I think I would ask the time machine to take me back to 1825. Although I am curious about Farmbrough and Elizabeth, I dont think they are actually part of my family.
In 1825 I could ask
Thomas Brazill, my 4 g grandfather, what it was like for him to be prisoner of Napoleon for 7 years, what was life like when he came home in 1814.
Christopher Eccles and William Martin, who were your parents and where were you born?
or
Masters Linn, transported to NSW in 1817, about why he seemed to have turned to a life of larceny (from being a bricklayer in a town where there seemed to be plenty of work) and why he could not settle into a life in NSW, and how awful life was on Sarah Island in Macquarie Harbour.
They probably did not live close enough to manage them all in one shot in the time machine, though, and how can I just choose one?
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