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Tyrone / Re: Mellan/Millan
« on: Saturday 21 November 15 06:14 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Craghead, My name is Di and I live on the Mid North Coast of NSW. I was interested to read that you have ancestors who lived in Maybole and who originated in Ireland as although we are not related, I share the same story. My ancestors travelled from Scotland to Australia also.
As we have the same difficulty, I was wondering if you would like to keep in touch and work together re ideas on how to go about finding that one clue that might unlock the story of our ancestors. As you say - that there were so many Irish settlers living in Scotland in the census, there may be clues in the number of people there, maybe there are other members of the family there or something. No doubt you have thought about this already - anyway if you would like to get in touch and even have a grumble about how the information from Ireland is just not there, I'd be happy to join you.
Cheers Di

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Occupation Interests / Re: Framework Knitters, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire
« on: Monday 01 February 10 11:31 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,  My name is Di and I have just found your site as I'm trying to find more information about family members.
I live in New South Wales, Australia.
Some of my family members came to Australia in about 1844.
One of my uncles was born in 1908 and as a boy of 10 yrs, went to work with his father clearing land for farming (He was given an axe for Christmas). Later, he helped his father build a house with slab walls,a bark roof and bags hung inside for walls - the floor was earth. They lived on native animals that they shot in the bush and rabbits which they also used as skins for blankets etc. And this life was better than the life that earlier family members left behind in England.
I've found it very interesting reading the information here as it gives me an insight into the lives of some of our family, who were knitters and coal miners.
The family I am trying to trace is Worth and the family lived  in Bagworth, (my information has them there between 1605 and about 1639).
But the family is also listed in Stanton, Thornton (1660 to 1741).
Markfield (1757 to 1873),two brothers died in 1780, could they  have been caught up in the Luddite trouble in that year?                         
 Cheers Di


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