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Hi,
I am trying to find out where the original Lay's in my family originated from. I live in Tasmania and John Lay and Mary Ellen Andrews ended up emigrating to Tasmania and having my direct ancestor Charlotte Rebecca Lay. I have been unable to fi...
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LAYFAMILY
Hi,
I hope your research is going well. I am looking for information about the family of Barbara Robertson. She married Thomas Campbell in Midlothian Scotland and one of her children was Peter Campbell related to me through marriage. Any informati...
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ROBERTSIB
Helen Hickock was my mothers birth mane, she married my dad Floyd A Stockton after the Koran war. She had two brothers Donald & Cliff who were my uncles. Donald lived in Buffalo N.Y. and Cliff around Jamestown N,Y.
My mother has been married two t...
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HICKOCK
I have now decided to tackle my "brick walls". So let's start with Thomas ROACH. I know that Thomas ROACH was the son of Thomas ROACH and Eliza PASSMORE of Horsley Downs, London. I know he was born 1824 and that he married Jane NAIRN in 1850 in Perth...
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PASSMORE, ROACH
DART marriages 1919-1930 Victoria Australia.
Males
Lawrence Lyall
married: 1919 Ruby LADLOW.
Louis
married: 1919 Vi May KING.
Edward James Royden
married: 1921 Catherine Mary Jane PILMORE.
Frederick Hartley
married: 1921 Ruby Ethel...
Surnames:
CROCKER, DART, DUNPHY, EARL, FOSKET
and 25 more
Looking for Haestier "“ Spurgeon in Johannesburg South Africa
Thanks to a member of familytreecircles I have obtained some information, which just might help if there is someone out there looking for our branch of the family here in England
My ...
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HAESTIER, HAYES, SPURGEON
John Sexton and Jane Hogan are my maternal great grandparents.
John was born about 1847 & Jane in 1853. This has been calculated from their age as listed on the Passenger List on their journey to Australia on the ship the "Pathan" in 1884. As well ...
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SEXTON AND HOGAN
Researching the BALL family of Poplar England. William BALL married Bessie Beatrice Rose BALL(nee HART) and had a son William Robert Samuel BALL and a daughter Bessie Elizabeth BALL.
Bessie and her son William later emigrated to New Zealand and r...
Surnames:
BALL, HOOD
My paternal great great grandmother Christina or Christiana came from Scotland to Hobart Tasmania early in 1800's. She had two children Christina in 1844 and Samuel in 1847, but was not married.
I can find no record of her arrival in Hobart.
I ha...
Surnames:
REID
The original Parsons and Long's to New Zealand went goldmining in Gabriels Gully, Central Otago. Does anyone have confirming information of their time in the area.
Surnames:
LONG, PARSONS
An ancestor on my late mothers side of the family was a Richard Harland b.1592, d.1689,aged 97 years old .
Richard Harland who sided with the winning Royalists in the English Civil War and was rewarded by Charles II in 1660 with the ownership of Sut...
Their son Richard John " Jack Grenfell ( my namesake )a Sgt. in the NZRAF during WW11 was killed in action on 29/6/1942 and is buried in Feltwell ( St. Nicholas ) Churchyard in England.
If anyone has family tree information they would like to share ...
William Lackey was born in New Jersey about 1875, he married "Harriett", "Hattie", "Harriet" Lackey born 1876 in New Jersey. I have the 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 US Federal Census for them. William's Parents are listed as being born in... Father, Rh...
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LACKEY
Vir Vacharaj Solanki
Vachara Dada / Vachhra Dada /Vasra Dada also known as Bhatiji Maharaj / Bhathiji Maharaj is a folk deity of Gujarat state in India. He is an eminent warrior-hero of the region. Hindus and Muslims alike honor him.
According ...
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SOLANKI
DREDGE marriages 1843-1900 Victoria Australia.
Males
Theophilus
married: 1843 Louisa WILKINSON.
William Gilpin
married: 1847 Eleanor EDWARDS.
Denis Radford
married: 1861 Jane GILBERT.
Joseph
married: 1866 Mary STARBUCK.
Peter
m...
Surnames:
BLAIR, BOWMAN, BYERS, DONOVAN, DREDGE
and 25 more