Daniel Hancock was takes from his home in Berkshire in 1830 and transported for seven years because he dared to stand up against the mechanisation of the agricultural industry that threatened the survival of his family and friends. He came to New South Wales, to a country so vastly different from everything he had ever known. And yet he realised he had been handed an opportunity that never would have presented itself back home. Daniel Hancock will never be immortalised in the history books of our nation, and yet it is he and those like him who made up the foundation on which our country was built. A Convict in the Family brings to life those early days of settlement in outback New South Wales and paints a picture of the hard life of those pioneers that paved the way for our future." -- Back cover.