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Many thanks for your help regarding the Lavery family.  It has cleared up a mystery for me.  Thanks also for the additional information regarding the Parkers.  I had found the details on the census and with the assistance of a couple of other generous Wicklow RootsChatters have managed to get quite a few details of this family.
 
The only thing which still eludes me is the death of their mother Catherine Parker (nee Chapman).  There are no death entries on the civil registrations which match with her.  I've bought a few certificates hoping but no match as yet.  Perhaps she died between the birth of her youngest son Peter in 1862 and before civil registration began. 

Hello Erato,

I've some correspondence with a descendant of Benjamin R. Chapman (b 1813) the eldest child of Benjamin Chapman and Martha Richardson.

The other children were John         1815
                                    Henry        1817
                                    Catherine  1821   my G.G. grandmother
                                    Ann           1824

I've just had a quick look through my notes and found one his emails contained the following information...............

" Their sister, Anne Chapman Johnston, also came to Minnesota from
Ireland about 1873, or so.  Only siblings Catherine and John stayed in Ireland."

And from a letter written about 1930 by Catherine Parker who would have been around 80 at the time of writing. Catherine was the daughter of Catherine Chapman

"The flower of Ireland leave her for foreign lands.  A great many go to America.  I do not hear from any of my Mother's family in America now.  There must be crops of them there.  One branch went to Canada."


Jan.

By the way I did make it to Ecuador last November as part of a 6 week trip around South America.

If my memory serves me right (and it doesn't very often these days) Jews and Quakers were able to keep their own records and were not forced to use the Church of England for baptisms etc.

Hi Kate,

Sewell, Parker, Wyborn -  all very old W.A. names from the wheatbelt area.

My son-in-law has these names in his family.  I think his grandmother was a Sewell from around Northam.  I bet someone has written books on these families so it could be worth checking at the State Library of W.A. 

Jan
Perth.