This website details the descendants of three of my forebears. It is incomplete  and will inevitably contain errors, nevertheless there are over 1000 names on  the database and I felt it was time to make them available to any interested  members of the family as well as to researchers elsewhere. If anyone is  able to add or correct any data I would very much appreciate them contacting me  and I will make the necessary changes. I would like to thank two other Box  descendants who have been part of an ongoing research into the Box family for  more than 30 years, Margaret Gilbert in Victoria and Sandra Proctor in NSW.

DANIEL BOX,my great great grandfather was born in Kendal, Cumbria, his parents were Thomas and Margaret Box. He was the son of Thomas Box. As a young man he  enlisted in the Lancashire Militia in 1803 and then later transferred to the regular  army, 32nd Foot Regiment, in  1807. He saw overseas service in Ireland and the  Spanish Peninsular Wars until his discharge in 1814. Prior to joining the  regular army he married Christiana Maria Sturm in Exeter, Devon. From  familytradition through Isabella Box, Christiana was supposedly closely related  to Christoph Christian Sturm, a prominent Lutheran pastor who presided over St  Peter's church in Hamburg, Germany, in 1778, however no evidence can be found  to substantiate this. Nothing is known of his whereabouts until 1817 when his  firstborn, Margaret was born in in Kendal. His occupation is shown as Woolcomber.Then followed Frederick (1820), Maria (b1822), William (b1824), 
 Hannah (b1825), Sarah Margaret (b1828)and Thomas Sturm, my greatgrandfather  (b1832). In 1840 Christiana died and a short time later Daniel married Phebe  Bell, a widow - nee Topping - in Old Hutton,Westmorland, now Cumbria, and there  was one daughter, Phoebe (b1842).
 Daniel died in the Union Workhouse at Horton in 1853. Of Daniel's children all  but Maria, Sarah and Phoebe migrated to South Australia from where branches of  the family spread to NSW, Vic and Western Australia.

ROBERT HOLMES, my great grandfather, was born in Kings County, Ireland (now Co  Offaly) in 1832, the seventh of nine children born to John Holmes and his wife,  Jane Hardy. The descendants of the eighth child, William Hardy Holmes, now live  in England. One of them, the late John Hardy Holmes was resposible for all the  early research into the family, to whom I am indebted.  Nothing is known of the  other children. The Holmes' were tenant farmers on Ballylin estate owned by  TheRev I G King, near the town of Ferbane. In 1855 Robert married Maria Wilson  the daughter of John Wilson, farmer born in Ballyloughloe, Co Westmeath and  Jane nee Johnston of Shannonbridge, Co Offaly. Robert and Maria and their  firstborn Jane migrated to Western Australia in 1857 where, like many early  settlers, joined the police force as a part time constable. Later he leased  grazing land from the government south of Mandurah. He committed suicide in  1882 leaving behind his wife and seven children. Despite this tragedy the  family prospered

EBENEZER MARTIN, my greatgrandfather and son of Robert Martin arrived in  Western Australia aboard the 'City of Bristol' on the same voyage as the Holmes  family. Accompanying him were his wife Anne Jane MacClean and their daughter,  Elizabeth and like Robert Holmes he also joined the ploce as a part time  constable working in York and Newcastle (Toodyay). In 1865 he became the  licensee of the Baylup Inn near Toodyay and in 1872 he was licensee of the  Newcastle Hotel.The family headed north to the Pilbara and Ebenezer set himself  up as a contractor doing construction work for the government. by 1995 he had  set himself up as a butcher and he also acquired two gold mining leases in the  Pilbara. He retired to an orchard property on the Preston River in the south  west where he died in 1910 after living a colourful and eventful life.