australia

Hi everyone, I have just returned from a 4 000 km round trip to my High School reunion, and it was somewhat exciting driving down a windy mountain road to the town where I grew up. Most Australians would have heard of Port Macquarie in New South Wales- it was an early destination for transported...

This person is from several online family trees and is a DNA Match of mine who died last year so I can show her name: Joan Eileen Barton, KW's DNA Match; B:7 Sep 1930 Victoria, Australia; D:17 Aug 2024 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, married a Mr Brown and died as Joan Brown. Her GGGF Joseph...

I have been researching my ancestry for quite some time, but this individual stumps me. Any insight or assistance or direction in where to look next would be really appreciated! I have confirmed with living relatives and have copies of passed down documentation of proof that this individual...

William was born to my C1 X 2R, Sarah Eliza Collison who had married a William Lamont- either born in Queensland or Scotland. I found a Baptism for William Arthur, but no civil registration: Sydney Anglican Parish Registers: William Arthur Lamont Record Type Baptism Birth Date 13 Jan 1882...

Hypotheses please! I am trying to connect some dots that might lead to why some chunks of DNA turn up among people whose genes SEEM to originate only from England, Scotland and Canada. There is one exception: There are some descendants of my 3rd Cousin X 1 removed, surname Cadby, who was in a...

I am trying to find the correct Benjamin Jones who was the father of the 2nd Railways Commissioner for the State of Victoria, Australia. I know that Benjamin married an Anne/Annie Bond (often mistakenly written as Bona), in 1867 in Victoria (Reg. 2398). Their children were at least Florence (b...

Several friends and I, some of us cousins, are puzzled by the career of a particular James Joseph McDonald born in Prince Edward Island in 1863/64. His parents were Neil Joe McDonald (b. abt. 1838) and Mary Ann (b. abt. 1842). Neil Joe's father seems to be an Alexander McDonald born about 1800...

I have tried everywhere to get som info about him before his arrival in Australia. What I have is the fact that he married Elisabeth Ann Wilson from Kildare, Ireland in Melbourne, Vic. in 1848 and had one son James born in Melbourne 1861. William left a note; In May 1839 I was appointed...