Download or read book Below These Mountains written by Lyall R. Ford and published by . This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Henry Mills emigrated with his parents in 1865. He became a photographer and traveled throughout Queensland, eventually settling in a mining camp which came to be known as Mount Britton. In 1882 he married Mary Ann Louisa Ricketts and they raised six children in the rough, difficult atmosphere of Mount Britton where John Henry continued to try to strike it rich. The strike never came and the family eventually moved, long after most of the other miners had left for new gold fields. The family settled in 1908 in Mackay where John henry died in 1919. Descendants live in Australia.