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Mac Cormaic. It might be best to contact 'Hirdy' directly via PM for your question about the McCormicks. I don't have any in my family and I am still trying to establish if this family is in fact even connected with mine.

I have replied to you via personal message.

Thank you so much for this info! You have managed to stumble upon an answer to one of my long sought after questions. These are all the right family. My ancestor James emigrated to Australia in 1840 with his father Andrew, step-mother Catherine Burke and 3 siblings. The South Australian Biological Index and Shipping Records have only ever mentioned James, Honora, Mary and an unknown male. I had worked out that it must have been an older brother but have never been able to put a name to him. I'm fairly certain it must be the John you have mentioned. I'll possibly be able to chase him down in South Australia too. I have been to this website before and been able to find the marriage of James' father Andrew O'Leary and his first wife Ann O'Connel in 1828 in Charleville, Co Cork but as the exchange rate means that 5 euro is about 15 dollars, it has been too expensive for me to search any further. I'm so excited about this though, I may have to treat myself to a few searches to find out more!

Thanks again for this and for your trouble.
Alison

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply. I've been away on holidays.

I don't know very much about my RYAN family other than the snippets of information found from certificates. My ancestor Margaret RYAN married Thomas BROWN in Keilor in 1858 and died in Fitzroy in 1909. They had 7 children. Some born in Gisborne, others in Echuca and the youngest in Essendon. Their names were Catherine, John, Anastasia, Jane, William x 2 and Elizabeth. From the marriage certificate it states that Margaret's parents are Edmond RYAN and Anastasia and her birthplace is Dunmore, Kilkenny. That is all I know. I have Margaret's birth year at around 1838 but this is calculated from her stated age on certificates. Please let me know if you find any connection. I wouldn't have thought a name like Anastasia would be too common in Ireland at that time and the fact that our RYAN's ended up in Melbourne at around the same time. It would seem like there may be a  connection.

Cheers,
Alison

Hi kgb301,

I am distantly related to Colin Lelliott, (very distantly), and I have a file on the Lelliott family that was sent to me by another family member and researcher.  Colin and his sister Cynthia are in that file but unfortunately it doesn't have any marriage information for either of them, therefore no child info either.  I can supply you with Colin's ancestry back to 1635 and certainly his aunts and uncles have descendents that are listed in the file.   I am happy to forward this document to you if you wish.  It is a 294 page word document   I cannot vouch for it's accuracy as it was not compiled by me.  I have checked those parts relevent to me and it seems to be fairly accurate.  Please let me know if you would like me to email the document to you privately.  If you click on my name you should be able to send me a private message to let me know your email address.

Alison