« Reply #443 on: Monday 08 April 19 12:07 BST (UK) »
Yes, I would like to time travel, even for just one day, too. It would be great to go back in time to meet ancestors.
Even though the Battistas are not my ancestors I think their story is quite fascinating. There are so many puzzles.
For example, the daughter of Giovanni is quite an enigma too. We still don't know how she came to be E. Moralee. It would appear that she left the workhouse with a W. Brabant and later returned with a son called John to the workhouse. The entry records that Father William was a tailor. Could this mean that this was her child's Father or might this be Giovanni using an alias?
I have come across some newspaper accounts of a Jacob Miller involved in some petty crime with John George. (Although, he did state that he was only carrying whatever for Battista
) I suppose I will never know for definite but from name, location and age I suspect he might have been one of my ancestors - the Grandson of my Great Grandfather's sister to be exact (Mary Watson nee Conroy).
Conroy, Fitzpatrick, Watson, Miller, Davis/Davies, Brown, Senior, Dodds, Grieveson, Gamesby, Simpson, Rose, Gilboy, Malloy, Dalton, Young, Saint, Anderson, Allen, McKetterick, McCabe, Drummond, Parkinson, Armstrong, McCarroll, Innes, Marshall, Atkinson, Glendinning, Fenwick, Bonner
