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 😮
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
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?
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.
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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.
