Family Tree Circles Journals

Looking for FAIR of TN, MO, OK

2013-05-22T20:11:54+01:00

I am Pauline I.FAIR.
My Dad is Arthur O. FAIR b 21 March 1912 OK. & d 22 Dec 1989 CA
His Dad is Robert E. FAIR b 28 April 1887 MO & d 19 Oct 1943 OK
His Dad is John F. FAIR b 22 Sept 1850 TN & d 14 April 1918 MO
His Dad is William b abt 1815 SC Married 17 Sept 1840 Monroe Co.,TN to Temperance Angelina Rains

Looking for more information on William FAIR have more info on Arthur, Robert and John to share ~

looking for bentsen of rhode island

2013-05-22T13:27:11+01:00

looking for koszela family from poland

2013-05-22T13:24:40+01:00

looking for frank ( francis ) bradford married agnes conley from rhode island

2013-05-22T13:21:17+01:00

I am looking for John Stevenson who married Sarah Frances Wild (born Ward) in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1877. He is my great grandfather.

2013-05-22T07:00:27+01:00

Looking for Peter Johnson and mary jane cook family around victoria.aus

2013-05-22T06:50:01+01:00

Looking for Stafford family's from around Geelong,Prt Melbourne

2013-05-22T06:43:02+01:00

looking for anything about Richard Price married Elizabeth Vanhoose?

2013-05-22T04:44:32+01:00

I got nowhere with information I got 3 people who have 2 diff. dads for him and 2 diff. moms. can anyony give me the real information on this subject?

McLeods From Scotland

2013-05-22T04:05:06+01:00

I have traced my family back to Scotland to my great great great Grandparents around 1836 but now I am stuck, can't find any info. I know the parents names are correct but not sure about the spelling. I am looking for info on George and Catherine Maciver McLeod, with Anna McLeod Wetherby as their 4th child.

I am looking for my 2x grandparents Alice Rielly Connolly and Mic/Michail/Michael Connelly.

2013-05-22T01:51:10+01:00

I did not know either existed until a cousin gave me a copy of her grandfathers Baptism Certificate.Her grandfather was Francis Connolly from Redhills, Co Cavan Ireland. My grandmother was his younger sister Bridget. My cousin had a little box full of tiny photos' she had saved from the fire. Her Mother Margaret had been loosing her sight and deemed these of no use to anyone. My couisn and I trolled through the photos' and in the end , as she was leaving she said I could have tham as they were too soiled with age and curled or wrinkled. I scanned them into my computer and took the disc to the store and unlocked 50 years or more , a treasure. The photos' were mainly of My Great Uncle Francis His wife Mary Ann Flannagan Connolly, their 2 daughters Margaret Alice b 1920 and Mary Ann Connolly b 1925 all from Redhills.Among the photos' were my Grandmother Bridget and her females of the Sparks family from Belfast. There are a few of young men who knew the family but no one could put a name to because we grew up in Australia and never met them.The Baptism certificate has Francis details: Parish of Drumlane co Cavan, Francis Connolly, Cranaghan, born 28/6/1887 . Baptised in the Church of Staghall by Rev Edward McGennis. Parents Michael Connolly& Alice Reilly. Sponsors James McMullan and Mary McBrien. You are wondering how I know their name was Connelly. Mic and Alice were married 11/7/1885 in Drumlane Parish ,Mic Connolly from Cranaghan and Alice from Drumlougher. On the cert. I have there are no parents registered but the witness were James McMullen and Bridget Reilly. On the 1901 census that Mic Signed the family were at 74 Ballyconnell, Ballyconnell. The family name was spelled Connelly and on the second page which is hand written the household names are Connelly and the signature was signed Micail Connelly. As I am sure you all know that when someone else is signing your name they at times change the spelling a little. I am sticking to Connelly until Mic dies in or about 1907, I am not exactually sure of the date and the next entry I have is the 1911 census where the family are living at 4 Lisnadurk, Glebe North, Fermanagh. There is just Alice, Francis and Elizabeth or Lizzie.Francis marries Mary Ann Flanaghan and their first daughter Margaret Alice is born in Newtownbutler. Their second daughter Mary Ann or Annie Connolly was born 1925. At this time the family move to Co Cavan and Redhills where they stayed. Francis sisters Mary married a Mr. Smith. Help here would be appreciated,Susan married a Hugh Close in Belfast in 1913. Bridget married John Patrick Sparks in 1913 and Lizzie married ,I think a Mr Martin. Thats is it I don't know anymore. All help would be welcome even the spelling of names and Places. Thank you Marie

looking for eckley of herefordshire

2013-05-22T00:44:44+01:00

Looking for any info of a John Pickering born @1795 Co. Durham. Details of his parents? First wife? His second wife was an Isabella Harrison nee Anderson. He died in 1850 in Gateshead., Durham

2013-05-22T00:09:27+01:00

does anyone know anyone related to greame lesley burnett of christchurch new zealand

2013-05-21T22:27:51+01:00

Gillot ARDRON - Cessnock, NSW

2013-05-21T13:31:35+01:00

GILLOT ARDRON was born 27 March 1858 in Field Head, Dodworth, Yorkshire, England to William ARDRON & Sara EVERSEDGE (?)
He moved/emigrated to Australia and married Sarah Ann Wilson in Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia in 1885
- they had 9 children from 1885-1907

He had a child with Sarah's sister, Jane Hannah Wilson, in 1889, Harold James Nichol (1889-1972) who was born in Sydney then moved to New Zealand where he married Jeannie Adeline Alice FYFE in Whangarei & had 3 children

Gillot was the biological father of Benjamin Thomas Nicol (mother Jane Wilson}
He was married to Jane's sister Sarah Ann Wilson & they moved to Stockton, NSW

Harold was adopted in 1889 (the year of his birth) in Minmi, NSW (20km west of Newcastle) to Mr & Mrs Nichol
Jane married Benjamin NICOL & had another 6 children

in his obituary notice Gillot Ardron had 8 son & 8 daughters surviving (see comments)

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder
- Friday 29 March 1935
OBITUARY MR. GILLOT ARDRON.
The death occurred on Wednesday last, of one of Cessnock's best known and most highly respected citizens in the person of Mr. Gillot Ardron, Rawson-street, Aberdare.
Deceased was 77 years of age, and had resided in the Cessnock district for 25 years. The late Mr. Ardron was a great rifle shot, and was captain of the Cessnock Rifle Club. He was prominently associated with Freemasonry, having first joined Lodge Peninsula at Stockton over 52 years ago. He was a Past master of Lodge Peninsula and also Lodge Thistle Kilwinning, Minmi, and had held active office right up to the time of his death with Lodges Cessnock, Caledonia, and Paxton, all of which he was associated with, and was a trustee of the Lodge Cessnock property for many years past.
He was a prominent church man, and was associated. with the Church of England at Aberdare.
The late Mr. Ardron is survived by a family of four sons, and four daughters, and was predeceased by his wife some two and a half years ago.
The funeral took place in the Church of England portion of the Aberdare cemetery yesterday, and was largely attended. Rev. Tracey conducted a service at the Aberdare Church of England, and also at the graveside.
In paying a tribute to Mr. Ardron's memory, Mr. Tracey said:- One has passed from our visible company whom we could ill afford to lose, and yet, being unseen, he is nearer to us in spirit and in life than ever before. A funeral is never always sadness � there is the joy amongst us to-day that Paradise is richer for the presence of him who has entered in. The Church he loved, and served so devotedly will long remember him, and ever miss from its seen number, one whose devoted loyalty and spiritual uprightness were an inspiration to all who were privileged to worship and to serve with him. Words are not sufficient in which to express all that his presence and his fellowship meant to those who knew and loved him. For he was a man whom one could really love � his simple gentleness, his real humility, and his deep love for God marked him as a bright gem in the crown of God. Our Faith in the Communion of Saints, the Fellowship of Christian unbroken by death, will always bind him to us here in a bond of deep devotion, a real fellowship in God. His soul rests now with the God whom he loved and served so well- and of our charity and our fellowship, with the unseen let us pray for him for it can never be wrong to pray for those who still live yet are unseen, nor can prayers for those whom we love whether present or passed across ever be inacceptable in the throne-room of God's heart.
Gillett (sic) Ardron, rest in peace!

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder (NSW)
- Tuesday 19 July 1949
... Re the Estate of GILLOTT ARDRON late of Aberdare in the State of New South Wales, Engineer, deceased. LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION granted by the Supreme Court of New South Wales on the 6th day of July, 1949. PURSUANT to the Wills Probate and Administrations Act 1898-1947: Testator's, Family Maintenance and Guardianship of Infants Act 1916-1938; and Trustee Act, 1925-1942; The PUBLIC TRUSTEE, the administrator of the estate of the said GILLOT ARDRON who died on the 20th day of March, 1935 intestate, hereby gives notice that creditors and others having any claim; against, or to, the estate of the said deceased, are required to send particulars of their claims to the said PUBLIC TRUSTEE at 19 O'Connell Street, Sydney, on or before the 1st day of October, 1949 at the expiration of which time the said Public Trustee will distribute the estate of the said deceased to the persons entitled having regard only to the claims of which he then has notices.
- P. J. P. PULLEN, Public Trustee

NOTES
The HISTORY of CESSNOCK

PHOTO
ABERDARE Coal Mine, CESSNOCK (Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)
taken from the Australian Geographic
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Emery family history Fermanagh Ireland

2013-05-21T11:15:59+01:00

Have just commenced researching my fathers side of the family.
I have done a little research and thus far have traced back to William Emery who came to Australia in 1838 aboard the FAIRLIE.
Any assistance on tracing back further would be greatly appreciated
I am also keen to contact any relatives in Australia so I can "fill some gaps"

Grace Ella Perry, Victoria, Australia

2013-05-21T06:42:57+01:00

Any information on this Family would be appreciated

GRACE ELLA PERRY
Born: 1908 Balwyn, Victoria, Australia
Parents: Edmund Henry Perry & Ellen Mahony
Married: Norman McCarthy or McCarthur or McArthur
Death: Unknown

Known Children:
Helene
Bernice
Heather

Looking for John Barnett and Hephzibar Barker London

2013-05-21T05:33:46+01:00

I am trying to find where my GGGG Grandfather John barnett born c 1770 was born. He married Hephzibar Barker in LOndon at St. Nicholas Cole Abbey on 14/2/1791. They had 9 children Susannah b 1791, Ebenezer 1794, Josiah B 1796, George Caleb b 1800, John Barker b 1801, Hephzibar b 1803, Samuel b 1805, Jane b 1807 and Samuel b 1811.
I thought maybe he could be Jewish. Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Thank you

smart family

2013-05-21T05:30:26+01:00

IFOUND THIS SITE TO BE SO USEFUL, I AM A SMART BY MARRIAGE,EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE A TREE MADE UP FROM MY HUSBANDS
MOTHERS SIDE, I FIND A LOT OF NAMES HERE RING A BELL.
I AM INTERESTED IN THE SMART SIDE, MY HUSBAND IS MURRAY RAYNOR SMART, HIS FATHER ALEXANDER WOOD SMART HIS MOTHER WAS JEAN ROSS ANDERSON THERE IS ALSO TWO BROTHERS CONECTED TO MURRAY --- JOHN AND GRAEME AND A SISTER LEXI ALL BORN IN DUNEDIN, DOES ANYONE OUT THERE HAVE ANY INFO ON THE SMARTS
KIND REGARDS
MAUREEN SMART

HOW DID SARAH WILSON LEAD ME TO HENRY TUCK? SHOREHAM & FLINDERS, VIC., AUST.

2013-05-21T03:59:28+01:00

A few short weeks ago, all I knew about Sarah Wilson was that she and her sons,George and Robert, lived on Jamieson's Special Survey before the Kangerong Road Board's first assessment of 1864,and that the three of them were honoured on the DROMANA PIONEER PATHWAY and all of them signed a petition in 1861 requesting that Quinan's school be chosen instead of Nicholson's to become the Dromana Common School.

It was during my attempt to discover information about the Simpsons of Red Hill that I made contact with Margaret Connell (nee Simpson) through the assistance of Keith Holmes and was shown Connell genealogy compiled by Dot Watt (nee Connell.) Marg. and Dot told me to read Petronella Wilson's GIVING DESTINY A HAND.

Having read this book, I kept part of the Mornington News 2013 Anzac Edition because it related to a fascinating name change mentioned in the book. It was an article about Christie Johnstone who happened to be the grandson of Henry Tuck Junior, the fantastic bush poet, whose works are available from the Dromana Historical Society museum, and no doubt most local historical societies.

In A DREAMTIME OF DROMANA, Colin McLear gave details of all the children of councillor John Calvin Griffith of Dromana and Mary. Mary Who?

Having all the details of Christie Johnstone's descent from Oliver and Sarah Wilson, I entered "Henry Tuck, obituary" and got what seemed at first hand to be a useless response. But it wasn't, despite the journalist's usual error of rendering Griffith as Griffiths. Mary must have been Mary Dowling!

OBITUARY. DEATH OF MRS. C. DOWLING, By the death of Mrs Catherine Dowling, as mentioned in our last issue, another very old resident of the Mornington Peninsula has been removed from our midst. Mrs Dowling had reached the ripe old age of 86 years at the time of death. Although she was not suffering from any painful illness, she had been gradually failing under the pressure of her advanced years for some considerable time, and her death was not unexpected. She was possessed of an exceedingly kindly, warm hearted disposition, and very many old residents of the district, as well as the younger generation, will remember her as a true friend who had always a kindly word, and was ready to do a kindly action for anyone with whom she came into contact. The deceased lady was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, and reached Melbourne with her husband-who predeceased her by some nineteen years-in the ship " Marco Pauls " on Christmas Day, 1852. She was thus a colonist of nearly 59 years. After spending eight years, in other parts of Victoria, the Dowlings came to Stony Creek, now known as Shoreham, in the year 1860, and they were the first settlers to actually reside on their own holding in this locality, which was a portion of Tuck's Old Manton's Creek run. The country was, at the time of their acquiring the land, in a very rough state, and Mrs Dowling had many interesting incidents of hardships to relate. Her quaint sense of quiet humor always made these reminiscences pleasant to listen to. Their first homestead, a slab erection on the banks of the Creek, was totally destroyed by the collapse of a giant gum tree one very stormy night. In this instance Mr and Mrs Dowling had a very narrow escape from death. A large fork of the tree came down on each side of the bed upon which they were sleeping. Upon another occasion Mr Dowling, when some little distance away from the homestead, was forced by the ferocity of the dingoes to take refuge and spend the night up in the branches of a tree. Of Mrs Dowling's family three daughters and one son, all of whom are well known throughout the Peninsula, are surviving. These are Mrs J. C. Griffiths of Dromana; Mr* Joseph Stanley. of Balnarring; Mrs West, and Mr Christy Dowling, who was living at "The Glen" with his mother at the time of her death. The recent demise of one daughter, Mrs Henry Tuck, of Flinders, is sadly re- membered by her friends, as is also that of another daughter, Mrs J. West. A son, Mr Thomas Dowling, died some years ago, and another son expired in infancy. The remains of the deceased lady were interred in the Flinders general cemetery, when a very large number of people attended the funeral to show their last respects.
(P.3, Mornington Standard, 5-8-1911.)

My journal FAMILY CONNECTION ON THE MORNINGTON PENINSULA is now dwarfed by the information available in my other journals. No doubt a Tuck family history has been written so I don't intend to write one. One of my aims in family connections was to explain geographically how the two families became acquainted; usually, apart from during war time and, to a much lesser degree during the 1890's depression when many peninsula lads headed west in search of gold, the families were at least near-neighbours. Robert Rowley and Christine Edwards caused me months of wasted time until I found the neighbourly connection had been at Longford, Tasmania before Robert joined Henry Cadby Wells in a lime-burning venture near Sorrento, circa 1841.

How then would the Jennings family of Rye be related to the Tucks? Before settling at Rye in 1914, George Dodd and Hannah (Wiffen)had spent time farming at Flinders, Cranbourne and Camperdown. Their son,Cecil, married Catherine Tuck. (JENNINGS:A PIONEERING RYE FAMILY by Linda Berndt,P.20, Southern Peninsula News, 13-7-2010.)

CHRISTIE JOHNSTONE'S DESCENT FROM OLIVER AND SARAH WILSON.
Olver Wilson, a staunch Presbyterian, (1791-1851) and Sarah Spence (1811-1870) married in 1832. Their third child, Matilda (1837-1878) was born in Lifford,Ireland.With her parents and siblings, George (1833-1905)and Jane (1834-1863) came to Australia aboard the Argyle, landing at William's Town on 13-4-1841. Robert (1843-1894)was probably born in the Flinders Lane house. Oliver had become established as a shoemaker but after his death in 1851, rents rose dramatically because of the gold rush and George suggested a move to Jamieson's Special Survey (the Safety Beach area, east to Bulldog Creek Rd.)

On 18-4-1855, a double wedding was celebrated in Sarah's house on the Survey. Matilda married William Johnson(1832-1875) and her sister Jane, married George Young. When Jane died six days after the birth her fifth child, Sarah (b.12-8-1863), the baby was brought up as one of Matilda's family.

William and Matilda eight children of their own:
William (1855-1905) who never married;
Matilda(Tilly,1858-1936) who never married;
William Henry (1860-1860);
Robert Henry (1863-1936)who married Catherine Tuck in 1915, their children being William Henry, Christopher James, Margaret and Mary. N.B. THE CHRISTIE JOHNSTONE ARTICLE CALLS HIM ALBERT HENRY!
Rebecca Sarah (1866-1922) who never married;
Mary Jane (1869-?);
Sarah (1871-1927)who married W.G.J.Coulter in 1903, their children being Ruby and William George;
Charles Oliver (1875-1963) who never married.

JOHNSON BECOMES JOHNSTONE.
The first-born, Billy acted as head of the family when his own father died ten weeks after the birth of Charles Oliver.The family had been living on a 5 acre portion of 67A Balnarring. Billy kept on receiving demands for payment of bills but they were not his debts. A member of another Johnson family was responsible for them,possibly the family which lived near Warrawee (Vansuylen's grant.) This so annoyed Billy that he changed the family name to Johnstone by deed poll.

TO BE CONTINUED 67A LOCATION , 20 WANNAEUE.-SEE COMMENT 1.

R. H. Johnstone, Red Hill, offering to purchase wood on Cape Schanck fronting his property, and calling at- tention to culvert near Dumbleton's as it is dangerous.- Tenders to be called for timber, and culvert to be at- tended to.(P.2, Mornington Standard, 6-6-1914.)

looking for the marriage date and place for William Sherman Brockman and Ida Isabelle Masterson around 1890

2013-05-21T03:20:32+01:00

Looking for the marriage date and place around 1890 for William Sherman Brockman and Ida Isabele Masterson