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May 27, 2018 •
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The name was an alias of a grandson of Baron James McCall of Caithness. Whether he survived in the U.S. after being released from indentured slavery c. 1660's is unknown. The reason he was in slave...
Oct 26, 2017 •
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Who was "Lady" Jackson? Has anyone done the family tree ? Family lore filtered down was that she was a well born Scottish lady, sent out to New Zealand with a husband Michael Jackson (try Googling ...
Oct 15, 2017 •
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Does anyone have Elizabeth's parents, predecessors etc. on a family tree ? Who is Elizabeth PITT (i.e.,, is she of William Pitt's family perhance ?)
Family lore says she went as Governess to India (...
Sep 3, 2017 •
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My husbad has tested with FTDNA, Y-DNA, and disconcertingly, no Rockliff/Rockcliffe shows as as a match. I'm beginning to think that one of the Grandmothers must have "jumped the fence" ... !! Has ...
Jul 3, 2017 •
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This is information I have learned from Rosie Marshall, and Bev Smith, both of Tasmania, regarding the Rockliffs who emigrated to Tasmania in the mid 1800's..
The above mentioned Francis was the so...
Jun 23, 2017 •
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George Duke m. Priscilla Prince, in Whitechapel, London 1849.
He was listed on census as a bricklayer. They lived and raised a family in Chiddingfold, Surrey, England, until emigrating to New Zealan...
Apr 17, 2017 •
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Our family tree lists Henry Whittlestone, b. 1853; m. Emma Chapel in 1877, and emigrated to New Zealand on the "Opawa" in 1879. Their son Harry was born in New Zealand, we we pretty much have all th...
Apr 7, 2017 •
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Does anyone know of and/or the whereabouts of the descendants of Hope (nee Jarvis) and George Wilson, last of Western Australia ? She played drums in their band; he was a pianist. They had at least tw...
Mar 26, 2017 •
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Mary Druid married Richard Wallace. Their son Henry, born 1824, married Mary Blackwell in 1846 at Shinrone, Ireland. Henry and Mary-Anne emigrated to Australia and eventually settled at Boggy Creek...
Jan 23, 2017 •
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I am looking for the forebears of John Dinning probably born c. 1820's who married Hannah Thomas in Northern Ireland. They lived in Garvargh. She was a corn merchant's daughter, and John also became a...
Jan 10, 2017 •
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These anecdotes on Robert Johnston were written by Joyce Ashby, daughter of Robert's youngest daughter Agnes Anne Brownrigg, and from Robert Rockliff, younger son of Robert's eldest daughter Emily Ell...
Jun 13, 2016 •
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He joined the Royal Navy at Woolwich in 1859; sailed on the "Fisguard", "Termagant" (during the American Civil War, and the ship guarded the British Consul); and on the "Falcon" during the Maori Wars ...
Apr 2, 2016 •
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I have a great grandfather whose real name I don't know, and can't track down. He went by the name of William Thomas Jarvis, sometimes William Henry Jarvis. He always said his real name wasn't Jarvi...
May 22, 2015 •
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I would like anyone who has a Sperring family tree to see if the following fits ... but, nothing can ever be proven seeing as we don't have any birth certificates. My g.g.g.grandmother Martha Sperrin...
May 22, 2015 •
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I am looking for the forebears of John Dinning probably born c. 1820's who married Hannah Thomas in Northern Ireland. They lived in Garvargh. She was a corn merchant's daughter, and John also became ...
May 21, 2015 •
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Has anyone researched this family? I believe the father was a builder, and the family consisted mainly of daughters. Sorry to be so vague. One of the daughters married Robert Johnston who came on t...
May 18, 2015 •
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Has someone done the Sperring Family tree for this region - in particular looking for George and William Sperring, their parents, spouses and children ? I suspect my ancestress, Martha Sperring, to ...
May 18, 2015 •
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I would like to know how she came to be in Tasmania - was she born there,? Her parentage. She married John Rockliff, c. 1840's.