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Fermanagh / Re: Magee Family of migrants to NSW
« on: Friday 06 January 23 06:16 GMT (UK) »
Family history is my hobby and I have been at it for decades, and more so since I retired some 10 Yrs ago.
The pages of the old Irish RC Priests' books have been indexed but access may not be free. I suggest you try https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/ and/or Ancestry.com. The latter can be accessed for free at a public library (at least in QLD), some of which have a visiting volunteer genealogist who may be able to help as well.
I can't find much about Thomas E. Waters other than his wedding to Ethel Mellare in Lismore in 2022. Do you have any details of his birth, death and parents. An index of famine orphans has
one person with the Waters surname, viz. Ann Waters, from Sligo, age 14, RC, arrived on "Lady Kennaway", Melbourne, 1848 (https://irishfaminememorial.org/orphans/database/). Is this the connection you mentioned?
The pages of the old Irish RC Priests' books have been indexed but access may not be free. I suggest you try https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/ and/or Ancestry.com. The latter can be accessed for free at a public library (at least in QLD), some of which have a visiting volunteer genealogist who may be able to help as well.
I can't find much about Thomas E. Waters other than his wedding to Ethel Mellare in Lismore in 2022. Do you have any details of his birth, death and parents. An index of famine orphans has
one person with the Waters surname, viz. Ann Waters, from Sligo, age 14, RC, arrived on "Lady Kennaway", Melbourne, 1848 (https://irishfaminememorial.org/orphans/database/). Is this the connection you mentioned?