The story of child convict Billy Freeman, who lived out the majority of his adult life in Macclesfield, has been unearthed and turned into a revealing book by Alan Atkinson.
Mr Atkinson is a former ABC journalist, who, as an Englishman, believed he had no ties to Australia.
That was until his sister rang him in the middle of the night and said ‘guess what? you have got an ancestor, not only th...
