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I am interested in the following two brothers who were both carpenters and emigrated to Australia and New Zealand.  William Bragg bn Sheldon or Berkswell in 1849 and Alfred William Bragg bn Solilhull in 1850.  Both were sons of William Bragg and his wife Johanna Clyma who married in Aston in 1842.  As these brother's have the same occupation as Thomas Bragg - the father of your Charles and localities co-incide - I wonder if you have discovered a connection between these men.  Lorraine

I have personally seen the microfilms of the registers.  And in one marriage register it says one thing.  Then in the new register where the entries are numbered the entry is repeated.  I have never seen this before where an entry in the old register is repeated in the new.  I have photocopies of both entries.  One has to be right and one wrong.  Lorraine

Margaret was the second wife of a Tom Colsh.  The Colsh surname in various records is spelt Colch, Colsh and Coulch - in Ireland and in Queensland, Australia.  The children of Tom and Margaret were Tom Jnr, James and John twins who died as babes, Joseph and Mary Anne.  THe children all died intestate.  Only Mary Ann married and her husband deserted her.
I do know that Mary Ann Colsh dau of another Tom Colsh (the one who married Catherine Gavan) emigrated to the USA and died at Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio.  She was married to a John Colsh too.  I do not know who this John Colsh is - perhaps he was a cousin.  In the Griffiths valuation at townland of Gloncon (Cloncon) a Tom Coulch and John Coulch leased land from Tom Jackson.  Tom is my ancestor & I think that Patrick is a descendant of John.  It is likely Tom and John were either brothers or 1st cousins.  Everyone thinks they were related but how close who knows.  I paid for the Tullamore History Place to do a Colch name search and it didn't reveal much I didn't already know but at least I know there isn't anything else.  I also spent about 20 hours reading the Killeigh RC church registers in Dublin.  Lorraine

There were two Colch's living at Cloncon in the early-mid 1800s.  They were living on land that adjoined so it is presumed that sometime in the recent past they were the same family.  The Parish records do not exist that prove they were related.   I have spoken with a local historian and have been shown where the houses of the two different families were located.  The were both pulled down in the mid 1900s and new houses are now on the sites.  The house Mary Anne lived in until her death in the 1950s is the house of my ancestors Thomas Colsh and his first wife Mary Shearin.  A local historian showed me Mary Anne's unmarked grave in Killeigh and also told me that of the other house occupied by Colch's at Cloncon the family disappeared about the turn of the century - early 1900s.  It is possible they emigrated - some from Tullamore went to the America's - maybe they did as well.

I am interested in David Morris and his wife Ann Morgans who married in St Issells in 1813 and had children David, Isaac, Elizabeth, Ann and James.

I have previously noted that William Morris was a widower and Anne Evans was a spinster when they married on 21/2/1826 at St Issells.  That Ann was 92yo and living with her daughter Elizabeth Allen in the 1891 census.

William Morris was buried on 12/12/1851 and was listed as 86yo of Stepaside.

That William Morris and Anne Evans children were -
1. William (1826 - )
2. Lewis (~1828 - >1891)
3. John (1828 - >1861)
4. Mary (~1832 - >1853)
5. Elizabeth (~1834 - >1891)
6. Martha (1834 - )
7. Thomas (~1837 - >1857)
8. George (~1840 - 1921)
9. William (~1853 - >1861)

I would be interested if you have found anything on the family I am interested in.  Louis