Lilian's Tree

 Continuing from  Part 1   I would sometimes look at the document and try and figure out what it said, I have even looked at the reel it was on, with no luck in working it out. I concentrated on building Thomas' family, from his marriage in 1854 to Mary Torpy to today. FASTWORWARD TO 2022. In the past two years, while Covid-19 has kept us very close to home, I've continued my family history research and this year though I'd try and crack the mystery of 'Catherine's' arrival. Now Ancestry have digitised the New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896,  Catherine   This is what I found. While it is a better copy than the one I have, it is still hard to read, so I downloaded it and tried to lighten it. Still not the best but I can now see that Patrick paid for his brother and two sisters to come and that a Margaret Hickey took Catherine's place. Why?  Still no closer to the answer. A discussion with friends, lead to the suggestion...

 Back in the 1980's, I like so many others started researching my family history. My wonderful surprise was a cousin, Joan,  who lived eight houses away from me and was very willing to share information and help me with my research. One day she handed me a passenger list from the Joseph Somes, this lead me to discovering the arrival of my great-grandfather Thomas Abberton and his sisters, Anne and Catherine.  Well we though it was Catherine but... This is part of the page Joan, gave me with a very interesting margin note,  As you can see it is a photocopy of a printout of a microfilm, from the New South Wales State Archives and Records and is very difficult to read.* From what we could decipher Catherine Abberton DIDN'T arrive on 3 February 1852 and that a Margaret Hickey had taken her place!  Why???? That question was put in the 'To Hard Basket' and I concentrated on Thomas and his family. FLASHBACK. In researching Thomas, I had to take in the whole family and ...

I realise not everyone reading this knows how BIG my search field is. SO, My great-grandparents, Thomas Abberton and Mary Torpy had 15 children, 13 reach adult hood, 11 married and had large families. This is what I'm trolling through. Well, I've heard back from CH, he is related but he hasn't got back to me with his shared, if any cM's with my big match, DM. sigh. I haven't been idle and have contacted four more close matches. One I know is from the the eldest of the 15 and I don't think a match. Why? Well I also know two other ladies, PB and MW and they don't match DM.  Not totally crossing that link off, yet. I also contacted both SB and GA, both I know are on my Grandparents line. GA shares 282 cM's with DL, close.  SB is checking for me. I've also used Blaine  T Bettinger's relationship charts to try and work out the connection. https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2017/08/26/august-2017-update-to-the-shared-cm-project/ Here is the ...

Thomas Joseph Abberton was born 30 March 1865 [i] , the elder of twins, at Mummel, near Goulburn. The other twin was a girl, Francis Maria. Their parents were Thomas Abberton and Mary Torpy. Thomas Joseph was their second son and eighth child. I don’t know anything about his childhood but can assume that as the school was located on what had been Abberton land that he would have attended, sometimes. He would probably have worked on the family farm and maybe helped in the post office, that his parents ran. I do know that his future wife, Louisa Nicolls, was appointed teacher of Mummel School in 1885 [ii] and that this is where they would have met. Thomas and Louisa married 1 January 1890. [iii] They had seven children, Fredrick Thomas 1891-1935, Sidney Michael 1892-1928, Marianne Clara 1894-1975, Matthew Henry 1896-1958, Leslie John 1898-1917 WW1, William Patrick 1900-1978 and Michael 1903-1903. Louisa also died in 1903 [iv] , just after Michael. In 1904 Thomas w...

Family Friday;   Thomas ABBERTON Thomas was born c1830, in Ballinakill, Co Galway, Ireland, to Thomas Abberton and Bridget Halleran. I know that Thomas was sponsored by his brother Patrick, of Goulburn, NSW and that he arrived in February 1852*, with his sister Anne, on the Joseph Somes. It would appear that they had another brother, James and sister, Catherine. This pair arrived in 1854* on the Caroline. Thomas married Mary Torp(h)y in the St Peter and St Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, Goulburn, on 22 July 1854*. Mary had arrived, with her mother and siblings, in 1850* (As this was during the time of the Great Famine, in Ireland, 1845 -1852. It is probably safe to assume that that was the reason they left and came to New South Wales.) Thomas and Mary settled at Mummell, some 23km from Goulburn. They raised a large family of 15 children, including four sets of twins. Two children died young, an un-named female twin in 1859 and Julia May, in 1879 aged four years. Of ...

                                                     Thomas Abberton. I love searching Trove, as I always find new articles. This one is a different obituary, for my Great-Grandfather. I didn't know that he went to the Ovens goldfields, in Victoria! This is another place to search.  The Mr Tom Abberton (Sydney), is my Grandfather. Catholic Press (Sydney, NSW : 1895 - 1942), Saturday 11 January 1902, page 22 Thomas Abberton and is family are going to become my Family Friday, from 19th, I hope you will join me on my ancestral discoveries. Bye for now, Lilian.