Anyone else into seeking their ancestors?

[darksideofthemoon]

I have become adicted to Ancestry.com and am lucky enough that one side of my family can be researched way back into the dim times.

The other side has hit a brick wall and I have to wait until someone else in the world may have more information.

How is everyone else going?

[matildas-place]

Hi all! I hope everyone is well and having much success with their family research :-x

I just came across this and thought some of you may find it interesting.

http://ridiculouslyinteresting.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/hidden-mothers-in-victorian-portraits/

[punch*drunk]

Maybe not Punch.................but there definitely appears to be a connection between the familes.

I'm pretty sure they owned the ship together, but I'm thinking it was from only 1861 until it was wrecked.

Matilda, did you see the link further down for the post mortem photos 😮

[darksideofthemoon]

Sorry punch, I have been MIA all round lately with a little dog due for an operation tomorrow for a badly injured cruciate ligament in her knee... so much carrying her around..

Now, Thomas - lived in Sydney and yes I did find a ship from Melbourne to Sydney 'The City of Adelaide', but you got a lot further along than I did, I had no hope of finding the ship he sailed in.. that was a clipper ship and yes, coupled with your find of the 'Somersetshire' on the 1st March 1877, it sounds very much as if it is him.

Thanks punchie very much at least that's one wall broken down... 🙂 xxx

[darksideofthemoon]

There's a Thomas Hitchman arriving in Melbourne on 1 March 1877 on the ship Somersetshire. There is then a Thomas Hitchman leaving Melbourne a few days later for Sydney on the Ship City of Adelaide.

P.S. any chance you could give me the site where you found him on the Somersetshire please?

[punch*drunk]

http://prov.vic.gov.au/search_results?searchid=23&format=freetext&FamilyName=hitchmann&GivenName&Shi...

I actually thought I found it somewhere different, but not sure where that was. In fact, I think I found it on Ancestry, but it said Thomas I Hitchman on there.

[green.fields]

Matilda that is almost spooky. lol. Interesting though. i love old photo's.

[2chappies]

Very creepy. 😮

[zaidee.summerlily]

Happy Birthday mum xxxxxxxxxxx

[punch*drunk]

:-D:-D:-D:-D

I've been searching for information about my great grandfathers second wife (he was a bigamist :O) and today someone added my GGF's information from my tree to theirs and their tree is predominantly her surname. There is a slim possibilty that she is still alive, she'd be a little over 100 though if she is.

Cant wait to hear back from him about her. There are a few people researching that side of the family who would like to know.

[flashie*]

I spent heaps of time last night seaerching those post mortem phography pictures.............and memorial cabinet cards.

It would seem they are particularly collectable.:O

I hope they get back to you with some exciting information Punch.