Five of my sixteen great great grandparents were born within sight of Glastonbury Tor. All five migrated to Australia.

• William Sweet, born in Wellington, Somerset, was a transported convict who found his way back to England after 14 years in Tasmania, then married his niece and migrated back to Victoria for the gold rush.
• Ann Sweet, also born in Wellington, Somerset, married her uncle William. Their avunculate marriage, prohibited by the Church of England, was performed by license in the now-demolished St Augustine the Less parish church in Bristol. Ann used a fake surname to help hide the relationship from the officiant. Marriage by license was offered to couples who wished to avoid the time and publicity of a marriage by banns. Reasons for a marriage by license could be that the woman was pregnant, there was a great age difference between the couple, or the couple wanted to hide their marriage from their families.
  The couple married in early August 1854, and were on an immigrant boat to the Colony of Victoria a few weeks later.
• Sophia Ransom Maidment, born in Westbury, Wiltshire.
• George Bessell, born in Bristol. George's brother Charles was a transported convict (pardoned by Her Majesty 29 June 1846) who sponsored George, his wife Mary Ann, and their four children out to Tasmania in 1854.
• Mary Ann Thorne, born in Claverham, Somerset. Wife of George Bessell.