Welcome to Gilmour Atkins website, which has been set up to provide information of 
interest to family members about our ancestors and their descendents.  

In due course, this site can be a repository of historical information and a more 
extensive range of items of interest about our ancestors, or for that matter living 
family members.  So any further information, photographs, news paper clippings, 
articles and other documents that are suitable for publication on the site are very 
welcome.   These should be provided in either PDF or JPEG format, so that files can 
be loaded directly onto the web site.  Please provide identification for individuals 
in photographs, and as much background information as possible about items of 
interest.

A second version of this site will be launched in about twelve months, which will 
provide 
   • a greater number of citations for sources of information e.g. certificates of 
     births and marriages;
   • a greater number of photographs;
   • new family member details;
   • corrections identified following the release of this site to family members;

Extent of information
Where possible, the family lines have been tracked back to the person who arrived in 
Australia.  As far as possible, information has been cited back to an historical 
record e.g. Certificates of births, deaths, marriages, etc.  Further information is 
needed about the ancestors who lived in the United Kingdom and Ireland, so if you are 
travelling that way and have the time, some local research could add to 
our information database. 

The only lineage that I could not reliably link to an overseas family is the Atkins 
family.  The first reliable information for this family line is Benjamin Atkins who 
was reported as being born in 1810 in Dorset.  He apparently moved from Melbourne to 
Adelaide in 1844, which is the start of my citable information.

Thanks
Thanks to every family member who has contributed to the research for this family 
tree.  A particular thanks to Alison Byrnes for her detailed information about the 
Byrnes family.

Thanks to Dana Burnett for assistance with the construction and maintenance of this 
website.

Privacy
The site has been set up with access only by user name and password to ensure that 
the commonly known family information remains with family members.  Information about 
living family members will only be visible to people with sign-in access.

Access to site
Please send me, Mike Gilmour, a message by clicking on the ‘Request Invitation’ 
hyperlink above.  Please provide some information that will allow me to 
identify that you are a member of the family.