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darksideofthemoon · ‎09-05-2011

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?

the_great_she_elephant · ‎06-10-2012

Flashie, your blood's worth bottling! thank you so much, He is the father of mr elephant's convict ancestor and my BIL has been trying to insist he came from irelan and had a stall in the meat market in Bandon, Co. Cork. there certainly was a John Lisson who did have a meat srtall there, but I was sure he wasn't our John. Many thanks for your detective work.:-x

the_great_she_elephant · ‎06-10-2012

One more question - what is the difference between marriage by banns and marriage by licence?

flashie* · ‎06-10-2012

Banns were read out in the parish for 4 consecutive weeks.....and I think cost nothing.

Getting married by license did.........hmmmm....I wonder if they got married in a hurry.

I don;t know for sure where your John Lisson came from.....but having a little look around I would guess that he is the son of John and Elizabeth Lisson....and was born 10-4-1745 in St Giles Cripplegate London.

Now I can not be sure of this.....I am just guessing as he married in Cripplegate and they did not move about much those days.

I am still playing around with deaths for him.....and have two possibilities.....

29--September 1782 in Bishopsgate London....(no age given but was John Jr.....so his father was John too)

19-December 1783 also in Bishopsgate London......again no age given but was John Jr.....so his father was also John

flashie* · ‎06-10-2012

Nah..............they didn't marry in a hurry......10 months before Thomas was born.:^O

flashie* · ‎07-10-2012

Sunday 7th October 1798.....Sea explorers Bass and Flinders set out to prove that Van Diemen's Land was an Island.

flashie* · ‎08-10-2012

Born on this day

Sunday, October 8, 1939. : Australian actor and comedian, Paul Hogan, is born.

Paul Hogan was born on 8 October 1939, in the north-western New South Wales town of Lightning Ridge. Initially he worked as a rigger on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, but during the 1970s he developed his own television comedy sketch programme. "The Paul Hogan Show" ran for 60 episodes between 1973 and 1984, and was popular amongst Australians for its larrikin "Aussie" humour. In 1986, Hogan co-produced and starred in "Crocodile Dundee" as a down-to-earth hunter travelling from the Australian Outback to New York City. It remains Australia's most successful film to date.

flashie* · ‎09-10-2012

Australian History

Sunday, October 9, 1803. : Lieutenant - Governor Collins arrives on Australia's southern coast to establish a new settlement.

Long before John Batman made his treaty with the Aborigines to lease land at Port Phillip for a new settlement, the British Government instructed Lieutenant-Governor David Collins to establish a settlement on the southern coast. At that stage, the area was still part of New South Wales. The expedition included two ships, 308 convicts, 51 marines, 17 free settlers, 12 civil officers, and a missionary and his wife. On 9 October 1803 Collins and his expedition landed at the site where Sorrento now stands on the Mornington Peninsula, naming it Port King. The Governor of New South Wales at the time, King, was unaware of the expedition or of the British Government's orders.

The settlement was not a success, as fresh water was in short supply. The local timber was unsuitable for many uses, and the treacherous entrance to Port Phillip Bay made the site unusable as a whaling base. Hearing of better land and timber in Van Diemen's Land, Collins moved most of the settlement across Bass Strait, and established Hobart on the Derwent River early in 1804.