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The Common Room / Re: Fornication and baptism
« on: Friday 01 April 11 06:51 BST (UK) »
I had an ancestor who had thirteen chidren - they only got married the year before the mother died. many prople in the remote areas of aus didn't have anyone to marry them before the babies started arriving - the parents would get married and then baptise the children on the same day! A convict forfather was denied permission to marry as punishment for fornicating two children into existence so he had a third to prove the point. So there is nothing new under the Southern Cross!
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You never know what you'll find.
. As a newby, I believed everything they put up and I took my family tree back to Charlemagne (like, 10th century!) It was a heap of rubbish and I had to delete about a third of my tree. There was one parent who was a hundred years younger than her children, generations were mixed up, children added to the wrong family, alleged marriages never happened etc. I am a lot more careful now, checking all the way with sites like Family Search and various BMD's, government records etc. Some ancestry suggestions can give a starting point, even if they prove wrong, they cross out that possibilty... That's the fun of researching a family tree!
to all those who replied so quickly - it will give me some work to over the next few days looking in places I would never have considered. Henry had me baffled because I couldn't find him, but I didn't think of looking at our friends across the Tasman, or realize that passengers in steerage would not be named! I am still fairly new at this caper but with help like yours I can learn so much more. 
Maybe born in Sussex, 1827, baptised in Burwash, parents William and Elizabeth, I think, then marries Sarah AVARD in Australia in 1853. That much is definate. He died in 1882, buried at Tarro NSW, where a cemetary inscription gives his age at death and names his wife as Sarah. His record of death also names his parents as William and Elizabeth. I have ordered a full transcript of his death certificate, which I have been told will give his length of time in Australia. No record of Henry being born in NSW. No convict record fits these dates. No immigration record found for him or father William. Can anyone help? Could he have been born in another Australian state?