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FLETCHER
I am searching for information, especially the death record, of Sophia Andrews, born 1869 in Heart's Desire, Newfoundland, Canada. She married Aaron Andrews of Scilly Cove, Newfoundland, in 1891. She had at least one sibling, Thomas Andrews. She died...
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ANDREWS
I have a friend whose surname is Downey. He thinks he is descended from Joseph Downey who was a seaman on the Lady Penryn in the First Fleet. Joseph had a male child with Sarah Bellamy about the time they arrived but the child known as Joseph Downey ...
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DOWNEY
I lived in Castlemaine at the approx time 1946 at Milkmaids flat. At that time there were only two houses that I remember we lived in one and my Uncle Mannie I think and his wife lived in the other. He used to tend a very rough golf course.I was abou...
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BAXTER, KELLY, MATHER
Watson was Daphne's married name.
Daphne was born in New Zealand on 25 November 1931.
She passed away in Christchurch 26 October 2000.
Her husband's name, her maiden name, would be helpful.
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WATSON
My great grandfather John Sheehy arrived in NZ with his siblings and parents on ship Inverness around 1874.John went on to marry Maria Scahill and had several children.If anyone has a family tree including my great grandparents and would like to shar...
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SCAHILL, SHEEHY
2) married Sarah Ann Hammock 9/3/1853 (no children)in Barbour, AL, divorced 1854. 3) married Julia Sanders in 1854. Children: Ruben Luther 1855, Mary 1857, Sarah 1858 (all in Barbour, AL). Death 1859, while married to Julia Sanders, in Barbour, Alaba...
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QUATTLEBAUM, SANDERS, WHATLEY
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KEARNEYCOGLE, SHERIDANDEVANEYHOLMES
This journal is written out of respect to the original inhabitants of the area, the Boon Wurrung, and those such as Carolyn Briggs and Auntie Faye who are striving to reconstruct the Boon Wurrung language.
Today I was looking online for a parish o...
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BOONWURRUNG, BRIGGS
Specifically looking for Date of Death details and any issue. Required as my aunt died and we are trying to sort out her will.
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COPLAND, MIGGINS
Looking for family information on my Great Great Grandparents Amiria Mapi (Amelia Murphy) and Arthur Alfred ONeill (Clark and Karaka). All I know is that Amiria was decended from Tohanga Mapi and are from Urakura. Amelia and Arthurs son Murray Clar...
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CLARK, KARAKA, MAPI, MURRAY, ONEILL
The James (Jacob) Henkel b.Warzberg, Bavaria 1823. He was a bandmaster in the 2nd Punjab Regiment 1870-1890's before moving to Tasmania with his wife Honora Coleman and their children who were all born in India. He also claimed to have been in the ...
Arthur was born in Fulham, Middlesex, England about 1846. He married Mary Anne Millington in 1876 in Leicester. Son Roland Arthur Cowdery Martin was born in 1876.
Have found his name spelled Martin/Martyn and Marton.
Mary Anne died in 1893 bu...
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MARTIN, MARTON, MARTYN
Researching Samuel Gleghorn born 1781 -1785 Inveresk with Musselburgh, Midlothian to James Cleghorn and Betty Scot/Scott. Some other sites have him born in County Antrim, but as his mother and father (if they were James and Betty) were married and d...
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CLEGHORN, GLEGHORN
I have a George Davis McDonald, b 1861 Kentucky whose father possibly died in the Civil war. His mother, Louisa (Eliza) Morris is with him in 1870 census in Hickman, Ky. The family story is that his father, possibly named George as well, died short...