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Hi,

I am hoping someone may be able to help me advance my search relating to my great great grandfather Thomas Edward Brady who we believe was from Kells Co Meath. We have an approximate birth year of 1834 but no actual date. He apparently spent some time living in New York before either returning to Ireland and coming to Australia or coming directly to Australia. I can find no shipping records for any of his travel. His Australian death certificate says his parents names were Thomas Edward and Ann Brady (how accurate this is I do not know as the same record states his wife's name was Ann when in fact it was Margaret Ann, have they just duplicated their own names on the certificate?). He was living in the Muswellbrook area in Australia  by 1862 and working as a mail contractor and that year he sponsored the family of Owen Sharkey to come to Australia from Meath. He married Singleton girl Margaret Ann Glass in 1869 at the Presbyterian church in Sydney Australia despite the fact that she was a strict Methodist. They were married by Rev Dunmore lang who was an active immigration facilitator at the time and this may explain why. I assume Thomas would have not been Roman Catholic  but I do not know this for a fact. He ran a dairy farm in Singleton NSW, raised 9 children and died there in 1892. If anyone can help me find more information I'd be very grateful. Thanks Christine

I too am an ancestor, Agnes Isabella Symmons (later Hutchison) was my great grandmother. Do you have any information about when they came to Australia? I understand their mother Eleanor came too and they settled in Cowra NSW. Did Henry come as well?