A little background, I have been working on my family tree and I came across some hand written notes from my great aunt. In her notes she documents names and dates which is great information however at the end of the note she writes the below information. Thomas Quealy’s father was one of 13 men who disappeared while on an exploration trip into the interior of Australia. The company was thereafter referred to as “Quealy’s Unlucky 13" (history of Australia.) should be 1850 That is it, no other information. My question is, has anyone heard of this Quealys Unlucky 13? I understand Australia is huge my guess is the trip would have originated from the Brisbane area seeing this is where some of my ancestors along that family tree are from. Google turned up nothing for me, figured reddit might be worth a shot.

I was sent here from /r/australia/