Thank you, Jack,
This is my first time on a blog and I am not sure what buttons to push. Will get used to it I am sure.
My name is Gillian. I am in Perth. John and Catherine Wallace are my great great grandparents. Eliza Shannon is my great great aunt. I am not doing a family tree which goes back eons. Just trying to write the story from John and Catherine's voyage to South Australia and the family from thereon. My cousins and I are putting it together while some of the memories are still there.
At the moment I am using free sites. Reluctant to go into paid sites as much of the information is regurgitated error.
While my branch comes down through John and Catherine's son, William, who moved over to Cue in WA, we will have Eliza's generation in common and it would be great to hear more from you.
I know nothing of John and Catherine from the time they landed until their date and place of death at the Shannon Mausoleum. Nor of their voyage - good one or bad one? Because William stayed around the Kapunda region, I am assuming that John and Catherine did as well. Families tended to stay close by.
I also don't know what John and Catherine did in County Cavan, whether town or rural, but have deduced that they may have come from Knockbride.
Four of their children are recorded on Mary Dugdale, but what of the others? John, Jane, Sarah and Margaret.
I can find no trace of John.
I read that Samuel may have died 1840 - 41 but where does that fact come from?
Grave records don't pop up, as I think nearly everyone (except those in the Shannon Mausoleum) is in an unmarked grave and it would be necessary to obtain formal death certificates for those. Which, eventually, I will be happy to do.
Of William and Eliza's siblings I have the dates of birth except for Sarah and Margaret.
I have William married to Jane Smith, my great grandparents.
I have Jane married to Robert Davison (before or after emigration? Where did they reside?)
I have Margaret married to Henry Worthington (before or after emigration? Where did they reside?)
James seems to be well recorded.
Eliza seems to be well recorded.
Nothing on John or Samuel.
Nothing on Sarah, Margaret or Jane.
William's time in Kapunda is not clear either, but that can wait for another time.
So, that's about where I am. Would love to hear if you can help out with a bit of the above. Look forward to hearing from you.
Gillian.
