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Hello Denis, My name is john jackman, my father was Walter, my grandfather was also Walter, i can trace my tree back to Martin 1793 so we are related, i would love to get in touch with you but i think you have to post 3 messages before you can contact someone direct, i hope someone will correct me here. hope to connect soon.

Hello Tinamac, Well what a lovely surprise, i guess we must be cousins? i would love to hear more about you and your [ our? ] family, where do you live? any way to answer your question i believe walter had at least two and possibly four sisters although i am not 100% on that at the moment, i have started to put a family tree together and have found quite a few names but i need to double check them and get them in some sort of order, i would be glad to share this with you if you are interested, we need to swap email addresses and phone no's but i think you will need to make three posts to this site before you can do this, his sisters are Anastatia, Mary and possibly Margret and eileen, hope this helps, look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you all for your replies i will read up on your suggestions eagerly, I had always assumed that my father had gone to England during the war to enlist but i was told recently by a cousin that he did not go to England until 1949-50 and that during the war he was in the Irish version of the home guard, he says he is certain of this because he would leave his rifle in the hall by the front door and my cousin would " borrow" it to shoot rabbits, dad was in Bennettsbridge Kilkenny at the time.

Thanks again

thank you once again Jack, it seems as though a lot of irish people emigrated to Australia during the 1800's