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Nov 20, 2024 •
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John was apparently born 2 March 1813 at Windsor, NSW, one of six children born to Thomas GREEN and Catherine McLAUGHLIN. I have very little information about him, except that
he was admitted to th...
Jun 27, 2022 •
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In 2022 I discovered that I (in NSW Australia) am related to these three who were born in the 1840s in New Zealand. Their father Thomas was brother to my gt-gt-grandfather William Green.
Catherine...
Feb 16, 2022 •
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In January 2022 I received an email from a 4th cousin, Kate, related through Catherine Delaney/McLaughlin. Kate descends from Susannah Bambridge, a child of Catherine's second relationship. I sent her...
Dec 13, 2019 •
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In early 2019 I bit the bullet and had a DNA test done through Ancestry, and took advantage of a discounted 1-year subscription at the same time. A few weeks later I received my results, and began to ...
Aug 28, 2011 •
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John arrived in Sydney via Hercules in 1832, aged 14. He had been convicted at the Old Bailey in London for stealing a handkerchief.
In 1842 he married Mary Ann BAKER, a convict via Henry Wellesley...
Sep 1, 2010 •
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William WILLIAMS has been my brick wall for over 35 years. I know that he was born about 1810, and lived in Hobart between 1852 and 1867, but I don't know where he came from or went to! Without a deat...
Sep 1, 2010 •
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Mary Ann GREEN was born about 1806 at Green Hills NSW (later renamed Windsor by Governor Macquarie). There is no mention of her birth (or those of her five siblings) in the records of the NSW Registra...
Sep 1, 2010 •
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Catherine TIERNEY arrived in NSW with the rest of her family aboard the Queen Victoria on 26 July 1841. The ship's papers listed a large family:
* Michael TIERNEY, a 37 year old labourer, son of Ro...
Sep 1, 2010 •
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Everitt SUMMONS arrived in NSW via the Brothers. The 1828 Census of NSW lists a SUMMONS family group of six:
* Everett - 35 yrs, came free Brothers in 1825, protestant, servant, working for Austral...
Sep 1, 2010 •
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Cornelius O'NEAL seemed an unusual name, until I started researching the man who married my gt-gt-grandfather's sister. Sarah SWADLING came to NSW with her brother William and his wife and children vi...
Sep 1, 2010 •
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George MUDIE a blacksmith, his wife Agnes/Anne COOK (or COCK) and their daughters Frances Matilda and Margaret arrived in NSW on the John Barry on 8 September 1837 from Scotland. The ship was quaranti...
Sep 1, 2010 •
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Elizabeth LOGUE and her sister Emily arrived in NSW aboard the Sabrina, on July 10 1854. According to the ship's papers, they were both natives of Stillorgan, co. Dublin, Ireland, Protestants, and abl...
Sep 1, 2010 •
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Thomas William Wood LANE died at Surry Hills, Sydney on 15 April 1890. His death certificate stated that his parents were Thomas and Eliza, that he had lived 58 years in NSW, was 77 years of age and b...
Sep 1, 2010 •
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William GREEN was the eldest child of two convicts, Thomas GREEN and Catherine DELANEY or McLAUGHLIN. Together they had six children:
1. William, b. ca. 1804, Green Hills NSW, m. 1849 Sydney, to Ma...
Sep 1, 2010 •
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James COLEMAN arrived in Sydney via the Emerald Isle on 23 Dec 1841 from Louth, Ireland. The ship's papers describe him thus:
* a native of Ardee, county Louth
* his parents were Thomas and Judith...
Sep 1, 2010 •
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Samuel BRITTON arrived in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) as a convict via the Gilmore on 22 March 1832. He had been convicted at the Old Bailey in London almost a year beforehand, on 7 April 1831, f...
Sep 1, 2010 •
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William Keast BATE arrived in NSW via the Malvina Vidal on 24 June 1853, with his wife Mary Ann NO(R)SWORTHY. They had married only months before in Plymouth, just before leaving England. The immigran...
Sep 1, 2010 •
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Update, 2021: DNA testing has now linked me to other families descended from David STIBBLES and Elizabeth BARNET of Dundee, so they are definitely the parents of John. He is no longer a mystery!
Jo...
Aug 25, 2010 •
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Carl John Ludvig (John Louis) KJELSBERG was one of six brothers born in Haugesund to Oluf Fredrik KJELSBERG and Henriette Jandine JANSEN. He arrived in South Australia in 1880 as a crewman on John Ren...
Aug 25, 2010 •
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William SWADLING and his wife Elizabeth (WATSON) arrived in Sydney, NSW in Dec 1838 via James Pattison with three children. Nine more children were born in NSW. William was a sawyer, and many of his c...