The author has had a very interesting and varied life. He began life on a dairy farm at the start of the great depression in the 1930, s and managed through tertiary education to eventually become a professional agricultural consultant. Constructing reports has developed his writing skills during the nine decades he has lived so far. Upon retirement in his mid 80's he was able to plan and write this story of his own family line during the last 200 years. His great grandfather was a refugee from the highland clearances in Scotland. He married a young Irish wife who emigrated to Melbourne when the potato famine struck and the English evicted their farm tenants