Can anyone help. My maternal great greaqt grandfather Phillipe Le Maistre was born in the Channel Islands in 1830.
In 1859 while working as a seaman, he travelled to Australia and deserted when he jumped ship in Port Adelaide.
In 1860 he married Harriet Gardner and they had 7 children (one died in infancy) including my great grandmother Harriet
Charlotte Elizabeth Le Maistre who married Frank Goodwin Wilson in1893. I am working on this side of the family tree at present and am trying to find information on Phillipe and his family pre 1859. He died aged 67 in 1897 in Aldgate South Australia.