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Australia / Seeking Ada Sullivan
« on: Sunday 10 September 17 04:58 BST (UK) »
Can anyone assist me? I am seeking any details on my grandmother, Ada Sullivan in the years between 1874 when she was born and December 5, 1891 when she married Joseph Job Downes in the Lutheran parsonage in Adelaide. I believe that Ada was brought up as a baby or child with her aunt, Mary Sullivan in Grote Street, Kent Town. Mary was a widow and police searcher. If there is any census of those individual family members living in Grote Street during that 17 year period, it may confirm Ada was living there. I believe her birth mother was really Mary Haylock of Carisbrook who agreed to the informal adoption of her daughter. Although Ada listed Mary Sullivan's husband, Michael as her father, he had died back in 1866.