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Australia / Re: John and Mary Campbell, nee Smith, Convicts in NSW
« on: Monday 03 March 25 03:26 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, Shume
I have not had any significant problems in finding info online on the NSW immigrant Blanch family, and I have used Trove extensively.  As I said in my original post, I would like to know more about the convicts John and Mary Campbell, née Smith (born circa 1774 & 1786 respv.), especially beyond the 1828 Muster ("census").  For a start, I would like to know when and where they died.
Kind regards
Kevin

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Australia / John and Mary Campbell, nee Smith, Convicts in NSW
« on: Sunday 02 March 25 02:15 GMT (UK)  »
John Campbell was born circa 1774 in Co. Armagh and was transported to NSW in 1801 for his participation as a United Irishman in the rebellion of 1798. He was a labourer and received a conditional pardon in 1803. Ten years later, in Parramatta St. Johns CoE, he married Mary Smith, born in London in 1786 and transported in 1812.  By 1828, John and Mary had two children, Elizabeth aged 7 and Sarah aged 3, and John was the proprietor of Campbell's Farm.  John may have died in the Liverpool District.

Primarily, my interest lies in the descendants of Elizabeth, who became a Turner before marrying Stephen Blanch in 1850, in the Wellington District, NSW, but I would like to know more about John and Mary. 

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Berkshire / Re: Illegitimate Offspring of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1767-1820)
« on: Thursday 23 January 25 06:39 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks to all who have contributed so far.

maddys52 and heywood have provided evidence from the 1841 Census that James and Maria were not born in Berkshire, as the children were; Their origins remain unknown.

Garden genie has mentioned Prince Edward’s long-term partner, Madame de Saint-Laurent.  Wikipedia informs us that Recent scholarship (particularly by Mollie Gillen, who was granted access to the Royal Archive at Windsor Castle) has established that no children were born of the 27-year relationship between Prince Edward and Madame de Saint-Laurent….. After the Duke's marriage in 1818 to the Dowager Princess of Leiningen, Madame de Saint-Laurent retreated to Paris where she lived out her days amongst her family and friends.  The Prince may have had other mistresses during that relationship.  The Australian historian, Mollie Gillen died in 1909, but her book The Prince and His Lady (1970) might be worth reading.

Maddys52 I was unable to find the article on Edwardina of Feb 1837 in The Age but I did find some in other Australian papers of June that year. A Mrs Carey is not mentioned but the article suggests that Edwarina may have been the child of the Princess of Wales and that George the Third gave the lady in question permission to wear the Royal Arms, and to assume, by courtesy, the title of Lady Edwardina Kent.

Ruskie I am not sure  if DNA testing will be of much value as Maria is eight or so generations back and I have found finding connections with low percentage matches is a challenge, as many people don’t publish much in the way of a family tree. Furthermore, as you say, the royal descendants concerned may not have had DNA tests. Nevertheless, I will suggest to my granddaughter-in-law and her mother that they have (at least) autosomal DNA testing.
I agree the photo of Sarah is of good quality and in view of your comment as to not resembling QV, I asked my wife to have a look.  She thinks there is some semblance and also even slightly (the nose) to Prince Edward.

Little Nell I agree, the hair style and dress is most likely 1850s to 1880s.  Newer hair styles came in within that period but older people may have stuck with the older style. The photo is more likely to be Sarah’s than Maria’s.

rosie99 Surely, that is Maria’s marriage.

I have found a profile of Maria Cross (1803-1848) on geni.com containing the statement Records Blanked Out By Queen Victoria’s mother Cross.  I will start a new discussion on that platform, seeking evidence of parentage.

Your help is much appreciated.

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Berkshire / Illegitimate Offspring of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1767-1820)
« on: Wednesday 22 January 25 06:25 GMT (UK)  »
Is anyone an expert on the subject, as I am trying to confirm information found on popular sites such as wikitree and findagrave that a family that migrated to Nelson, New Zealand from England on "Clifford", arriving May 1842, included a half-sister of Queen Victoria, Maria Harriet Plumridge, nee Cross (cir 1797-1848). 
According to Wikipedia, Prince Edward had mistresses before his marriage to Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (Marie Louise Victoire) in 1818 and he was in Halifax, Nova Scotia from 1794 to late 1798 (then 31 yrs old) when he returned to England until May 1802 when he went to Gibralta.
Maria may have been a house servant at Windsor and married James Plumridge a gardener, perhaps in 1827. They had a son James who died young and daughters Eliza (1830-1884) and Sarah Ann (1833-19110 who accompanied them to NZ.  There is a photo online, said to be that of Sara Ann, but could be that of her mother, that bears a striking resemblance to Queen Victoria.
My primary interest is in the decendants of Eliza who married Heny McGee in 1849 in NZ.

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Australia / George Dunn Brown Hunter
« on: Wednesday 08 January 25 07:17 GMT (UK)  »
In researching a Lindsay family ancestry, I have come across two people with the same unusual name (the Subject), one born in Scotland in 1868 and the other born in  Mt Kembla, Woolongong, NSW in 1890.  They may be father and son but I can't find evidence of that.

Does anyone know anything about these men and the families? ???

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Fermanagh / Re: Magee Family of migrants to NSW
« on: Friday 06 January 23 06:16 GMT (UK)  »
Family history is my hobby and I have been at it for decades, and more so since I retired some 10 Yrs ago.

The pages of the old Irish RC Priests' books have been indexed but access may not be free.  I suggest you try https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/ and/or Ancestry.com. The latter can be accessed for free at a public library (at least in QLD), some of which have a visiting volunteer genealogist who may be able to help as well.

I can't find much about Thomas E. Waters other than his wedding to Ethel Mellare in Lismore in 2022.  Do you have any details of his birth, death and parents.  An index of famine orphans has
one person with the Waters surname, viz. Ann Waters, from Sligo, age 14, RC, arrived on "Lady Kennaway", Melbourne, 1848 (https://irishfaminememorial.org/orphans/database/).  Is this the connection you mentioned?


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Fermanagh / Re: Magee Family of migrants to NSW
« on: Friday 06 January 23 02:32 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Anne Maree

We are connected by the marriage of a Farrell to a Mellare.  My father was Kevin John Farrell (1918-1989) and his older sister, Lorna May Farrell (1915-1999) married a son of John Mellare (1868-1956) and Sarah Ann nee Flatley (1872-1955), (Lawrence) Bernard Mellare (1909-1949) in Lismore in 1936.

Kind regards

Kevin

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Fermanagh / Re: Magee Family of migrants to NSW
« on: Thursday 05 January 23 07:57 GMT (UK)  »
Anne Maree
An excellent source of info on the descendants of John Flatley can be found at https://www.newitaly.org.au/the-families/flately-john/
Where do you fit in?
Kevin

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Fermanagh / Re: Magee Family of migrants to NSW
« on: Wednesday 04 January 23 21:19 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry. I should have provided more inf.  The names on the right were recorded by the surviving NOK as the parents.  Michael was John's father, but his mother's name was not given. This is from the NSW Index on BDM, found online at https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au/

Name              Registration Number Father's Given Name(s) Mother's Given Name(s) District
FLATLEY JOHN 12830/1916             MICHAEL                                                         LISMORE

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