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Hello R
I see you have a Treadwell family of background interest.  Coincidentally, I have one too!
My maternal grandmother, Rose Rebecca Donovan, nee Smith had grandparents Elizabeth or Eliza Ann ("Betsy") Treadwell or Tredwell (1837-cir 1877) and Crimean War Veteran, James Treadwell James (1834-1918), who married in Lambeth in 1858.  Betsy's parents were James Edward Treadwell (son of Francis T. and Jane (?) Jones) and "Eliza" James, who married in Lambeth in 1834.
Are any of these people familiar to you?
K

Thanks woodentop
I have put the following post on that site in response to the last post there of two years ago:
I found your post as a result of a response to one of mine on RootsChat in an endeavour to find the origins of Colonel Thomas Austin of Barbados and Thomas Stanton, a founder of Stonington, CT, in the belief that the two families intermarried in Barbados. There are various theories as to the origin of each but I don't think anyone has yet found any substantial evidence in support.
I expect you are a descendant of The Hon. William Austin (a son of the Colonel and Mary William) and Mehetabel Piercy.
My wife, Elizabeth is a descendant of the Colonel and Mary Barker, through the Rev. Richard Barker Austin and Sarah Stanton, then Rev Wiltshire Stanton Austin. Like you, she has ancestors in the clergy. Her great great grandfather, Richard Charles Austin migrated to the Colony of Victoria in 1860.
(name) (Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia).

Hi knort33
I am planning a trip to the USA next year and, among other things, I would like to know where in VA he came from, Bellfield Plantation in York Co or Belfield in Greensville Co.
Anchor425

A year has gone by and I don't think the above issue has been resolved. Indeed, it might be irrevelant if the Indian Interpreter, Thomas Stanton of Stonington, CT is not the 9th great grandfather of my wife, Liz, so I would like to try another tack, by starting from the Barbadian end.
 
Does anyone have any knowledge of descendants of Thomas Stanton (cir 1613-1677) who carried out trade for the family in Barbados and who may have settled there?  I am fairly certain Liz is a descendant of Rev. Richard Austin (1770-1851) and his wife Sarah Stanton (1767 -?1794) who were born in Barbados.  Sarah's forbears in turn may be Wiltshire Stanton (1739-cir 1779), Dr. Daniel Stanton (?1683-1760), Richard Stanton, Daniel David Stanton (cir 1648-cir 1684) and the above Thomas.    However, the connection to the Indian Interpreter Thomas Stanton of Stonington is questionable.

Richard's link in the chain of descendants of Thomas Stanton Sen, a co-founder of Hartford & then Stonington, CT is uncertain.  In his will of Oct 24, 1677, Thomas Stanton Sen of Stonington, CT specifically names his wife and 10 children, including a son Daniel who, no doubt, was the "overseas partner" with his brothers in trade with Barbados and who settled there about the time of Thomas's death.  As far as I am aware, Daniel does not name a son Richard in his will, presumed to be that of a Darrel Stanton made on June 1, 1681.  In his will of June 25, 1750, Richard Stanton of the parish of St George, Barbados specifically names his children including a Daniel, as well as three grandchildren. While I am confident that, in this tree, Daniel I is the son of Thomas Sen, and that Daniel II is a son of Richard, the evidence that Daniel I had a son Richard is weak.  If this Richard is not a son of Daniel I, who is his father?  Were there more than one Daniel Stanton in Barbados in the second half of the 17th century?

My wife's father is distantly related to Sir Harold Bruce Gardiner Austin, OBE (1877-1943) who was born in Barbados and was the first captain of the West Indies cricket team.  In 1988, his contribution to cricket representing Barbados and the WI was celebrated by the issue of a 75c Barbadian stamp, one of a series of five released to commemorate the Barbados Diamond Jubilee of Cricket.   

It would be nice to find someone with knowledge of these Stanton and Austin families in Barbados.

Thanks wivenhoe for finding the NSW index record of marriage of Sarah Macgee to Patrick Munday in 1873.  I had been aware of it as I had been searching that register for a marriage of her daughter Sarah (baptized Sarah McGee 22 Mar 1857), and found two others as well -
05/1875     TUCKER JAMES ALBERT       MCGEE SARAH SYDNEY
2582/1883 BAKER EDWARD                  MCGEE SARAH GLEBE
Sarah 2 would have been 16 in 1873 and while she should have been a help in caring for her younger sibs I daresay there would have been pressure on the widow with seven children to downsize her household, &/or re-marry.   Perhaps Sarah 2 married J. Tucker or E. Baker?   Was there a third Sarah in Sydney at the time?

In response to your Q in Reply #5, as yet, I havn't purchased any certificates as I have not been certain of identifying the right people, but you and the others are helping a lot in this process.  The variation in the spelling of the surname McGee (Magee, M'Gee) makes research more difficult using sites such as the NSW Register of BDM and Trove..  I was about to ask you how you knew widow Sarah  married Patrick Munday, then I saw your post #6.  This contains a lot of  info and now I believe I can answer your other Q with some confidence in stating that this family is mine, especially with references to Sarah M'Gee Munday, her brother Alexander McGrory (Sarah's maiden name, as I thought), and her naming as a witness in the coronial inquiry of the drowning of Bernard M'Gee.  Niece, Margaret Duffy may have been adopted and remained with them as the seventh child.

Thanks also to dathai for searching for the baptisims of Bernard and Sarah but the ones you have found a probably a decade too late, as we belive their first child was born in 1849.

Best wishes