hello there Everyone
I had the following PM from Linden
Hello Jenn
I wanted to add this onto Rootschat but couldn't work out how to do it , so I used the email option .
Since you found all the information on Henry Doughty Sharp I've been contacted by one Australian descendant and by other connections in England .
According to the English connection , Henry Sharp's wife , Eliza Ann (Stray) went to Australia with one or more of her siblings on the same ship . They all came from Lincolnshire . He thinks that Mary Stray was on the Boanerges with them and that she later married Richard Ware Gibbens . They are said to have opened a hotel in Geelong , and to have died around 1904 - 1905.
Would your ships list show Mary Stray and any other Stray on board ?
Their brother , George , was said to have arrived 1864-65 on the Forester Rights(?). He married Rebecca Eaton in Australia . They had 5 children and he died in Kilmore in 1903 . My contact says he has a photograph of George and Rebecca .
They must have all lost contact with each other as Mary's effects were sent to a relative in England after her death .
I'd be grateful for any information about the Stray family.
Regards,
Linden
I have found that
Mary Straywas on the Boanerges aged 17 and that she did mary Richard Ware Gibbens in 1871 reg no 923 so far no kids in Victoria up to 1889
George Stray did arrive on the Forest Rights and married Rebecca Eaton in 1875 reg no 4535
He did die in 1903 aged 61 reg no 6221 father John Stray mother Harriet HADSLEY at Kilmore
the five children were
Caroline Mary Stray born 1872/2141 at DUCK
Elizabeth born 1873/335 at LITTLE R
Caroline Harriet born 1874/16865 at Little R
John William born 1876/7243 at BR OA
Rebecca born 1880/4383 at PYALONG
Now a spanner in the works here
Richard Ware Gibbens died aged 46 in 1887 at the Prn Alf Hos reg no 7869 father Richard Ware mother Sarah Pyror
but a marriage of
Mary Gibbens to Daniel JARRIE in 1897 reg no 5448R she is from england
now a death for
MARY JARVIE died aged 59 at Seymour in 1904 reg no 13936 father John Stray mother Harriet Lily
regards jenn