In 1849 George, Mary, Harriett and Mary Henday Body, 14 years old, left South Hill, England and sailed to Australia on board the Steadfast to start a new life. In 1853 Mary Henday Body married John Bray and they had eight children and lived amongst the excitement of the goldfields in McCallum's Creek/Majorca then headed to Fitzroy, Melbourne. One of their children, Harriet Banfield Bray was our Great Grandmother. Harriet and husband Archibald Smith had three children and sadly both parents died young, leaving Esther, Sydney and Alice orphaned. Family ties were strong though and Harriet's sister, Alice and mother Mary Henday helped raise the children. Sydney Smith married Elizabeth George and our dad William John Smith was born into a family of six children. As a tribute to our stoic ancestors and father William John Smith who passed away 26/1/2021 aged 93, we value the links to our past, including those with St. Sampson's South Hill, Cornwall, England and particularly from such a vast distance away, here in Australia.