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Cork / Re: Scannell/Murphy/Crowley in Cork
« on: Wednesday 02 February 22 10:51 GMT (UK)  »
Greetings All.
I am trying to find the family of Mary Scannell who married Thomas Curtin Thomas Curtin married Mary Scannell of MP Road on the 10th February, 1822 at the South Parish (St Finbarr’s). Witness for Thomas Curtin was Michael Danovan and witness for Mary Scannell was Owen Moran.
Their son John Curtin emigrated to Australia and on his tombstone it said he was a native of Evergreen . I found a John Scannell born Jan 1809 to John Scannell and Margaret Crowly. Address Evergreen. South Parish St Finbarrs Sponsors John Ahern and Cathe Ives.
Any ideas? I'd appreciate some help.
Best wishes,
Rowena

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Cork / Re: Thomas Curtin & Mary Scannell Cork City
« on: Friday 21 January 22 04:06 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for your replies,
I have been going through the Irish birth, death and marriage records with a fine toothcomb lately and a few leads are looking promising. However, the reason I posted the message here, was that I was hoping to draw out other descendants and connect, which would be nice, but would also make the job a lot easier. I have no idea how the family fared during the Irish Famine or whether they even stayed in Ireland. So many variables.
I have also been in touch with the Curtin Clan although not recently.
Best wishes,
Rowena

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Cork / Thomas Curtin & Mary Scannell Cork City
« on: Thursday 20 January 22 10:12 GMT (UK)  »
Greetings!
I am researching the Curtin and Scannell familes of Cork City, County Cork.  Thomas Curtin and Mary Scannell of MP Road were married on the 10th February, 1822 at the South Parish (St Finbarr’s). Witness for Thomas Curtin was Michael Danovan and witness for Mary Scannell was Owen Moran.
Thomas Curtin was baptised on the 5th May 1804 at Halfmoon Schabeg. Sponsors were Jerry Hogan and Norry Connor.
I haven't got far on researching Mary and the Scannell family.
I am descended from their son, John, who came out to Australia in 1854 and married Bridget O'Sullivan from Mallow. John's death certificate gave Thomas's occupation as Stevedore which is quite a specific occupation. John worked his passage to Australia as an Able Sailor, but worked as a blacksmith, stove fitter and fireman.
The birth details of children of Thomas Curtin and Mary Scannell are as follows:
Margaret   23rd March, 1824   
Eliza           3rd September, 1826   
Timothy   14th December, 1828   
John S.   1st July, 1831   1882
Thomas   30th June, 1833   
Honora   1st February, 1835   
William    20th June. 1837   
Mary Ann   21st January, 1842   
 
The only other detail I have is that it mentioned on John's tombstone that he came from Evergreen. I would dearly like to know how the family fared during An Gorta Mor. Did they survive?
I hope this rings some bells.
Best wishes,
Rowena

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Cork / Re: Curtin / Jago(e) of Cork City
« on: Wednesday 19 January 22 10:59 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Peter,
I'm touching base from Australia. I'm descended from Thomas Curtin Stevedore and Mary Scannell of Cork City. Their Son John Curtin came out to Australia in 1854. I thought I'd touch base with you before providing more information.
Best wishes,
Rowena Curtin

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Australia / Re: I dont know where to post this photo
« on: Friday 13 December 19 11:15 GMT (UK)  »
I'm hoping that this message will make it through to Albert Edgar Anderson's family in the UK. As I mentioned in response to a previous post, he sent letters through to the Sydney Stock & Station Journal under the name "Lucerne" as did his sister.
He sent this letter in about his trip over on the boat:
Sydney Stock and Station Journal (NSW : 1896 - 1924), Friday 14 April 1916, page 8
________________________________________
FAREWELL.
Dear 'Planets,' — My address you want I know, so I am writing now to let you have it. We embarked under an overcast- sky, but we did very well though. We are on a lovely boat, and everything seems very comfortable. We are in for a great trip, I think, and I have to come through with some knowledge of troopship travelling to tell fellow-Leaguers. I am just writing this before dinner, so I will have to dose. I will try and write to the League later, as I am afraid they will think me a deserter. having not written for montns But during the last few weeks I have been just awfully busy and couldn’t write to anyone hardly. Must close or miss the last post, so with best wishes. I bid you and all the Leaguers good-bye for the present. — Your, etc., _ 'LUCERNE.'
I started researching these soldiers as I could trace them back before the war and in some instances afterwards as well. One of the journalists enlisted. He was Colin Barclay Smith but wrote as "Barclay". After joining him on bike tours through NSW before he enlisted and through Egypt and France, it turned out that he lived a street away from where I grew up in Sydney, although he had died by then. I would be happy to share my research with his family.
Best wishes,
Rowena

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Australia / Re: Albert Edgar Anderson
« on: Friday 13 December 19 10:54 GMT (UK)  »
Greetings,
Thank you very much for posting the photo of Albert Edgar Anderson. I came across him researching soldiers who sent letters into the Sydney Stock & Station Journal. They had a penpal network which was a branch of the League of the Empire. This explains their objectives.
The 'Stock Journal ' Branch of the League of the Empire arranges for correspondence between members here and members in any part of Great and Greater Britain. Members of the same and like tastes and attainments are connected. Members write to one another regularly and may exchange postcards, stamps, nature study specimens, etc. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION: Under 16 years, 6d ; over 16 1/.
Albert wrote under the name of "Lucerne".
Members of the League were encouraged to write letters to "leaguers" who were serving and this could explain how the photo got into your family.
His service records state that he was born in Dimboola, Victoria.
His marriage certificate is included in his service records.
It appears that he didn't enlist during the Coo-ee march. He enlisted at Dubbo 28th October, 1915 and the march went through Dubbo 13th October, 1915.
Best wishes,
Rowena

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Suffolk / Re: Henry FROST Family in Mildenhall Sufolk
« on: Tuesday 25 June 19 15:20 BST (UK)  »
Greetings All,
My profuse apologies for a few errors in my posting last night, which I have since corrected. I was clearly working on all of that too late at night.
I mentioned that Eliza Frost and Thomas Keep were married at Wootton in Bedfordshire. I should point out that this is where both Thomas's parents and grandparents were married. That said, I'm not sure that he was living in the area. Just thought I'd explain that connection.
Best wishes,
Rowena

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Suffolk / Re: Henry FROST Family in Mildenhall Sufolk
« on: Monday 24 June 19 16:03 BST (UK)  »
I have an Eliza Frost who married Thomas Keep on the 19th June 1848 at Wootton, Bedfordshire,England. Eliza Frost was a milliner.The NSW BDM online index shows her parents were Henry Frost and Mary. However, there is Eliza Frost, daughter of Henry & Elizabeth Frost, who was christened 11th February, 1827 at Mildenhall.

Thomas and Eliza Keep arrived in Sydney on the 28th December, 1848 onboard the Walmer Castle. The shipping lists show that Thomas was 24 years old and Eliza was 21 (giving an est. DOB of 1827). Thomas came from Newport Pagnell, in Buckinghamshire and Eliza came from "Midan Hall" in Suffolk.

From Sydney, they moved to Casino in Northern NSW where Thomas became a trooper.
I've pasted these notes in from my files:

Son Joseph Kidnapped By Aborigines
When their son, Joseph, died in 1927, a terrifying tale emerged where he had been kidnapped by aborigines from Roseberry near Casino while his father was away transporting prisoners to Sydney. It is difficult to imagine his mother’s terror enduring this anguish with her husband away and seemingly extremely isolated with no one to help her.
Kyogle Examiner (NSW : 1912; 1914 - 1915; 1917 - 1954), Tuesday 31 May 1927, page 2
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Five Weeks in Blacks Gamp
ex-casino boy's experience
Stolen when a boy from his home at Kyogle by Roseberry blacks, Mr. Joseph Keep died at Kogarah (Sydney) on May 11. He had conducted a butchering business at Kogarah for the past 31 years. The late Mr. Joseph Keep (cousin of Mr. George Keep, Casino) was a son of the late Mr. Thomas Keep, first police constable to be stationed at Casino, and; afterwards appointed lock-up keeper, the lockup comprising an old slab hut. erected on the. site of Mr. G. K. Imeson's present home. Constable Thomas Keep, was also in charge at Kyogle at about this period, and it was while in residence there that the kidnapping of his young son by the blacks took place. Mrs. Keep was in the habit of engaging a black gin to do her washing, and this gin was blamed for carrying back to her camp the information which led to the kidnapping. Constable Keep was absent at the time, his mission being to escort five prisoners in chains to Sydney. The trip occupied five weeks in a flat-bottomed boat. The blacks took advantage of his absence to raid the home and carry off Master Keep to their camp above Roseberry, where, according to all accounts, he was treated as a little king during his brief but enforced confinement there. Returning from Sydney, Mr. Keep soon learned of his loss and set to work to recover his son from the clutches of the wily blacks. In this adventure he enlisted the co-operation of Constable Thaddeus Walsh, then in charge at Casino, and the pair set out upon an undertaking which, as ex-ents proved, was not to be accomplished without bloodshed. The approach to the blacks' domain was met by a fusillade of spears, and to effect their purpose the approach ing constables found it expedient to bring their firearms into operation. The death of two abos. resulted. Eventually young Keep was rescued and returned to his anxious mother, after having spent five weeks with his new masters. A brother of the late Mr. Joseph Keep (Thomas Keep) was born underneath a bullock waggon at Runny-mede Station when his parents were en route to Wyangarie. He is since deceased. An elder brother, Albert, died and his remains were amongst the very (first to be interred in the Casino cemetery. Undertakers being non.existent, his father made a coffin out of boxes, and in this the remains (were reverently placed for burial. At that time a minister of religion visited Casino from Grafton once a year.

Children:   
Name   Born   Year Married   Spouse   Died
Mary   1849         
Thomas H   1851         1920 St Peters
Joseph   1852         1927
Alfred J   1854         Unrecorded
Lucy   1856         
William   1858 Chippendale         1935 Kogarah
Richard   1860 Chippendale         1915 St Peters
Eveline   1861 Chippendale      1862
Julia E   1863 Chippendale         1863
Alice A   1864 Redfern         
Florence J   1866      1867
Agnes Eliza   1869      1951

Quite a lengthy reply here but a story worth sharing!
Best wishes,
Rowena
MY profuse apologies for the mistakes in my original entry. Was working too late at night!

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Cork / Re: donovans born schull cork c 1827
« on: Monday 22 January 18 15:28 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Kitman,
I have a Denis Donovan who married Mary Lynch in November, 1832 in Midleton. They had at least one daughter, Bridget, who was born around 1831-1832 in Midleton. She ended up in Midleton Workhouse and was one of 24 Irish Famine Orphan Girls who came out to Australia on the John Knox arriving in Sydney in April 1850 from memory. There is a database of the orphans who came to Australia and this is Bridget's entry:
•   Surname : Donovan
•   First Name : Bridget
•   Age on arrival : 19
•   Native Place : Cloyne, Cork
•   Parents : Dennis & Mary (mother living in Cloyne)
•   Religion : Roman Catholic
•   Ship name : John Knox (Sydney Apr 1850)
•   Workhouse : if Cloyne town, Midleton PLU
•   Other : Shipping: house servant, cannot read or write, no relatives in the colony. Register 2 No.878, 5 Jul 1850, Mary Ann O'Connell requires cancellation of indentures

I wonder if there's a connection.
Best wishes,
Rowena

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