My father Gil (Gilbert) Bloomer (1936-1994) of Dumbleyung in Western Australia who was a farmer, soldier, shearer, jackaroo and jack of all trades. A gifted story teller with a sparkling sanguine personality. Father of four sons and three step children. Was an Australian soldier in Korea and Japan in 1950's. His direct male line ancestors were Irish ancestry soldiers in the Russian Empire living in Tartu in Estonia of the surname O'Reilly (and Bloomer). His ancestor Edward O'Reilly (1801-1866) of Tartu used his mother Elizabeth Abigail Bloomer's surname of Bloomer (Barzel). Elizabeth's father James Alexander Bloomer (1754-1801) used the Bloomer surname of his mother Abigail Bloomer (1737-1785) of the New York Bloomer family. Gilbert belongs to the O'Reilly branch of the R1b M222 A260 y-dna tree. My father was of Jewish, Catholic (Frankist), Anglican and Methodist Hebrew Christian ancestry but was not reared with any religion and was an atheist until he was 36 when he read the Bible to prove to my mother that religion was rubbish and was converted to faith and was then baptised in the Anglican Church. He had a gift of healing and experienced mystical insights and dreams. On his paternal side he is descended from Rebbe Nachman of Breslov and a son of Reb Nosan (Nathan) of Nemirov (BRNN Brenan) and the Catholic son of the Alter Rebbe of Lubavitch Hasdisim- Moshe ben Zalman.
My mother Laurie (Beth Lorraine Bartram) of Dumbleyung (1931-2005) an extraordinary woman of creative talents, intellect and rich spirituality. She grew up on "Glen Avon" farm. Mother of six sons and one daughter. Her first husband was a Latvian-born Baron of Russian, German and German Jewish ancestry. She belongs to I1a1b mt-dna with T16362C Ashkenazi Jewish marker. She was of Jewish, Catholic and Anglican ancestry but her parents were not religious and she and her sister Faye were converted to evangelicalism by Billy Graham in 1959 and then they became a practicing evangelical Anglicans and both joined a Messianic Jewish (Hebrew Christian) group. She experienced mystical gifts and had prophetic insights. Her direct maternal line goes back to the Dutch Jewish community. Many of her Dutch Jewish West relatives (3rd -5th cousins) were exterminated in the Nazi death camps especially Sobibor and Auschwitz. She became more interested in her Jewish ancestry after she came to faith and had great respect and admiration for the ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic Jews and traditionalist Catholics even though she was neither. However she did receive the last anointing on her death bed from a Catholic priest like her grandmother had before her. Her sister Faye became a Catholic at the age of 83.
My maternal grandfather Hillyer (standing behind the piano) with his brothers and sisters in Dumbleyung. Hillyer was sent to live with his grandfather James Bartram in Beverley (a farmer and mill owner of Avon Dale and Emerald Hills farms) when he was about 5 to attend the Beverley School. His grandfather put him on a horse to ride to school and made him get back on every time he fell off and he could ride by the time he got to the school. 
My grandfather Hillyer of Dumbleyung (1883-1949). A leading grazier. He firstly farmed with his father and brothers at "Wheatfield" on the edge of the Dumbleyung Lake and then later he farmed at "Glen Avon". Father of three sons and three daughters. He belongs to the R1b DF27 branch of the y-dna tree. Bartram ancestors lived in Norfolk since the 16th century coming from Minorca a Spanish island. Juan Bertran a converso of Sephardi Jewish background became John Bartram. Hillyer believed in God but was not religious. 
My maternal grandmother Linda Lewis (1902-1968) of Dumbleyung aged 15. She was a farmer's daughter and lived until she was six at "Hillsborough " farm in Corowa and then at "Hillsborough" farm in Dumbleyung District. Daughter of Leonard (he arrived in Australia in 1875 as a 3 year old) and Hannah Lewis (of "Boileau" farm in Echuca on the Murray River who was born in Rochester in Victoria in 1874) of Corowa, Dumbleyung and Northcliffe. Mother of six. She believed in God but was not interested in religion but did insist that her sons and grandsons should be circumcised on the 8th day..
My mother's paternal grandfather Henry Bartram (1849-1930) of Beverley and Dumbleyung father of Hillyer. A farmer in Beverley and Dumbleyung. Father of three sons and five daughters. He was secretly engaged to Elizabeth Kersley for 10 years before marrying her in 1883 just before the birth of their first child. James Bartram (Henry's father) did not approve of their relationship due to rumours of Aboriginal blood in Elizabeth. To escape the gossip they moved to Dumbleyung in 1886 where Elizabeth's father and mother George and Eliza (nee Whittington) Kersley had already settled. George Kersley was born in Hampshire in 1817 and arrived in Western Australia in 1841 on the "Ganges" with his brother Richard. He married his wife Eliza Whittington in 1851 at her father's farm at Guildford. He was to become a farmer in the Beverley District and then in Dumbleyung where he was the first settler with his family. Before anyone settled at Lake Dumbleyung George Kersley with his presumed son George Kersley Jnr (but may have been the biological son of his brother Richard and his sister-in law-Julia Whittington) and Henry Bartram (the son of his friend and partner James) had driven the sheep from Beverley to Dumbleyung.
My mother's paternal great grandfather James Bartram (1827-1905) of Norfolk and Beverley the son of William John Bartram (1801-1842) a farmer in the Erpingham/Aylsham/ Buxton region of Norfolk and Ann Jane Strange (1806-1835). He was the father of Henry. This photo was taken of James with his relatives on a visit back to Norfolk in England in 1858 (aged 31). He brought back with him the first wheat stripper. He was a farmer, miller, post man, Justice of the Peace and involved in many other community activities. His grandmother Lady Bartram (on the far right) was born an Italian Jewess. He arrived in Australia in 1843. James was the father of two sons and six daughters. His daughters married into the Fleay, Edwards, Mitchell and Potts families. His youngest son John Robert Bartram (1861-1937) married his relative Julia Sophia Strange (1875-1929).
My paternal grandfather Hillyer's maternal great-grandmother Elli (aka Jane Bishop) known as Mrs Whittington of Dutch, Papua New Guinean and Aborigine ancestry (1817-1875). She assumed the identity of her husband's first wife after her death in 1831 in order to hide her background. She was born in 1817 at Talbot Creek near Beverley with a "white" Aboriginal father (from a white Tribe near Lake Austin and passed himself off as an Afghan camel driver) and a part Nyunga mother (daughter of King Jerong of the Nyungas with his conquerored "white" Aboriginal wife Dini or Dinimia the last White Aboriginal Queen of Balardung).
My great great great grandfather Thomas Williams (1803-1892) of London, Wicklow, Jerusalem and Western Australia and grandfather of Henry Bartram. His father Solomon was an artist and his grandfather also Solomon of Wicklow was a Jewish glazier and goldsmith. He arrived in Australia in 1841 on the "Ganges". Father of possibly two sons and 5 daughters. One son John Williams came to Western Australia in 1839 and became a station owner at Northampton and his other son or possibly nephew Major Solomon Williams did not come to Australia.
My great great great grandmother Eliza Leason (Pollard/Segal) (1808-1850) of Jerusalem, Wicklow and Western Australia wife of Thomas Williams. She was the daughter of a Jewish Rabbi from Safed in Palestine. She arrived in Australia in 1841 on the "Ganges". She died on her son's station (ranch) at Northampton called Willow Gulli in 1850. She and her husband Thomas (who had traveled to the Holy Land with the Jewish evangelist Joseph Wolff) left the Holy Land after the huge earthquake of 1837 taking with them some Hebrew manuscripts belonging to her family.
Solomon Williams (1757-1824) the artist and the father of Thomas Williams who married as his second wife and mother of Thomas, Sarah Ann Lee (1785-1837) a sister of Professor Samuel Lee. He had three daughters (Mary, Ellen or Eleanor and Deborah) by his first wife and two daughters (Charlotte and Emily) with his second wife. He was born in Wicklow and died in Dublin.
My mother's great -grandfather Leonard Horatio Lewis (1872-1956) the son of Matilda who was born in Manchester in 1872 of a family from Norley Cheshire. He arrived with his parents in Sydney in 1875 on the "Surrey". Lived in Corowa NSW, Dumbleyung and Northciffe in Western Australia. He was a farmer at "Hillsborough Farm" in Corowa. After their house burnt down three times (twice due to bushfires) he moved with his famiy to Dumbleyung in Western Australia where he named his new farm "Hillsborough Farm" after the one in Corowa. His brother-in-law Michael (Uncle Mick) Kissane who lived near him in Dumbleyung named his farm "Boileau" after his family's farm in Echuca.
My mother's maternal great-grandfather James Lewis (1833-1880). He is said to have been once the Squire of Norley in Cheshire as well as owning the Tiger Head Inn in Norley. His father Samuel Lewis (1801-1866) is said to be an illegitimate son of King George IV with his mistress Mrs Mary Lewis. Mrs Mary Lewis and her husband William Lewis ran a brewery/pub in Brighton and William was related to the Lewis and Woodhouse families of Norley. Samuel Lewis was reared at Norley Hall by his relatives. James' wife Matilda West was also a granddaughter of William Payne (said to be a son of Maria Fitzherbert with George IV).
My maternal grandmother's paternal grandfather Michael Kissane (b.1847) of Gortsnascarry in Kerry near Beaufort who arrived in Australia in 1869. When he was 13 in 1860 accompanied by his father he went to live with his great-grandfather Chief Rabbi Raphael Kassin (1774-1871) in the Middle East. His father dropped him in the Middle East and died on the return sea journey to Ireland. Michael married Anne Ennis in 1871 in Geelong. He died in 1890 at Echuca in Victoria in Australia of the yellow fever where he had been a farmer at "Boileau Farm". Two of his teenage daughters also died of yellow fever, Rose at 13 years in 1890 and Margaret at 17 in 1896. He was the father of 10 children.
My father's maternal great-grandfather James Joseph Montefiore Nunn (1825-1904) of Great Wilbraham in Cambridgeshire and Melbourne in Victoria. Arrived in Australia in 1853. He was the son of James Nunn (1796-1864) and Elizabeth Farrell (1798-1870) the daughter of Thomas and Sarah (nee Montefiore) Farrell. He was born in Great Wilbraham and died at Moorabin in Victoria in Australia. The Nunn surname was originally Nunes from Barbados who were in the liquor trade. He was a Methodist Hebrew Christian. Many of this family and some of the Montefiore had become Methodists under the preaching of the Hebrew Christian Methodist priest and evangelist the Rev Joseph Orton. These families maintained links with the Synagogue and the Methodist Church and were open to certain Jewish observances in the home.
My father's great-great-great great uncle Sir Moses Montefiore of England. The Montefiore family were Italian Jews who came to England in the 18th century from Leghorn. They were descended from a Marrano or Converso Mexican family descended from the Carvajal family. Their direct male line ancestor Judah Leon Montefiore (b.1605) was the son of Joseph Leon (b.1586) who was born in Mexico and his parents were Jorge Almeida (1555-1609) and Leonor de Carvajal (1568-1596). Joseph Leon's wife was Esther Lumbroso (b.1592) whose father Juan de Carvajal took the name Jacob Lumbroso (b.1570) and was a brother of Leonor de Carvajal and Luis de Carvajal aka Joseph Lumboso. Esther Lumbroso' mother Sarah Abigail Benveniste (b.1572) was a descendant of the family of Donna Gracia Nasi.
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