Given that every single record from BDM is $25 each, I’m not buying all of these records. I’m not looking for Catherine, I’m looking for Mary and John. Please focus on these two
Thanks will do but the information you are giving keeps altering a little Dial, Taylor, now Doyle.
Most of us genealogists who do a lot of helping on these boards often do the equivalent of an athlete's warm-up to get the focus going and more importantly to replicate or disprove or add to the information that has been given. Once that is disposed of we then move onto other aspects. This is very much best procedural practice for us.
Family stories are great and often there is an element of truth in them....could you possibly identify/separate them out from the factual material though.
When did John come to NZ? Evidenced by?
Were they ever together in NZ
What evidence is there, apart from the later marriage certificate of his wife, that John Smith himself was ever in Bannockburn.
Did Mary come back and forth to NZ twice? Once to chase John and the other to bring the children?
What religion were they? Important to be able to search in Ireland?
What is the evidence that Mary arrived on the ship after being convicted?
What is the evidence that she came from Dublin, also important for Irish searching
Why/where does Taylor/Tayler come into it? Why are these names even mentioned?
