JMF genealogy

Cover for "All our tracks and ways"

This website

This website is devoted to the history of the Fleming, Jolliffe, Kessey and Murphy families of New South Wales, including their forebears. Its creator, Jim Fleming, has been researching and writing family history for over forty years. He has published several books (see his writer website for details) and many family biographies, short stories and detailed research reports (available on the Articles page of this website). In addition, he maintains a third website for his detailed work on the Fleming Clans of the British Isles.

Books

Jim's next book, Scotland’s Fleming Clan, is scheduled for release across two volumes in 2027 and 2028. The first volume that offers new insights into the family's origins and challenges long-held misconceptions. The second volume, planned for 2028, builds on the first volume’s origin story to narrate the family’s successes and challenges from 1400 to 1750 and beyond. (Click the image for more details.)

His previous book, All Our Tracks and Ways, was published in 2024. It provides a history of a pioneering Bourke family headed by James Reed and Frances Heazle, a devoted, resilient and resourceful couple whose lives of initiative and enterprise helped to forge a better future for their ten adult children and eighty-nine grandchildren. Click the image at right for full details about this book.

Latest blog posts

Links to Jim's last few stories and research findings are provided below. For earlier blogs, click on the Blog menu item (or click here).

1/12/2026
Scotland's Fleming Clan
Forthcoming books
1/11/2026
Entwistle Tales
3 articles published
10/7/2023
Mary Lahy's
fate
19/10/2022
Frances Reed
pioneer of Bourke
28/7/2022
William Baker's
arrival in Australia
10/7/2022
Alfred Ernest Whye
one of the first Aboriginal servicemen
8/7/2022
James Murphy's demise

Explore the family tree

Explore the family tree by clicking on any + sign; or the blue [Expand] button. Click on any name to access details about that person.