This book traces the lives of early settlers in the Wallamba Valley and at Forster in New South Wales. Among those included are the Cheers, Basham, Bowers, Carmichael, Croker, Cromarty, Dargaville, Dunn, Everingham, Godwin, Greenaway, Hardy, Matheson, McClymont, McIntosh, McKinnon, Mead, Nixon, Salter and Startin families.