This is part 1 in a series about the Burns family of Oxford, Oxfordshire.

Regular readers will know that I live in Oxford, New Zealand. But this time we are 19,000 kilometres away in the historic town of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Our story will take us through the two Workhouses and an Industrial School in Oxford, and eventually back to New Zealand where the Burns descendants include an All Black, as well as my nana’s stepmother.