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?

[flashie*]

GSE...I asked on a genealogogy forum I go to if they could help us solve the missing death we were after.

They could not find it either......but they did say that if he died while at sea (travelling) the death did not have to be recorded............but I hope that is not the case here.

[the_great_she_elephant]

Thanks, Flashie, most appreciated.

Now, another question for everyone.
Does anyone have any idea where I might access online a list of convicts who went through the Female Factory at Parramatta. I know records are held at the State Library in NSW but am in WA. I haven't been able to find anywhere online.

Specifically I am looking for Ann Bradwell, who was transported as a convict on "Experiment" and arrived in Sydney on 24th June 1804. She married Thomas Lisson on August 28th of that same year. She may or may not have been at the factory, but I would like to find out.

Ann and Thomas were married by Samuel Marsden and it is a fair bet that Thomas (himself an emancipated transportee) picked her out of one of the infamous marriage lineups.

[margomeoz]

She ele that is the same guy who married my ancestors

[the_great_she_elephant]

She ele that is the same guy who married my ancestors

He was known as 'the flogging parson' - a thorougly nasty piece of work by all accounts.

[darksideofthemoon]

Hi all 🙂

the spelling configurations col, are all due to who was taking the records. Sometimes they would spell it phonetically and sometimes the way they thought it should be. Then there were changes between one country and another.

You do begin, after a while to recognise the changes but it can make it difficult. Of course there are also the mistakes clerks make in taking down the names of birth, death & marriage certificates which get copied and changed yet again 😞

Heck flashie, that's an odd one - not recording a death at sea... I do hope that isn't so, it would mean so many people would be missing presumed dead and I can't believe that would happen. 😞

Go on line to the State Library in NSW ele, they have most of those types of information that you can access..

http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/

You should find Ann in their lists, especially as you have the ship and the date.

Good old Samuel Marsden got around didn't he. He was also out at Windsor at one time. Yes a thoroughly nasty piece of work X-(

Anyone got any 'Gibsons'? I have already asked Flashie and after a lot of hard work came up with a blank, so the Gibsons are on the 'open market' :^O

[the_great_she_elephant]

Thanks Darki. Having done a bit more checking I now realise ann would have arrived far to early for the Female Facory - which did not open till 1821. there was a 'Factory Above The Gaol' operating in 1804 but as she arrived in June and had been married of to Thomas Lisson only two months later i suspect she barely troubled the records there.
That NSW Library link is excellent, but none of the records held there appears to be available online.

[chuk_77]

flashie just wondering if you got part 2 of my message to you the other day

[2chappies]

Came across this last night, has a few links to useful pages:

http://www.anmm.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1420

Col, thanks SO much for this link. 😄 I'm pretty sure I have been able to find my GGgrandfather coming from NZ to Aus in 1905. Still lots of brick walls in my searching but I think I've knocked one down tonight. Now to find the family going from Galway to NZ in the late 1870's and GGgrandfather's last resting place. 😞

[lyndal1838]

The last time I checked with the NSW State Library you could not access the records on line....you had to make an application to view the records at a certain time and they would bring them to you in a reading room.
That was a few years ago though, and it may have changed now that on line records are becoming so popular.

[flashie*]

Yes Chuck I did get your message.....I am working on it....there are three with the same name born within a year of each other....I have to trace them all back to be able to seperate them and figure out which one is yours.