Lilian's Tree

  Mary TORP(H)Y    Mary was born  17 Dec 1834 in Ballyinakill, Co Galway, Ireland to Matthew Torp(h)y and Bridget Good. Bridget and four of her children, including Mary arrived in 1850 on the ship Lloyds,  her three other children would arrive in 1853. My next record for Mary is when she marries Thomas Abberton in St Peter and Pauls church, Goulburn on 22 July 1854. As Thomas was also from Ballyinakill, I could guess that they knew each other back home. Mary was a farmers wife and helped run the post office at Mummel, near Goulburn. In 1914 she travelled to Sydney for the funeral of her second son, Thomas and whilst there on 3 July, she passed away, aged 79. Mary's legacy; 15 children, 63 grandchildren and 82 great-grandchildren, that I know off! Of her 15 children, 13 of them reached adult hood and 11 married. Of those births, there were four sets of twins. A remarkable lady. Mary, with her husband Thomas. Ann ENRIGHT. My second paternal great-grandmother is an...

  Just before Christmas I came across an Ancestry tree and on it was my grandmother, her brother and her mum, the dad had a middle name and there were several other children. As I knew my Henry had been married before he married Ann, I though I had 'found" the other children. Below is the letter I sent to her, with my reasons as to why my grandmother, Louisa and her mother and brother shouldn't be on her tree. (I should say that I had been messaging her and we had exchanged email addresses.) Was thrilled when I saw your tree because on Henry's Death Certificate, (1866/4257), it has Henry having six boys, two girls, all living, at the time if his death 31 July 1866. I was puzzled as you have, apart from Louisa and Frederick, seven others, I didn’t have, so I’ve been researching. Bear with me. My first problem was;   There were two Henry Nicolls, marring ladies called Ann, in Goulburn, between 1860 and 1863.   First Henry and Ann hereby known as Henry1 and Ann1. ...