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attention peter haynes
This is from the land of the all-conquering Kangaroos and the recently defeated Wallabies.
Having nothing to do a work one I decided to try my luck on the internet and see if I could find out the meaning of my surname and if there was anything on the net regarding it. As it is an unusual name and not many of us in Australia i just had an idea to see if I could trace the background of the name and see if there were any relations out there. Whilst certainly not an ancestor, my family could probably be a descendant of William Pulham who migrated to Australia and New Zealand.
My grandfather was a "John William Pulham" and that was also my fathers name. The names John, William and Francis apparently were used a lot for the males in my family. His early life was apparently lived in South Australia before he met and married my grandmother and moved to rural New South Wales.
Not much is known about my grandfathers past (He is the "oldest pulham" that I have ever heard of. All I know is that he was married twice, his second wife being my grandmother. His first family consisted of two daughters who never married and lived and died in South Australia.
He was a bookmaker and at some stage was considered well off. Story has it that he owned most of the business section of the country town where I was born. A place called Coonabarabran (aboriginal for meeting place by the waters), in central northwest of New South Wales.
I have never met one lot of cousins with the surname, as my aunts married and obviously had different surnames and my uncle was killed in world war 2 and as far as I know did not marry. But I could find out more from my one surviving aunt and perhaps my mother would know a bit more about my grandfather and his background.
The family name as I said is not a common name and there are not many of us in Australia, there is an internet entry for a Raymond Pulham in New Zealand that I found. But not much information to go with it.
With four boys two sisters, four nieces and eight grandsons my family is probably the largest collection of Pulhams in New South Wales if not Australia. So there are plenty of opportunities to keep the name going over here.
My aunt would probably have the majority of any personal effects from her father as she is the only survivng child of my grandfather.
I have seen pictures of the Pulhams that are on the net in the UK and it shocked me to see one picture of a woman in uniform during WW II because she looks so much like my aunt, who also served in the forces in australia during the war. Also in some of the photos a prominent square jaw looks like a family trait, especially with the men. My mother has always called it the German side coming out in the Pulhams, I do not know if she is referring to a German ancestory or just be cynical.
Do you have any iformation on the William Pulham who migrated to Australia and New Zealand? It may be a long shot but the coincidence of the same christian names for males which my parents carried on with, one son and he with one of his sons, seems uncanny for continuing a family trait with boys names.
If I can get any information from my aunt who is in her seventies I will pass it on if you like. This information may also be of help to any others of the same surname who are doing family trees.
cheers raymond pulham
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