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Kent / Re: Could this be my missing Rachel?
« on: Thursday 25 June 20 13:07 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I think it is your Rachel.  I descend from John Vollins, brother of Rachel Vollins, and have many DNA matches with Vinton descendants.  My DNA test is on Ancestry. 
John Vollins married Anne Heather.  I have a reasonable amount of information on the Vollins/Vollins family. 
Cheers

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Sussex / Re: Ade family
« on: Wednesday 19 February 20 04:49 GMT (UK)  »
This is a bit too late for your thesis.  I think John Wesley Ade became John Wesley Ade Thomas in New South Wales.  He was a shoemaker and may have been employed by his future brother in law George Bramer (also a shoemaker).  He married as John Thomas to (H)Esther Jane Head in 1855 in Maitland.  They had three children (Sarah Jane, William Henry & Maria) who would provide him with 21 grandchildren.  By the 1870s the family had moved to the Sydney inner-city area and they were an urban family.  He married again late in life and died in 1912 [THOMAS.—July 8, 1912, at his residence, Dora, Ocean-street, West Kogarah, John Wesley A., dearly beloved husband of Mrs. Amelia Ellen Thomas, aged 80 years.].  He is buried as John Wesley Ade in Woronora Cemetery, Sydney.  In 1896 he applied for a patent for an invention relating to tobacco.  The Sussex Advertiser states that his crime was stealing one jar of strawberry jam worth 1 shilling. 

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Tipperary / Re: Shortis and Mara Families Carrick-on-Suir
« on: Tuesday 22 December 15 20:38 GMT (UK)  »
I suspect your Richard And Anastasia Shortis are part of my family.  It begins with Richard Shortis who married Anastasia O'Neill circa 1760 and lived Carrick on Suir and at Portlaw. Richard was a proctor.  He and Anastasia were murdered in 1799 and were buried at Portlaw (grave is online).  There are online accounts of the murder as it was quite horrible and politically motivated.

They had 2 children that I know of - Edmund and Sarah.  I suspect also a James.  Edmund stayed in Carrick.  Sarah married a soldier in the Dorset militia about 1800 named Demas Vincent.  Sarah & Demas eventually settled back in his home town Dewlish Dorset.  Their two daughters, Amelia and Elizabeth both emigrated to Australia.  Elizabeth is my ancestor.   I suspect all 'Shortis' in Carrick are descendants of Richard & Anastasia.
Cheers
PoppyG

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