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Breconshire Lookup Requests / Re: farr family
« on: Saturday 26 May 12 15:11 BST (UK)  »
Hi there, I have been following your posts with interest.  I have a very elusive convict ancestor named Robert Lockley.  I am in Australia.  Robert was born in Tamworth England in 1825 but his family lived in Birmingham.  He had family mother Eliza and brothers John (previously transported) b 1823, Thomas and David b 1828 still in Birmingham and brother William a common soldier in the 65th Regiment.  I don't know the birthdate of William or Thomas.  I have found Eliza with David on the UK 1841 census and there is no father in the household.

I have never found a trace of this William Lockley of the 65th Regiment, I though maybe he'd died.  He did not come to Australia and he is not in England anywhere. 

Is it at all possible that your William Lockley is my missing William Lockley?

Irene  in Australia

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Australia / Re: James CUMMINGS born 1808 at sea. Father, Captain John CUMMINGS
« on: Wednesday 23 May 12 00:22 BST (UK)  »
Now that I'm more awake, I'll post my current puzzle with this family in case someone has the answer.

John Cummings and Ann Boyton had a daughter Ellen (Mary Ann Elinor) born 1809.  Ellen married George Richards and they had many girls and one boy who survived to adulthood.  They lived at Lane's Tier, an inhospitable mountain ridge in inland Tasmania close to the locality/almost village of Osterley.  When they first moved there Osterley did not exist.

Also in this isolated spot were the families of Lane, Marsh, Keats and Pilcher.  They all had many children, the children married each other, a few generations down it is quite complicated to calculate and you can't really claim descent from one without being descended from them all.   (Seems that way, anyway).

George and Richard's daughter Ellen b 1844  married Thomas Lane b circa 1842.  Thomas was the son of the original Lane's Tier pioneers, James b1798 and Ann Lane nee Cummings b 1803.

MY QUESTION:  Is Ann Cummings part of John Cummings' extended family or is it just a staggering coincidence? 

Hoping someone knows because I am in rural South Australia with no state library anywhere nearby, and cannot access primary record sources for a long time.  I will obviously have to purchase this death cert but does anyone just have the answer?

Just a note:  at this time in Tasmania was another James Lane married to Mary Leary who had a son Thomas b 1842.  According to burial record my Thomas is clearly the son of James and Ann of Lane's Tier.

Further, James and Ann had son James who also married Ann.  Both Ann's known as Annie.  Just to clear up any further confusion.   ;D ???

Irene




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Australia / Re: James CUMMINGS born 1808 at sea. Father, Captain John CUMMINGS
« on: Tuesday 22 May 12 15:23 BST (UK)  »
I have an ancestor who was listed in Parish baptism records as born 'at sea' but official registration has him born in Moreton Bay.  So I expect that is the deal with James too.  I wonder if it is one of those ships that has surgeon's records available?  I've never been so lucky.

I am actually a descendant of John Cummings and Ann Boyton.  But I like to get the whole family story.

Irene

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Australia / Re: James CUMMINGS born 1808 at sea. Father, Captain John CUMMINGS
« on: Tuesday 22 May 12 05:46 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I've just joined Rootschat, mostly because this thread came up in a google search I did on John Cummings Snr.  I was wondering if you were all still here and still plugging away with this family?  Seems silly for me to reinvent the wheel if there's a collaborative effort to be part of.   :)

Irene

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