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I'll look up my gedmatch number.
Im a bit slow lately. ...both wrists/hands not working.  So if there's a delay with me answering it's not because I'm ignoring you.

I have a feeling there was a John Henderson  on a ship with Jane  in  1866 from  plymouth to Adelaide.  That's the only reference I've found to a John. There's also reference to a William .

There seems to be another Henderson family with mames Thpmss, john, jane and William. They were orphaned and their grandmother  sailed with them to America where they were split up between their Henderson and Bain relatives. Their mother was Jane Bain  and their father Thomss Henderson.

I thought they were my ancestors but the birth dates did not fit.  I wonder if they were relatives  though,  since the names are similar.

Unfortunately another person wrote my Jane's details into  his tree on wiki tree and Geni. I haven't  been able to get him to take them down. So it can be confusing.
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Thanks for the info about places . I'm struggling with townlands, county, diocese, etc. They seem to change names over time. I'm sure i need to understand  where places are before i can get my answers. So thanks for those notes.

I need to print out a map i think and write the names on it.

Was Riversdale house  near any of the places that come up in a search for Jane Annie?

Quote from: Colleen

Jane Brien age 20 in 1911-
[url=http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Fermanagh/Rockfield_or_Killaclean/Drumsluice/521738

www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Fermanagh/Rockfield_or_Killaclean/Drumsluice/521738[/url]
Drumsluice townland-
https://www.townlands.ie/fermanagh/lurg/derryvullan-and-islands/drumsluice/

Family in 1901- surname Breen (quite common in Fermanagh)
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Fermanagh/Newparton/Drumcullion/1353224
Several townlands in Fermanagh called Drumcullion but based on 1911 location this one is most likely- both Drumcullion & Drumsluice are in Irvinestown Poor Law Union/Registration district- now called Irvinestown)-
https://www.townlands.ie/fermanagh/tirkennedy/magheracross/drumcullion/

Birth of Jane Breen gives mother as Catherine McCaffery-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1887/02560/1946811.pdf

Thank you. That's a lot to take in!

Thomas, Jane's brother settled in Adelaide and married. Had 2 children. Wife died. Married again had more children.

Thomas wrote his family tree ( down from him, not back to ancestors) and  had his paperwork for the purchase and leases of land in Adelaide. His daughter added to those papers when he died and put them in the Adelaide library. I think there was a push at the time to do that to record SA's pioneers.

One of Thomas's sons was a politician  and involved with Mawson's expeditions. He was a colourful character , not much liked. He was the first misister for foreign affairs and spent much of his life overseas. So there is much info about him in historical files. He had no children. 

The other children of Jane's brother Thomas are recorded . Two had children and I've  traced them but not to living people. That's something I will do.

I have personal letters from  lady who confirmed Thomas's children but she has now died.

The marriage certificate of Jane to my g gf Thomas WHITING  shows them being married at the residence of Thomas's father as was the custom then for many people. I have the WHITING  genealogy  back many generations.

The witnesses to Jane and Thomas wedding were her brother Thomas and his brother  Richard. I've met a descendant of Richard and we've confirmed the genealogy .

Thank you. I'm  just trying to find my way around....