but
da_norvegicus has been hanging out in a graveyard.
Again.
Except that this time, it's research.
His mother is me.
My father is George Richards.
His father was Alick Richards.
His father was
George Allen Richards His father was William Richards and his mother was Margaret Richards, nee Royall.
And her parents are here.
They came to Australia in 1836 with their 8 children, and did fairly well. And after all, if from them I am descended, then they can't have been all bad.