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For many years, I believed I might have found the arrival of my ancestor Elizabeth Jane Bateman, also known as Elizabeth Kennedy. When Elizabeth married James Murphy at St Matthew’s, Windsor in 1844, she gave her name as Elizabeth Kennedy. Later records, however, identified her maiden name as Bateman and named her parents as Henry…
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52 Ancestors #14 My maternal second great-grandmother Elizabeth has presented me with the sort of problem genealogists claim to enjoy. She married as Elizabeth Kennedy. Her children’s records say she was born in Limerick. Later records identify her as Elizabeth Bateman and name her parents as Henry Bateman and Maria, or Mary, Alphonso. She died…
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The deaths of Mary Boland and Elizabeth Murphy On Monday, 29 March 1875, two women died within hours of one another at the same house in Back Forest, near Shoalhaven. Mary Boland was found dead in her home early that morning. Later, her neighbour Elizabeth Murphy suffered violent convulsions and died after drinking rum from…
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#52 Ancestors #13 My maternal 2nd great grandfather James Murphy lived through a period of enormous change. Born in rural County Wexford Ireland in the early nineteenth century, he witnessed the final years of the Penal Era, emigrated halfway around the world before the Great Famine and spent almost fifty years helping build a new…
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As part of my quest to discover more about my ancestors, I am looking for suitable candidates to undertake Y-DNA and mtDNA testing for me. So far, I’ve had the following tests taken but am looking to extend all of my ancestral lines! This post is intended to document my progress and will be updated…
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The match that confirmed where my Roberts family spent their early years in Queensland. My maternal grandfather Edward Arthur Roberts, known as Ted, emigrated from England with his parents and younger brother in 1910. They sailed on the SS Orsova departing London on 14 Sep 1910 and arrived in Brisbane on 31 Oct 1910, after…
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This post is about identifying the father of my mothers paternal grandfather, my second great grandfather – what was his name? (52Ancestors#12). I previously wrote about her grandfather Edward Roberts in 2018. The circumstances surrounding his birth have always been a mystery and whilst we knew his mother was married twice, we believed her second…
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For many years I have been researching my Irish roots attempting to bridge the gap in paper records through the power of DNA analysis. I recently wrote about my Sweeney family who came from the townlands of Rathclooney and Moyriesk in County Clare. You can read about them here. From DNA matching, I have long…
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My emigrant ancestor to Australia on the Sweeney line was my maternal 2nd great grandmother Mary Sweeney, our Cassidy matriarch, who I’ve previously written about here. Mary and her brother Terence emigrated to Australia as Bounty Immigrants from County Clare aboard the Roxborough Castle in 1839, aged 20 and 23 respectively. Their parents were stated…
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Imagine my amazement to find I am somehow related to Silas Cole – the Tasmanian convict! Coles Bay, a picturesque locality in Tasmania was later named after him. Silas was known to collect and burn shells from the Aboriginal middens in the bay area to make lime. He often described the beauty of the bay…