I'm struggling with the origins of a Thomas Robb (I'm in Australia, with public library access to Ancestry). What I know is that:
1.) he married Anna Cunningham in 1853 (in Saintfield)
2.) he married Mary McNeight in 1858 (in Magheragall)
3.) he had a daughter, Jane Anna, prob. 1859
4.) a son, John, June 1861 (although I can't document the June)
5.) he got himself into the newspapers in 1861, stealing (allegedly) his wife's brother's cashbox
6.) he took the family to Australia in late 1861, arriving 1862
7.) I have his life in Australia moderately well covered if anyone is interested
I also have a Mary Ann Robb who married Robert Longwill in 1859; a Thomas Robb was one of the witnesses.
According to the various marriage certificates, Thomas's and Mary's father was called Andrew. On the 1853 & 1858 certificates, Andrew is described as a soldier; on Mary's in 1859, a printer.
What I would like to find is a specific birth date for Thomas, and more about his parents, and potentially other relatives. The Ireland genealogy site hasn't helped much for Andrew. Of course he (they all) may have been born elsewhere. There's some information from 1873 suggesting Thomas considered himself Scottish.
Can anyone help me with sources? I know about the 1922 fire, but I wondered if there might be alternative records/archives in the North?
thanks in anticpation
