Hello Lori,
Just quickly from memory Hannah made the journey safely with four of her children, Robert, Jane, Hannah Jr. and Ellen out to Australia on the Calliope where they all settled in Victoria. Hannah jnr. married an artist and, after having three children died after giving birth to the fourth. Ellen also married and had several children. Jane, my Great Grandmother, married Alfred Sayer and had several children. She died in 1915. Robert headed to the goldfields but not to search for gold. He saw a need for supplying vegetables to hungry miners by starting a market garden in a place north of Bendigo called Manangatang. Hannah was living with him when she became ill and died of peritonitis in 1862. I always thought that it was very sad that she had come all that way as free settler to die in a strange place, so very different from the London where she was born and raised. After his mother's death Robert married an Irish girl by the name of Hannah Tierney and moved to Castlemaine where he carried on with his market gardening where the soil was better. Robert and Mary had four children and their youngest daughter, Hannah, was my grandmother. My two grandmothers were cousins. Mum and Dad were second cousins. From which part of Hannah Storey Binks large family are you descended? June. (You can contact me on my private email address at:
davidjunefrank@bigpond.com.au)