Clair, my cousin researched my fathers side of the family and put together two books.  The first is how they came to Australia and it goes back to 1845 to an ancestor in Ireland.  The books have photos letters and copies of articles from the newspaper about the gold some of them discovered in 1879 in the Lisle goldfield.  I love reading about all that type of thing.

 

Hope it's going well for you, imagine it could get frustrating....

lol Karen

 

One day I'd like to get into researching the family tree Soul & Clair, I have a few snippets of information, if my kids ever leave home I might have time to do it 

 

Night back there Iza

yep, think you'd need lots of time and patience Debra.

 

Another relly owned the Federal Hotel in Wynard Tasmania in 1922.  You're in Tas aren't you flashie?  Do you know if the pub is still there?  Others were bootmakers in Newnham Launceston and yet more were Station Master and domestics in Sth Burnie and Burnie, respectively.

 

The ones that discovered the goldfield had 17 children !!!!!!  poor woman

Soul I wonder if we're related lol

 

My mother's ancestors went to Tassie as they were tanners and apprently convicts made boots???

Haha who knows Debra....it's a small world really.

 

 There is a poster on here whose mother married someone in tas with the same surname and it's not a common name.  Use to be only two unrelated families in Australia with the name and I guess it would still be that now.

I'm too impatient to research my family tree, so I pestered Flashie and she did it for me. She's amazing! She found so many people in my family.... But no convicts. I should complain about that 😄

I'd definitely complain! Get her to re do it

 

soul 17 children All mine have 10 to 13 children and no, no convicts for me

I know clair..crazy hey !

 

I don't know how he found the time to "make" them, with all the gold digging etc.

 

I only have info from that side of the family, so 3 more grandparents to research when I have plenty of time to do it .

 

I don't know if there are any convicts clair but not on the side my cousin researched anyway.

I did ask her to double check, Clair, so she did, but still didn't find any...which makes my family very unAustralian. Personally, I think she needs to look harder to avoid further offence at my shameful ancestral faults.

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I did ask her to double check, Clair, so she did, but still didn't find any...which makes my family very unAustralian. Personally, I think she needs to look harder to avoid further offence at my shameful ancestral faults.

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Havn't times changed!  There was a time when admitting to convict ancestry was an embarrassment.

 

Now it is seen as a badge of honour 

 

~~~~ Clair ~~~~