 > 0:20:11We do know that the two brothers James and Joseph Tinworth
0:20:11 > 0:20:17were with Charles and they had started mining together.
0:20:17 > 0:20:18Interesting.
0:20:19 > 0:20:24By the late 1860s when Charles joined forces with his brothers,
0:20:24 > 0:20:26most of the gold near the surface
0:20:26 > 0:20:29of the river beds around Ballarat had gone.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Like other prospectors,
0:20:31 > 0:20:35the Tinworths had to invest in more equipment so they could mine deeper
0:20:35 > 0:20:37into old, buried riverbeds.
0:20:40 > 0:20:46They really got to a point where the buried rivers were being depleted.
0:20:46 > 0:20:51So it's very likely that maybe in six months or maybe next year,
0:20:51 > 0:20:54that will be pretty well worked out.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57And they're going to have no more gold.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59- What a life.- They had a lot of ups and downs.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Yeah, they did. They really, really did.
0:21:03 > 0:21:0820 years after gold was discovered in Ballarat, the boom was over
0:21:08 > 0:21:12and by the early 1870s, many miners had left.
0:21:12 > 0:21:17Those who stayed moved into a more dangerous and costly type of mining.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21They wanted to get at gold buried deep in deposits of hard quartz,
0:21:21 > 0:21:23a common mineral in rocky higher ground.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29Craig wants to know if his three times great-grandfather
0:21:29 > 0:21:33and his brothers took to this new type of mining.
0:21:33 > 0:21:37He's come to the Whitehorse Ranges on the outskirts of the city to meet
0:21:37 > 0:21:39mining scientist Curtis Noice.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43- Hello.- Hello, Craig.- Yeah.
0:21:43 > 0:21:46- Curtis, how are you? - Curtis, lovely to meet you.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48So, I hear you're chasing some information about your family.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50Yes, I am.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Well, actually, I've been doing some research into the area
0:21:52 > 0:21:55and see if the Tinworths did have any success with their mining.
0:21:55 > 0:21:56This is a map just showing you
0:21:56 > 0:21:59how much activity actually occurred underground.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02I've just seen Clarke's and Tinworth Mines,
0:22:02 > 0:22:04here in Ballarat East. That is...
0:22:04 > 0:22:08Although not your family's, it's very close to this area.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11So it would be a very similar operation.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13That is huge.
0:22:13 > 0:22:14I mean, this is a massive progression
0:22:14 > 0:22:16from when they first started.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18This is proper mining, isn't it?
0:22:18 > 0:22:21- Yeah, absolutely.- Industrial.
0:22:22 > 0:22:26To get at the gold-bearing deposits of quartz,
0:22:26 > 0:22:29Charles and his brothers had to build a shaft
0:22:29 > 0:22:32reaching hundreds of metres underground.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34They'd haul the heavy quartz to the surface
0:22:34 > 0:22:36and crush it to extract the gold.
0:22:38 > 0:22:42So, where we stand today is actually where your forebears were.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44- Really?- And, in fact,
0:22:44 > 0:22:46I discovered a couple of depressions and I thought
0:22:46 > 0:22:48I'd better have a closer look.
0:22:48 > 0:22:51So, there's a slight depression through this area...
0:22:51 > 0:22:53OK. Oh, yes.
0:22:53 > 0:22:58..that had me interested. So I came looking and I actually discovered,
0:22:58 > 0:23:03just here, a footing of what I believe to be the shaft.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06- Wow.- It was a eureka moment.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10I noticed this tiny piece of concrete.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13And what I noticed that was different about the concrete
0:23:13 > 0:23:16is that it's full of quartz.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18Which means it's not modern concrete.
0:23:18 > 0:23:22- So they're using the materials that are available to them. - That are available, yeah.
0:23:22 > 0:23:26- So I believe that has been put there by your family.- Wow.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Tinworth quartz.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32- Absolutely.- I'm going to build a house out of it.
0:23:32 > 0:23:33That's amazing, actually.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37Well done. This is a little bit of history right there.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39In fact, a huge bit of history.
0:23:39 > 0:23:40Hasn't been uncovered for years.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44How exciting is that?
0:23:44 > 0:23:45I'm not sure if you're aware, Craig,
0:23:45 > 0:23:49but today we're mining directly under here.
0:23:49 > 0:23:51And if you'd like to come underground,
0:23:51 > 0:23:53I can show you the base of this shaft.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55I'm getting goose bumps.
0:23:55 > 0:23:56I mean, this is ridiculous.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58This is about gold mining.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01- Absolutely.- This is about mining. And I'm actually starting to...
0:24:01 > 0:24:04- It still exists.- Wow. Underneath this now?
0:24:06 > 0:24:10500-600 metres below the surface, we are mining today.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13That is insane. I love it.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19Curtis is taking Craig underground into a modern mine
0:24:19 > 0:24:22to see the remains of a shaft from the 1870s.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27The Tinworth mine was only metres away from this site.
0:24:29 > 0:24:35- So, off to our left, there we have...- Wow. That is tiny.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37- Yeah.- That is unreal.
0:24:37 > 0:24:41The shaft, you'll just see some timbers in the background there.
0:24:41 > 0:24:45- Yes, I can.- So, that's where the cage would come down with the men.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48- Oh, OK.- And because it's the sort of bottom of your work space,
0:24:48 > 0:24:53you'll have to bring out your wheelbarrows and tools for the day.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56So, this level, and the entrance, if you are doing it
0:24:56 > 0:24:58- with a pick and shovel... - Oh, my...
0:24:58 > 0:25:00It's as wide as it has to be cos
0:25:00 > 0:25:02you've got to haul all of that rock back up.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05It's laborious, isn't it?
0:25:05 > 0:25:09I mean, they must have worked tirelessly on that.
0:25:09 > 0:25:14So, one of the risks working underground, obviously, is the collapse.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16So, while you're tunnelling away,
0:25:16 > 0:25:19they won't have all of the ground support in.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22And a number of men lost their lives.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25Oh, God. I know you hear of like old mines caving in, don't you?
0:25:25 > 0:25:30- Yeah.- You know, when I look at that and I think that my ancestors,
0:25:30 > 0:25:35you know, my family, were down in among that,
0:25:35 > 0:25:38looking for a new future, you know.
0:25:38 > 0:25:44And what they were prepared to do, to get that new future is beyond me.
0:25:44 > 0:25:46Living on a pipe dream.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48- You know, living on... - With no guarantees.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51With no guarantees. And it's just incredible.
0:25:51 > 0:25:54- It's a big commitment. - Yeah. A massive commitment.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57I mean, you're risking your life...
0:25:58 > 0:26:00..just for a better future.
0:26:03 > 0:26:07Curtis is taking Craig a further 400 metres underground
0:26:07 > 0:26:10where miners are still extracting gold from quartz today.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15So, this is the end of the line, it seems.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18That's right. You'll see that the grey rock is waste.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22- Waste.- The white is the quartz which is what hosts the gold.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24But all quartz doesn't have gold in it.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26See, that's the big shame, isn't it?
0:26:26 > 0:26:29That's right. If it was easy, everybody would be doing it.
0:26:29 > 0:26:33That's right. So what did they do in the old days, then?
0:26:33 > 0:26:35So to reduce your work effort,
0:26:35 > 0:26:38they'd be chasing what was often referred to as an indicator.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42In fact Charles' son Edward was looking at minerals quite closely
0:26:42 > 0:26:46and trying to identify the correlation between certain minerals
0:26:46 > 0:26:50in the rock and the gold-bearing quartz.
0:26:50 > 0:26:51It's amazing.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56By the time he had moved into deep mining, Charles Tinworth
0:26:56 > 0:27:00had spent 20 years searching for gold.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02His sons had joined him in this risky business
0:27:02 > 0:27:05and Craig wants to know if the struggle ever paid off.
0:27:07 > 0:27:13He's come to Ballarat's Gold Museum to meet historian Jan Croggin.
0:27:13 > 0:27:18My great-great-great-grandfather's son, Edward,
0:27:18 > 0:27:23discovered some sort of mineral way of finding quartz and gold
0:27:23 > 0:27:27and mining it. I was just wondering whether or not, number one,
0:27:27 > 0:27:29he was successful at it.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32And how he went about it.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Edward Tinworth, son of Charles, your great-great-great-grandfather,
0:27:35 > 0:27:39is actually responsible for one of the things that made it possible to
0:27:39 > 0:27:42make a lot of money. He was only 13 years old.
0:27:42 > 0:27:47He worked out that if you could find where the quartz intersected
0:27:47 > 0:27:51with slate, you've found a lot of nuggety gold.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53Now that became more or less a rule.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55- You've probably heard of the indicator.- Yeah,
0:27:55 > 0:27:57I've heard the word but I've never fully understood it.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01Edward Tinworth found the indicator for the Ballarat East Goldfield.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03- Wow.- So that's pretty exciting.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05It is. That's an upturn, I can tell you.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08I've been in the doldrums, darling, you know,
0:28:08 > 0:28:11- and then they come up with it. That's brilliant.- They did.
0:28:11 > 0:28:12Oh, that's exciting.
0:28:12 > 0:28:16And, of course, the second question you asked me was, was it helpful.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19Have a look at that. And see what you think.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21It's a geological survey of Victoria.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24Oh, I see. List of nuggets found in Victoria.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27Ah, here we go. Tinworth's party and that was from the indicator.
0:28:27 > 0:28:31- And how much did it weigh? - This was in 1880.
0:28:31 > 0:28:32And it weighed about...
0:28:32 > 0:28:35- 250.- 250 ounces.
0:28:35 > 0:28:36- That's huge.- Yeah.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38- It is huge.- How much was that actually worth?
0:28:38 > 0:28:43- On today's prices, it would be £1,000 an ounce.- Wow.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45So that's £250,000.
0:28:45 > 0:28:47A quarter of a million...
0:28:47 > 0:28:49- Pounds.- Oh, that's brilliant.
0:28:49 > 0:28:51They must have absolutely been delighted.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54I mean, they'd been through so much hardship.
0:28:54 > 0:28:57I mean, to finally win the lottery.
0:28:57 > 0:29:01If you'd like an indication of what a nugget might have looked like...
0:29:01 > 0:29:02Yeah, I would love that.
0:29:02 > 0:29:05- We can show you. This is a bit special.- You're kidding.
0:29:05 > 0:29:08- Would you like to...? - Yeah, I want to hold it.
0:29:08 > 0:29:09Of course I do.
0:29:09 > 0:29:11This nugget...have a feel.
0:29:11 > 0:29:1229 ounces.
0:29:12 > 0:29:14That is really, really heavy.
0:29:14 > 0:29:16It's amazing.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18It's gorgeous, isn't it?
0:29:18 > 0:29:21The one that Tinworth found, the 250-ounce nugget,
0:29:21 > 0:29:24is about nine times bigger than that nugget.
0:29:24 > 0:29:27I mean, the stuff that dreams are made of, isn't it?
0:29:27 > 0:29:30- Absolutely.- Seriously. Obviously they must have gone on,
0:29:30 > 0:29:32and were finding nuggets and all of that stuff
0:29:32 > 0:29:35but please don't tell me it all ends in disaster.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37My stomach couldn't take it, darling.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39My heart couldn't take it.
0:29:39 > 0:29:41- What happened next? - If I could put before you this...
0:29:41 > 0:29:46The last will and Testament of Charles Tinworth.
0:29:46 > 0:29:51"The said Charles Tinworth had at the time of his death real property
0:29:51 > 0:29:57"in the state of Victoria not exceeding in value
0:29:57 > 0:30:00"the sum of £7,820.
0:30:00 > 0:30:02"And personal property in the said state
0:30:02 > 0:30:08"not exceeding in value the sum of £13,615."
0:30:08 > 0:30:12So around £21,000, on current prices today,
0:30:12 > 0:30:16probably £1.5 million. So he died a wealthy man.
0:30:16 > 0:30:18- And if you read...- A millionaire.
0:30:18 > 0:30:20- That's right.- Well done, him.
0:30:20 > 0:30:23- Next question.- Yeah, what did they do with it?
0:30:23 > 0:30:27What did they do with it? If I can find you, can you read that
0:30:27 > 0:30:29where it starts there?
0:30:29 > 0:30:36"And I also give and bequeath the sum of £300 to each of my grandsons,
0:30:36 > 0:30:41"James Tinworth and William Tinworth."
0:30:41 > 0:30:42The important bit is here.
0:30:42 > 0:30:46"Son of my late son James."
0:30:46 > 0:30:48- Yeah.- What happened to that?
0:30:48 > 0:30:50- He died before?- Yeah.
0:30:50 > 0:30:51You're absolutely right.
0:30:51 > 0:30:54Well, that's...that is a huge shock.
0:30:54 > 0:30:56Yeah. It is.
0:30:56 > 0:30:57His son died before him.
0:30:59 > 0:31:03Craig's great-great-grandfather James died from kidney failure
0:31:03 > 0:31:05when he was just 48 years old.
0:31:06 > 0:31:09His father Charles, who outlived him,
0:31:09 > 0:31:12left his huge fortune to the remaining living children.
0:31:13 > 0:31:18He also left money to James's sons, but not his daughters,
0:31:18 > 0:31:21including Lizzie, Craig's great-grandmother.
0:31:25 > 0:31:29The thing that sticks out in my mind at this juncture is the fact that
0:31:29 > 0:31:35Charles in his will left the money only to the boys.
0:31:35 > 0:31:40The grandsons in the family, not the granddaughters.
0:31:40 > 0:31:43One of which, of course, is my relative, Lizzie.
0:31:43 > 0:31:47That's right, yeah. Your family didn't inherit the Tinworth fortune.
0:31:47 > 0:31:53- Yeah, the Tinworth huge wealth... - Damn!- ..and fortune.
0:31:53 > 0:31:56So...what a shame.
0:31:56 > 0:31:59That's just truly unbelievable, isn't it?
0:31:59 > 0:32:01It's a really sad twist of fate.
0:32:01 > 0:32:02Wow.
0:32:04 > 0:32:08And particularly sad because we have discovered that the Tinworth mine,
0:32:08 > 0:32:13between 1871 and 1909, when they closed it down,
0:32:13 > 0:32:17they actually found 30,000 ounces of gold,
0:32:17 > 0:32:22which would be roughly worth, on current prices, about £30 million.
0:32:25 > 0:32:26So...yeah.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28Lizzie!
0:32:28 > 0:32:29Don't you just hate history.
0:32:31 > 0:32:32Pretty disappointing.
0:32:32 > 0:32:35No, it's great, it's amazing, really, it's amazing.
0:32:45 > 0:32:50It does make me wonder what my father, who recently died,
0:32:50 > 0:32:52may think of this journey,
0:32:52 > 0:32:55because I'm sure he knew nothing about all of this.
0:32:57 > 0:33:01The idea that Charles Tinworth had 20 years
0:33:01 > 0:33:05before he really achieved his dream
0:33:05 > 0:33:12was showing great determination and great human nature
0:33:12 > 0:33:13and that's what I love.
0:33:15 > 0:33:20And my dad, I think, would be so proud of his forefather
0:33:20 > 0:33:22in that way too.
0:33:22 > 0:33:26I just wish that he was here now to see all of this, you know.
0:33:26 > 0:33:28That would be good.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42I think it's time to actually find out
0:33:42 > 0:33:46about my grandmother's side of the family.
0:33:46 > 0:33:48I called her Phonse.
0:33:48 > 0:33:50I don't ever really get to see my grandmother that much.
0:33:53 > 0:33:57Last time I saw her was literally four years ago.
0:33:57 > 0:34:01And since then, my father has died, of course, her son,
0:34:01 > 0:34:03so she's probably been dealing with that.
0:34:03 > 0:34:05I can't wait.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11Craig is flying 2,000 miles west across Australia
0:34:11 > 0:34:13to see his grandmother, Phyllis,
0:34:13 > 0:34:16known in the family as Phonse, who lives in Perth.
0:34:20 > 0:34:22Phonse turned 100 last month.
0:34:22 > 0:34:26I mean she was born in what, 1917, for goodness' sake.
0:34:26 > 0:34:30Which is just outrageous.
0:34:30 > 0:34:34I really know very little about my grandmother's upbringing.
0:34:34 > 0:34:39The only thing I really know is that she was in an orphanage.
0:34:43 > 0:34:47Phyllis lives with her grandson, Craig's cousin Logan.
0:34:51 > 0:34:52DOORBELL RINGS
0:34:55 > 0:34:56Hello.
0:34:56 > 0:35:00- Come in. How are you?- Logan! - Come on in.- So good to see you.
0:35:00 > 0:35:03How lovely, long time, eh, come in.
0:35:03 > 0:35:06- You're looking well.- Thank you. And you.- Gorgeous.
0:35:06 > 0:35:09- Come in.- Oh, look, here we are.
0:35:09 > 0:35:11It's been ages since I've been here.
0:35:12 > 0:35:17- Couple of years, I think.- Oh, it's the Queen Mother herself, darling.
0:35:17 > 0:35:21Sure. Let me bow down before you.
0:35:21 > 0:35:23Oh, thank you, darling.
0:35:23 > 0:35:26- How are you?- How are you?
0:35:26 > 0:35:30Oh, isn't it lovely to see you?
0:35:30 > 0:35:31It's lovely.
0:35:31 > 0:35:34You look fantastic.
0:35:34 > 0:35:37- Thank you.- It's lovely to be here.
0:35:37 > 0:35:39I'm glad you could come.
0:35:39 > 0:35:43I believe you got a little card from the Queen herself.
0:35:43 > 0:35:46I sure did, would you like me to show you?
0:35:46 > 0:35:47I would love it.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52Have a look at that.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55Wow. "Mrs Horwood,
0:35:55 > 0:35:59"I'm pleased to hear that you are celebrating your 100th birthday.
0:35:59 > 0:36:03"My sincere congratulations and best wishes
0:36:03 > 0:36:06"on this very special day. Elizabeth."
0:36:06 > 0:36:08Ah, how fantastic.
0:36:08 > 0:36:11- It's beautiful.- So, Phonse,
0:36:11 > 0:36:15I haven't, over the years, asked you much about your life.
0:36:15 > 0:36:19Your roots. I don't know whether you have any photographs of your
0:36:19 > 0:36:23- mum and dad, by any chance? - I've just got one.
0:36:23 > 0:36:24And here it is.
0:36:24 > 0:36:28It's a beautiful photo of them.
0:36:28 > 0:36:30That's my mum and dad.
0:36:30 > 0:36:34- Ah.- That's Julia and that's Harry.
0:36:34 > 0:36:35She was gorgeous.
0:36:35 > 0:36:39- She was.- He is very striking as well, isn't he?
0:36:39 > 0:36:41Really square jaw line.
0:36:41 > 0:36:44- Wow.- Strong-looking man... - Yeah, he looks like a rugby player.
0:36:45 > 0:36:50My mother, I was there the day she died.
0:36:50 > 0:36:53She had the baby at nine o'clock and that was it.
0:36:53 > 0:36:56Your mum died in childbirth, was it?
0:36:56 > 0:36:58She died with childbirth.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00- Nine children.- Boy!
0:37:00 > 0:37:02And she died at 40.
0:37:03 > 0:37:08When my mother died, I think they all got together, and I thought,
0:37:08 > 0:37:10they decided what they were going to do.
0:37:10 > 0:37:15After a big discussion, they decided they'd take us to Emmaville.
0:37:15 > 0:37:21Went to the aunties and the uncles and they had us for about a month
0:37:21 > 0:37:23and I suppose we got too much for them.
0:37:23 > 0:37:25And so what did they decide?
0:37:25 > 0:37:28They decided to put us in the orphanage.
0:37:28 > 0:37:31What was life like at the orphanage that you can remember?
0:37:31 > 0:37:39It was rigid, it was regimental, but glory be,
0:37:39 > 0:37:42Christmas Day was the best day of the lot.
0:37:43 > 0:37:45Christmas Day.
0:37:45 > 0:37:49It was the same routine, up at six o'clock in the morning,
0:37:49 > 0:37:50and down to Mass at seven.
0:37:50 > 0:37:54You come out into the dining room for breakfast.
0:37:55 > 0:37:59There on your plate was one sausage.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02LAUGHTER
0:38:02 > 0:38:06One sausage, believe it or not.
0:38:06 > 0:38:08You could pick it up in your fingers,
0:38:08 > 0:38:11and you could sit and eat this sausage.
0:38:11 > 0:38:13Isn't that incredible?
0:38:13 > 0:38:15What a fantastic story.
0:38:15 > 0:38:17It was unbelievable.
0:38:19 > 0:38:23They fed us, they clothed us and they educated us.
0:38:23 > 0:38:25What more could we ask?
0:38:25 > 0:38:28- Yeah.- And that was because your dad couldn't do that for you?
0:38:28 > 0:38:30That's because my dad couldn't do it.
0:38:30 > 0:38:34- No.- He would never have been able to have looked after all of us.
0:38:34 > 0:38:37Is there any more information that you have about your dad?
0:38:37 > 0:38:39I've got his birth certificate.
0:38:39 > 0:38:41- Wow!- If that would be of any help to you.
0:38:41 > 0:38:43Yeah, come on.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45OK, here we go.
0:38:45 > 0:38:47- October 5th.- Is that 91?
0:38:47 > 0:38:48- 1871.- 71.
0:38:49 > 0:38:52At Clarevale Station near Emmaville.
0:38:52 > 0:38:56On a station? He was born on a station?
0:38:56 > 0:38:58What, a platform?
0:38:58 > 0:38:59No, no, a sheep station!
0:38:59 > 0:39:01Made Phonse laugh!
0:39:01 > 0:39:05- So where they run the livestock.- OK.
0:39:05 > 0:39:08There is the father's name, occupation, age and birthplace.
0:39:08 > 0:39:10You've got that.
0:39:10 > 0:39:15Harry. Harry Shaw, 31 years...
0:39:15 > 0:39:18Ashton-under-Lyne, England.
0:39:19 > 0:39:21Ashton-under-Lyne.
0:39:21 > 0:39:24England? British too!
0:39:24 > 0:39:27Ashton-under-Lyne had a big industry of cotton mills,
0:39:27 > 0:39:29and that's originally where he worked.
0:39:29 > 0:39:33Wow! So, OK...
0:39:33 > 0:39:37I would love to know what you might remember about your grandfather,
0:39:37 > 0:39:42- Harry Shaw.- I might have a photo of him.
0:39:42 > 0:39:44That's him.
0:39:44 > 0:39:46- This is Harry.- Yeah.
0:39:46 > 0:39:50That's my grandfather, but I don't remember him at all.
0:39:50 > 0:39:52Do you know anything about Harry?
0:39:52 > 0:39:55Well, he worked all around the north New South Wales area,
0:39:55 > 0:39:58and obviously around this station where his son was born, this Harry.
0:40:00 > 0:40:02He was referred to as Harry Macklin Shaw.
0:40:04 > 0:40:06Amazing.
0:40:07 > 0:40:08Well, that's exciting, isn't it?
0:40:08 > 0:40:09It's very exciting.
0:40:09 > 0:40:12- Thank you.- That's all right.
0:40:12 > 0:40:14Thank you.
0:40:16 > 0:40:19Craig's discovered that his great-great-grandfather
0:40:19 > 0:40:21Harry Macklin Shaw was another Englishman,
0:40:21 > 0:40:25from the cotton mill town of Ashton-under-Lyne,
0:40:25 > 0:40:29who came to Australia to work on a sheep station in New South Wales.
0:40:37 > 0:40:41Today I have embarked on a whole new family once again.
0:40:41 > 0:40:44I mean, it's just brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
0:40:46 > 0:40:50I was really surprised to find that my grandmother's side of the family,
0:40:50 > 0:40:53the Shaw side of the family, came from north-west England,
0:40:53 > 0:40:54up near Manchester.
0:40:56 > 0:40:59Harry Macklin Shaw, my great-great-grandfather,
0:40:59 > 0:41:03was living in the north of New South Wales.
0:41:03 > 0:41:04I mean, I've never been there.
0:41:11 > 0:41:14Craig's travelling back to the east of Australia, to Glen Innes,
0:41:14 > 0:41:17the place where his great-great-grandfather
0:41:17 > 0:41:18Harry Macklin Shaw settled.
0:41:27 > 0:41:30He's come to the sheep station where Harry used to work.
0:41:30 > 0:41:34Local historian Bill Oates has been looking into Harry's life here.
0:41:36 > 0:41:39- Good morning, Craig. - Good morning, Bill.
0:41:39 > 0:41:42I'd like to know about this man, who was my great-great-grandfather,
0:41:42 > 0:41:46who came out from Greater Manchester,
0:41:46 > 0:41:49and his name is Harry Macklin Shaw.
0:41:49 > 0:41:54Harry came out to Australia following his brother, William,
0:41:54 > 0:41:56who'd arrived in the colony sometime earlier.
0:41:56 > 0:41:59- Oh, OK.- There was a shortage of labour up here,
0:41:59 > 0:42:02whereas the mills were struggling in England at that time.
0:42:02 > 0:42:05So, there were many people making similar decisions.
0:42:05 > 0:42:08- Right.- I have got a photo here from the early days.
0:42:08 > 0:42:13- I'll be needing these!- Clarevale was a head station,
0:42:13 > 0:42:15it would have been over 50,000 acres at this stage there,
0:42:15 > 0:42:18and they would have run about 20,000 sheep.
0:42:18 > 0:42:19That's big, isn't it, really?
0:42:19 > 0:42:21It is, and they're communities in themselves.
0:42:21 > 0:42:24I can imagine it would be quite a tough life.
0:42:24 > 0:42:26It would be a tough life.
0:42:26 > 0:42:27It's also interesting to note
0:42:27 > 0:42:30that there's still a pretty good social life
0:42:30 > 0:42:31that goes around here as well.
0:42:31 > 0:42:35- OK.- Probably a good time to show you this one here.
0:42:36 > 0:42:39Oh, the Oddfellows' Ball.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42This is from the Glen Innes Examiner,
0:42:42 > 0:42:44Tuesday, November 23rd, 1880.
0:42:44 > 0:42:49"The Oddfellows gave a grand ball in Ezzy's large hall in the evening,
0:42:49 > 0:42:51"at which there were about 70 couple present."
0:42:51 > 0:42:54That's quite a lot of couples, isn't it?
0:42:54 > 0:42:55- It is.- For a little ball.
0:42:55 > 0:42:59- Yeah.- "The Glen Innes String Band presided,
0:42:59 > 0:43:02"and discoursed some very sweet music.
0:43:02 > 0:43:04"We were greatly struck with the uniform manner
0:43:04 > 0:43:08"in which everything in connection with this ball was carried out,
0:43:08 > 0:43:13"which was certainly due to the untiring energies of Mr H Shaw,
0:43:13 > 0:43:15"who officiated as MC.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17"Dancing was kept up till daylight."
0:43:17 > 0:43:21He was an MC, a master of ceremonies!
0:43:21 > 0:43:24If you're going to have a party, you've got to have it running till daylight!
0:43:24 > 0:43:26Well, you do, don't you, I suppose?
0:43:26 > 0:43:28That was brilliant!
0:43:28 > 0:43:30Wow! So he was MC-ing this whole thing,
0:43:30 > 0:43:36so he was obviously some sort of out there type performer, in a way.
0:43:36 > 0:43:41- Yes.- Well, had a personality that could sustain that, for a community.
0:43:41 > 0:43:43- That shows through.- Yeah!
0:43:46 > 0:43:48When you consider someone that's a labourer,
0:43:48 > 0:43:51you wouldn't think that there's going to be...
0:43:51 > 0:43:53There's no business like show business!
0:43:53 > 0:43:57But, if you consider that he was master of ceremonies
0:43:57 > 0:44:00at local dances, he had to have some sort of showman in him.
0:44:01 > 0:44:05And he must have had a little bit of chutzpah and verve,
0:44:05 > 0:44:06and that's what I love.
0:44:10 > 0:44:13Craig wants to find out more about his extrovert
0:44:13 > 0:44:16great-great-grandfather, Harry.
0:44:16 > 0:44:20He's come to Glen Innes's History House to meet archivist Eve Chapel.
0:44:20 > 0:44:22Craig, Eve Chapel.
0:44:22 > 0:44:23Hi, lovely to meet you.
0:44:24 > 0:44:28Now, Eve, I was just wondering about my great-great-grandfather
0:44:28 > 0:44:33Harry Macklin Shaw, and whether or not you had any other information
0:44:33 > 0:44:34- on him at all?- We do have.
0:44:40 > 0:44:45Have a look at that article there, "Good Templary at Vegetable Creek."
0:44:45 > 0:44:50"The annual anniversary of the Nil Desperandum lodge..."
0:44:50 > 0:44:55OK. "..The singing and recitations were not up to expectations
0:44:55 > 0:44:59"owing to some imperfections in the stage fittings."
0:45:00 > 0:45:02Everyone's a critic, darling!
0:45:02 > 0:45:03Everyone's a critic.
0:45:03 > 0:45:06"Harry Shaw's step dancing..."
0:45:06 > 0:45:07Oh, step dancing!
0:45:07 > 0:45:09"... And recitation were well rendered."
0:45:09 > 0:45:12- So he was dancing a bit, and acting a bit.- Yes.
0:45:12 > 0:45:14And reciting.
0:45:14 > 0:45:16Yeah, and reciting stuff.
0:45:16 > 0:45:19"Dancing was indulged in until the early hours of the morning."
0:45:19 > 0:45:22He has a reputation for that, because I read a little bit where,
0:45:22 > 0:45:30you know, he was MC-ing a ball, and it closed at sunrise, you know.
0:45:30 > 0:45:34You can see he's one of these people who's right in with his community.
0:45:34 > 0:45:36- Yes.- And he's going to enjoy himself.
0:45:36 > 0:45:37How fantastic.
0:45:37 > 0:45:41There's more. This is 1877.
0:45:44 > 0:45:47"A very acceptable performance was given to this club
0:45:47 > 0:45:51"on Wednesday evening last at the Royal Assembly Rooms.
0:45:51 > 0:45:55"These clever performers sang a number of songs
0:45:55 > 0:45:57"in a creditable manner.
0:45:57 > 0:46:00"The ex-champion clog dancer of New South Wales..."
0:46:00 > 0:46:01No!
0:46:01 > 0:46:03"... Mr H Shaw."
0:46:03 > 0:46:07An ex-champion clog dancer!
0:46:07 > 0:46:10You've got somebody famous in your family!
0:46:10 > 0:46:13That's hilarious! Clog dancing!
0:46:13 > 0:46:14That is brilliant.
0:46:16 > 0:46:18Clog dancing was a hugely popular pastime
0:46:18 > 0:46:20in late 19th-century Australia.
0:46:22 > 0:46:27A forerunner of modern tap dancing, performers wore wooden soled shoes
0:46:27 > 0:46:29and tapped out steps in complex rhythms.
0:46:33 > 0:46:37I never really considered anyone in my family to be part of theatre,
0:46:37 > 0:46:42at all. So this is finally ringing some bells, darling.
0:46:42 > 0:46:43We're loving that!
0:46:53 > 0:46:58I'm really intrigued about old Harry getting his clogs
0:46:58 > 0:47:01out and dancing around.
0:47:03 > 0:47:06And I just found it really fascinating
0:47:06 > 0:47:11that there is finally some theatricality in my blood.
0:47:15 > 0:47:17Craig knows that his great-great-grandfather
0:47:17 > 0:47:18danced in Emmaville.
0:47:19 > 0:47:22He's been put in touch with local historian Anne Fairbanks.
0:47:24 > 0:47:25Hello, you must be Anne.
0:47:25 > 0:47:28I am. Hello, Craig and welcome to Emmaville.
0:47:28 > 0:47:31Oh, lovely. This is lovely, isn't it?
0:47:31 > 0:47:33Sweet little town.
0:47:33 > 0:47:36I'm here to actually find out a little bit more about my
0:47:36 > 0:47:39great-great-grandfather Harry,
0:47:39 > 0:47:44and I thought I had to absolutely come here to see where he performed.
0:47:44 > 0:47:50- You may be interested in this little bit.- Oh, the Sydney Morning Herald.
0:47:50 > 0:47:52That's a big old paper, isn't it, darling?
0:47:52 > 0:47:53- That's like a proper one.- Yes.
0:47:53 > 0:48:00"Challenge. I, Harry Macklin, am open to dance any man in Australia
0:48:00 > 0:48:04"at Hornpipe Dancing for 20 quid -
0:48:04 > 0:48:09"which dances the most steps, dances them the cleanest
0:48:09 > 0:48:11"and keeps the best time.
0:48:11 > 0:48:16"Man and money ready at Westmoreland Street, Forest Lodge."
0:48:16 > 0:48:18Wow. So is this like an advertisement?
0:48:18 > 0:48:22- Yes. He's challenging... - He's actually challenging someone.
0:48:22 > 0:48:25Challenging people for 20 quid. That's quite a lot of money back then, isn't it?
0:48:25 > 0:48:29And this is 1871. You know, 20 quid back then was about a thousand dollars.
0:48:29 > 0:48:31- Yeah, that's a lot.- That's a lot of money.
0:48:31 > 0:48:34I just can't imagine putting an ad in, "I will dance!
0:48:34 > 0:48:38"I'm open to dance any man in Australia at Hornpipe Dancing."
0:48:38 > 0:48:40But who's judging him? This is the thing.
0:48:40 > 0:48:42He's probably going to judge himself.
0:48:42 > 0:48:44Yeah, but he must be! "Man and money ready".
0:48:44 > 0:48:46- That is brilliant. - It's good, isn't it?
0:48:46 > 0:48:49I mean, he's really throwing it out there, isn't he, to make money?
0:48:49 > 0:48:52But not only that, to get to Sydney from here,
0:48:52 > 0:48:55he would have had to travel overland to Grafton,
0:48:55 > 0:48:57which would have taken three or four days by horse,
0:48:57 > 0:49:01and then from Grafton he would have gone to the coast
0:49:01 > 0:49:03- and caught a steamer to Sydney.- Yeah.
0:49:03 > 0:49:05Just to go down there to perform.
0:49:05 > 0:49:08- That is amazing.- I have another little one here too.
0:49:08 > 0:49:11- Have a look at the date. - Friday January 26, 1872.
0:49:11 > 0:49:14- Which we know is Australia Day. - Yeah, Australia Day.
0:49:14 > 0:49:16So he's hopped off to Sydney for Australia Day.
0:49:16 > 0:49:18"At half past four o'clock,
0:49:18 > 0:49:22"the champion clog dancer Harry Macklin in his celebrated dances."
0:49:24 > 0:49:26It's just insane!
0:49:26 > 0:49:29It gets even better, Craig.
0:49:29 > 0:49:30Now have a look at this.
0:49:30 > 0:49:34That building there is the one that he performed at on Australia Day.
0:49:34 > 0:49:36It actually made the London News.
0:49:36 > 0:49:40So the rellies back home could see how well he was doing.
0:49:41 > 0:49:45Did he tell the relatives back there "Oh, I'm going to
0:49:45 > 0:49:48"be a champion clog dancer and I'm going to be performing
0:49:48 > 0:49:50"almost equivalent to the opera house?"
0:49:50 > 0:49:51He probably sent that when he left home.
0:49:51 > 0:49:55- He said, "You'll be hearing about me."- That is amazing.
0:49:55 > 0:49:58I mean, to think actually how on earth
0:49:58 > 0:50:01he learnt any of that is beyond me.
0:50:01 > 0:50:05You know, to become the New South Wales champion for clogging
0:50:05 > 0:50:06is just insane.
0:50:15 > 0:50:18What I find interesting in the parallel that I can draw
0:50:18 > 0:50:22is he moved from this really sleepy town of Emmaville,
0:50:22 > 0:50:24he went to the big smoke to make it.
0:50:24 > 0:50:27That was Sydney of course and I was in Ballarat
0:50:27 > 0:50:30and I moved to what I call the big smoke, which was Melbourne.
0:50:31 > 0:50:35So to think that my great-great-grandfather
0:50:35 > 0:50:38has done the same thing is just madness!
0:50:39 > 0:50:42I can't get my head round it just yet.
0:50:42 > 0:50:46I really need to go to Sydney to find out a lot more about him.
0:50:50 > 0:50:54Craig's retracing his great-great-grandfather's journey
0:50:54 > 0:50:56to Sydney to try to find out how Harry became
0:50:56 > 0:50:58such an accomplished clog dancer.
0:51:04 > 0:51:08Craig's come to meet music and dance expert Heather Clark.
0:51:08 > 0:51:09- Hello.- Hello!
0:51:09 > 0:51:11You must be Heather.
0:51:11 > 0:51:13Yes, you must be Craig. Lovely to meet you.
0:51:13 > 0:51:16- I am indeed. Lovely to meet you too. Have a seat.- Oh, thank you.
0:51:18 > 0:51:22I have come all the way to Sydney to discover a little bit more about my
0:51:22 > 0:51:25great-great-grandfather Harry Macklin Shaw,
0:51:25 > 0:51:29who I have discovered became a bit of a clog dancer.
0:51:29 > 0:51:33And I'm just thinking where on earth would he learn it?
0:51:33 > 0:51:36Where would he practise it? And all of those sort of things.
0:51:36 > 0:51:41Clog dancing developed in the north of England.
0:51:41 > 0:51:43The story is that they mimicked
0:51:43 > 0:51:47the rhythms that the machines were making.
0:51:47 > 0:51:48That makes sense.
0:51:49 > 0:51:52Cotton mill workers wore wooden sod clogs
0:51:52 > 0:51:54because of the damp mill floors.
0:51:55 > 0:51:58The rhythms they tapped started as a way to keep warm
0:51:58 > 0:52:01but developed into a popular new style of dance.
0:52:03 > 0:52:04When he came to Australia,
0:52:04 > 0:52:07he still would have been in a community
0:52:07 > 0:52:11where people were dancing and he would have picked up more steps.
0:52:11 > 0:52:14You know, you see a step you like and go "Oh, I'll have that one."
0:52:14 > 0:52:15- Yeah, that's true.- Yeah.
0:52:15 > 0:52:20You know, you sort of build on it and there's also accounts of
0:52:20 > 0:52:23people like shearers and miners,
0:52:23 > 0:52:25they would take a little board with them
0:52:25 > 0:52:28so when they had a break at lunch time or whatever,
0:52:28 > 0:52:29they would practise their steps.
0:52:29 > 0:52:31They're not set routines.
0:52:31 > 0:52:33Well you improvise, don't you?
0:52:33 > 0:52:36Like they did, I suppose, on the streets of New York.
0:52:36 > 0:52:38The tap dancing. You put a board down, you get your taps out...
0:52:38 > 0:52:40That's exactly the same tradition.
0:52:40 > 0:52:43I have heard references, of course, to Harry, you know,
0:52:43 > 0:52:46that he became New South Wales champion.
0:52:46 > 0:52:51I actually have something here which is hugely significant,
0:52:51 > 0:52:56not just in your family but in Australian dance history as well.
0:52:57 > 0:52:59Darling.
0:52:59 > 0:53:02I need my glasses.
0:53:02 > 0:53:03What's this?
0:53:03 > 0:53:09"Born 5th of July, 1840.
0:53:09 > 0:53:10"Oh, Ashton-under-Lyne."
0:53:10 > 0:53:12Yes.
0:53:12 > 0:53:17"Harry M Shaw, champion of Australia."
0:53:17 > 0:53:20- Is that Australasia? - Yes.- Australasia?
0:53:21 > 0:53:24- Wow. Clog dancing. - Mm, so he must have been fabulous.
0:53:25 > 0:53:28This is the 5th of October 1871.
0:53:28 > 0:53:30Wow.
0:53:30 > 0:53:31That is extraordinary!
0:53:33 > 0:53:35That is something, isn't it?
0:53:35 > 0:53:37- It is.- That is amazing!
0:53:37 > 0:53:40It is. It's fabulous, isn't it?
0:53:40 > 0:53:41It's incredible!
0:53:41 > 0:53:46I had absolutely no clue whatsoever.
0:53:46 > 0:53:52That is a little gem of histoire right there...
0:53:52 > 0:53:53in my hands.
0:53:53 > 0:53:54That makes it all real actually.
0:53:54 > 0:53:56- It does.- It really does.
0:53:56 > 0:53:58Oh, I want to learn clog dancing.
0:53:58 > 0:54:01Well, I can help you there.
0:54:01 > 0:54:04Oh, no. Are we going clogging, darling?
0:54:04 > 0:54:06- Yes.- How excellent.
0:54:06 > 0:54:09Well, I can't guarantee I'm going to be any good at it
0:54:09 > 0:54:11- but we'll have a go. - Well...- How exciting.
0:54:11 > 0:54:13Come over this way.
0:54:13 > 0:54:20Now what I have here for you are a lovely, lovely pair of clogs.
0:54:21 > 0:54:23Oh, they're a bit special.
0:54:24 > 0:54:27- There's not a lot of movement in those.- No. Really solid.
0:54:33 > 0:54:34I'll sling them on.
0:54:35 > 0:54:37They are solid as...
0:54:39 > 0:54:42Not only are we going to dance but we're going to dance to live music.
0:54:42 > 0:54:44- Wow.- So here they come.
0:54:44 > 0:54:46Oh, no, here they come.
0:54:48 > 0:54:50So if you were competing,
0:54:50 > 0:54:53you'd probably stand with your back to your musicians.
0:54:53 > 0:54:55So it's the break.
0:54:55 > 0:54:58It goes step, shuffle, step, step, shuffle...
0:54:58 > 0:55:00Step, shuffle.
0:55:00 > 0:55:03Yep, that's it.
0:55:03 > 0:55:04Break.
0:55:07 > 0:55:09Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah. And then to the break.
0:55:09 > 0:55:11HE SINGS A TUNE
0:55:13 > 0:55:15- Shall we give it a bash?- OK.
0:55:15 > 0:55:19Oh, dear. This is like throwing me one, isn't it?
0:55:20 > 0:55:21On the spot.
0:55:21 > 0:55:23OK.
0:55:26 > 0:55:27Break.
0:55:28 > 0:55:29Oh, that's the break.
0:55:29 > 0:55:32OK, try it again. That was terrible.
0:55:34 > 0:55:37So I'll just copy you. And I'll fudge it to the end.
0:55:37 > 0:55:39I'm sure you're very good at that.
0:55:39 > 0:55:40Yeah, good at fudging.
0:56:10 > 0:56:12Good. Well done.
0:56:12 > 0:56:15- Nailed, darling! - Yeah. Plenty of nails in there.
0:56:17 > 0:56:18These hurt!
0:56:18 > 0:56:21- Thank you, darling. - That was fabulous.
0:56:21 > 0:56:23I'll practise that. I'll take these away.
0:56:23 > 0:56:24- Yes, they're yours!- Oh!
0:56:38 > 0:56:44It was just brilliant to see Harry Shaw, you know,
0:56:44 > 0:56:47take that crown for Australasia clog dancing.
0:56:47 > 0:56:50I mean, who would have ever dreamt it?
0:56:50 > 0:56:54And I'm so proud that he made something of himself.
0:56:54 > 0:56:59Harry and Charles Tinworth, two men - very, very driven,
0:56:59 > 0:57:04two very powerful men, in a way, that went against all adversity
0:57:04 > 0:57:06and really came out on top.
0:57:07 > 0:57:12I started feeling strongly that I was very much like them.
0:57:13 > 0:57:17I wanted to follow my heart, my passion, my dreams of dance,
0:57:17 > 0:57:22and it's just amazing to know that that actually runs in the family
0:57:22 > 0:57:23and in the blood.
0:57:23 > 0:57:29Cos it really has put a new twist on who I think I am.