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Hi Carla

I know your post was quite some time ago, back in 2008, however I am hoping that you will receive my reply.

Your great grandmother, Sheilah Evlyn Ismay Oakley, and my great grandmother, Joyce Oakley, were sisters. I read your post whilst I was searching the internet to find out what became of Cyril. I had not heard the story about the Norwegian sailor before, however our family knew it was not certain who his father was. We had been told he had gone to live with his grandparents, Clara & Percy Oakley after his mother's death, as did her daughter (Cyril's half sister) Cecily. Apparently Cecily and Cyril were close in childhood and I wonder if they kept in touch throughout their lives.

I would love to make contact with you and tell you what information I have about Sheilah and her family. I am also in contact with my great aunt who is a niece of Sheilah's and will be checking what information she might have.

I would love to know if you have tracked down anything further since 2008. Please let me know if you would like to get in touch.

Regards

Kathy

I am looking for any information anyone might have on Francis Fitpatrick who married Ann Jack nee Murphy. They are my 3rd great grandparents. This is what I know:-

Ann Jane Murphy (her name on her marriage certificate to John Grey Jack) is also later referred to as Ann Elizabeth (as it appears on her death record). It appears that she was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1831 and moved, with her parents to Hobart, Australia in 1833 on a ship called “Strathfieldsaye”. Sometime around 1840 they moved and settled in Adelaide where they lived in Wakefield Street. Ann was one of around 13 siblings. She was 22 at the time of her marriage to John Grey Jack on the 14th July 1853 in Christchurch, Adelaide, South Australia. Their wedding announcement in the newspaper of the time makes mention of her father “Mr Murphy” but no mention of her mother.
John Grey Jack was an engraver living at Leigh Street, Adelaide, South Australia and he was 31 at the time of his marriage to Ann Murphy.
They had 3 children:-
1854 - Annie Elizabeth Jack born in Adelaide and died 1924 in Victoria
   Married John Vickers Heily b 1839 Ireland d 1924 Victoria
1855 – William Jack born 4th Dec and died 9th Nov 1856 at the age of 11 months (William is buried at the West Terrace Cemetery in Adelaide)
1857 – William John Gray Jack born in Adelaide and died 1860 at the age of 3 in Bendigo, Victoria.
John Grey Jack dies, tragically, on 17 April 1857 at the age of 35 only four years after his marriage to Ann. (see Trove newspaper article) It appears that Ann Jack (Murphy) left Adelaide after the death of her husband and relocated to Bendigo, Victoria where her second son died the same year as her husband. Her parents had also moved to Bendigo.
She then met and married?? (no date) Francis Fitzpatrick and they had 3 children:-
1865 – Lucy Blanche Fitzpatrick died 1955 in Albury, NSW
   Married Mark Herman Goldenberg 1892-1926
1868 – Alice Maud Fitzpatrick died 1875 Collingwood, Vic at the age of 7 from malignant scarlet fever
1869 – Frances Eugene Fitzpatrick who died in 1944 in Canberra ACT
   Married Charles Harold Cornish 1868-1944
Ann Fitzpatrick nee Murphy, dies in 1900 in Collingwood Vic and is buried in a single grave with her grandson George H Cornish (who died at the age of 10 in 1903 from drowning and was the brother of her son in law, Charles Harold Cornish) and Ronald Exel (the foster child of her daughter Frances Eugene & Charles Harold Cornish, who died at the age of 3 in 1916, from an infectious disease).

On the death record of their daughter Alice Maud Fitzpatrick - Francis is listed as a Broker and on the death record of his wife, Ann Fitzpatrick, he seems to be listed as "missing". I do not have any other dates and don't seem to be able to find any records regarding Francis at all. Does anyone know anything about this man.  Have found some Trove newspaper notices for a Francis Fitzpatrick but so far have not been able to tie any of them in for certain.

Thanks Ros
Thanks for all the information. I am a member of Ancestry.com and so I already have all of the above information. What I really need is some information about their parentage in Ireland. So far I have been unable to complete the puzzle.
kind regards
Kathy