Hi, My 2x great grandparents came to Tasmania, Australia on the Flora McDonald in 1855 with their children Margaret, Thomas and Catherine. I know very little about John Early he was born about 1821 in Cavan and he was Roman Catholic, a farm labourer and could not read or write. Mary Ann's maiden name was Donnelly, she was b abt 1831 R C and could read. John her brother was born 1822 and married Catherine Brown b 1823 both convicts to Tasmania in 1846 aboard the Tory and Arabian. John sponsored his sister Mary Ann and her family to Tasmania. Their parents were John and Catherine Brown and her mother we think came to Tasmania with John and Catherine Jr's son James. John Donnelly also had another brother James b 1823/33 that we have no idea about, we thought he too might have come to Tasmania but cannot find anything at all to prove it. We don't know if there are any more siblings apart from these 3. We don't know what part of Cavan they were from either.
Is there any way to find them in Ireland? We have information from their time in Tasmania but we are having problems finding where to look in Ireland.
