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Comment by BOB MAY on May 11, 2011 at 9:36pm

Yes its good to see all those records coming online

Gues which County I want That lonley red dot in the northern half completely surrounded by layers of green :))

Comment by BOB MAY on May 11, 2011 at 2:15pm

Hi Maree

Most of my Ausy research is SA and Qld

Oseas Germany Poland England Scotland? and Ireland

Oh what a help for your Irish research, they are a troublesome lot

Comment by Co Ordinator on May 11, 2011 at 9:00am

in reply to your question yes it is general discussion on what you are looking for etc; The top one above is for the sole purpose of answering the request in detail to the inquirer and the other is for such as you have posted in helping others find their families.

Wayne

 

Comment by Co Ordinator on May 11, 2011 at 7:06am

Welcome Maree

Im sure you will be called upon especially the India hunting.

Wayne

Comment by Co Ordinator on May 9, 2011 at 5:56am

Another welcome heck this getting busy now

This is what we want

Welcome Garry to out page

 

Wayne

Comment by garryr on May 8, 2011 at 10:20pm

New to the group. Currently living in Canberra but hoping to buy at the NSW south coast next week. Interest in genealogy ranges around the island of Pantelleria (home of the Raffaeles) and England (the home of the Parnells). My partner (Liz) and I have done work on our antecedents and, on Macs, use Reunion 9.

Comment by Co Ordinator on May 8, 2011 at 6:22am

Welcome Shelly to our page as you can see we have had visitors helping Carol in her quest.

Plus I would like to say to all the Mum's here, " I trust that you all had a wonderful day with your family and that you were pampered on hand and foot"

 

Wayne

Comment by Shelley on May 8, 2011 at 6:12am

Hello, I'm Shelley. It took me a while, but I've finally joined up here. I've been researching my family on and off for over 20 years which makes it sound like I should have a lot more done than I have! My ancestors all arrived in or made their way to Victoria from various locations in the UK. I'm looking forward to participating in the group.

Comment by Carol Ann on May 7, 2011 at 10:18pm

Wow, just home from Mother's Day brekky and checked my emails to see all of these genealogywise ones in my inbox - thanks everyone for the responses:)

 

My missing relie is Margaret Meynell born 1862/63 Sunderland UK according to the 1871 census onwards.  There is only one Margaret Meynell 1863 Durham UK which I saw very early on and very wrongly assumed it was her and I'd deal with it later! 

 

I recently purchased the certificate and was somewhat stunned to found out it wasn't my Margaret after all. 

 

Also somewhere around this era, her father John Died (bap 1824 Durham) and his death has yet to be found. 

 

Gosh I've collected so much information on the family but none of it is helping at all....

 

I sent away for Margaret's marriage certificate to see who she named as her father and it's John Meynell deceased. 

 

I sent away for her brother James, bith certificate  (born Birkenhead Cheshire)  - and again Dad is named as John Meynell.

 

1871 census Mum is suddenly a widow but with a new child in the family ..Margaret.  One interesting thing I noticed was that in one census she is Margaret Ann....her marriage certificate has Margaret Ann but the Ann is crossed through by the Clergy of the time.

 

John 1824 married Sarah Dowey in Newcastle on Tyne 1850.  They travelled down to  Hartlepool where baby Thomas Vaux Meynell was born 1850 (all middle name Vaux are accounted for - I mention this because you may come across John Vaux Meynell and he is a nephew of my John).

 

In the 1851 Census, my John, his wife Sarah and baby Thomas are in Northfleet Kent (spelt Maham or Malam depending on which site is used). 

Second son John is born Northfleet Kent 1852. 

Third son James is born Birkenhead Cheshire 1855 and sadly they lose Thomas Vaux Meynell prior to James death. 

 

1861 Census mum is home in Sunderland with John and James (Dad is a seaman and not home). 

Have tried as many name variations as I can think of.  I know that mum Sarah nee Dowey had a sister Margaret but she is in the census with her sibblings in Newcastle. 

 

Have been searching for John's (1824) death for a long long time and recently felt I was possibly too close to the situation now and missing something vital in my searching so raised this with others which has resulted in me now searching for Margarets birth as well hahahaha 

 

Sarah was supposedly born Northumberland or London although I haven't purchased her birth certificate yet as I haven't pinpointed where she was actually born (and too busy with John and Margaret:)). 

 

My mind has gone through the meanderings of was Sarah so grief stricken at the loss of her husband that she overlooked the registration of her daughters birth and her husbands death: were the children really Johns (1824) and as Sarah remarried to William Henderson in 1874, was my John a fly by nighter because Sarah was always at home with the children alone at Census time (this last bit changed my thinking when he was found in the 1851 Census that didn't show up in a variable name search:)).

 

From memory I found one Margaret Dowey birth but not being familiar with the areas, it seemed too far away from Newcastle for Sarah to maybe have stayed at the home of her parents.

 

Do we have a Master Genealogist amongst us or certainly one with more experience than I have? 

 

Would love some more tips if you can think of any, but really appreciate the great response so far - thank you all:)

 

 

Comment by BOB MAY on May 7, 2011 at 2:01pm

Carol

have you search under the mothers maiden name?

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