Australian. Additional “al” needed, unless you use the more colloquial “Stryne” as in the language they speak.
Franks grandmother on his mother’s side was a Pickering. The immigrant ancestor Pickering came to Fiji from criminal country in the early 1800’s, making them one of the oldest part-European families.
The first Pickering to Fiji was Charles Pickering, son of Charles Pickering (England) and Catherine Burn (Dublin, both convicts transported to Sydney in 1807 & 1809 respectively. He was born in 1814 in Twofold Bay (Eden) on the far south coast of NSW. A whaling community. His parents were married in 1818 in Newcastle, the same year his sister Mary Ann was born. Charles Snr was convicted at the Norwich Assizes in 1806.
In 1827 young Charles was charged and convicted with perjury in Sydney town when he gave evidence in support of a claim his father made in relation to monies supposedly paid to a Mrs Clarckson.
“Pickering, who was only 15, was ordered to be transported for two years, with a recommendation that he be kept apart from those who might confirm him in vice and that he be taught a useful trade: Sydney Gazette, 7 July 1829; Australia, 8 July 1829.” from the trial. See link below for trial transcript:
http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/Cases1829-30/html/r_v_pickering_and_baxter__1829.htm
I haven’t found where he served his ‘transportation’. It could have been any of the various penal settlements in the colony. He next turns up in the records when he marries in Rewa, Fiji in early 1830’s.
Here is some more information about the Rounds family of Fiji, who married with Pickerings way back.
http://roundsfiji.tribalpages.com/
Interesting that the original criminal Pickering settled and married in Lomanikoro, Rewa, exactly the place bad boy Frank is trying to stop from holding a Methodist conference and even arrested their chief Ro Teimumu Kepa.
So the Pickerings were criminals sent to Australia and then one of the offspring came to Fiji to escape the law when he killed his little brother while playing.
It is obvious where bad boy Frank gets his genes from. From his historic perspective Fijans are just People for screwing. What else has changed?
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Where and when is Pickering supposed to have 'killed his little brother while playing'. I have not found any record of this. The Charles, who came to Fiji, never had a 'little brother', he just had a little sister. The only crime he committed in Australia was, as a 13 year old boy, he did as his father told him. Where is the crime in that?
Don't blame Frank's crimes on Charles Pickering. There has been a lot of water under the bridge since then. Frank's crimes are exactly that - Frank's Crimes!
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