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Australia / Re: Seeking a family who lived in Geraldton in Western Australia.
« on: Thursday 22 August 19 02:10 BST (UK)  »
Hi all, Just thought I would give an update as to where I am at with my search for Henry Aubrey in case any of you have any ideas on where to go from here. I have been using hubby's DNA matches and focusing on those who have DNA in common on the Aubrey side. I have built out some 'play' trees to see if they help. So far, I have found several DNA matches who all descend from an Irish couple who emigrated to USA - John Barnes (Barrins/Berrane/Beirne) and Mary Golden. They were born in County Mayo Ireland in the 1860's and emigrated to Chicago, Illinois. I have been able to determine their parents were Patrick Barnes + Anne Rutledge and John Golden + Margaret Kelly, all born late 1820's / 1830's. But the records for this time / area are not the best so haven't been able to go back a generation, or even determine siblings for any of the latter. There is a good chance that Henry Aubrey is actually a sibling (which ties in with your Irish theory CallyJ) and that he changed his name somewhere along the way. At the moment I am not sure how to proceed from here, until another prominant DNA match appears. If any one has any ideas, please feel free to let me know!! Would love to break through this major brickwall.

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Australia / Re: Seeking a family who lived in Geraldton in Western Australia.
« on: Sunday 24 September 17 01:36 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Sue, amended my post accordingly.

Hi CallyJ.
I agree that it looks as though his name must have changed once arriving in Australia. Hubby did have a DNA match that had a few Abery ancestors in their tree, but I have tried building out that family as far back as I can and then forward again, and so far have no leads to connect them to Henry Aubery. I will keep at it and if I find out anything more I will let you know :)

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Australia / Re: Seeking a family who lived in Geraldton in Western Australia.
« on: Saturday 23 September 17 03:11 BST (UK)  »
Hi Vincent,
Hubby too, grew up not knowing anything about that side of the family. He was quite interested when I told him that we had connected yesterday. His father is aware that I am researching the family tree but to this point in time has not provided any information and I get the feeling he isn't overly interested in a lot of it. After doing my families family trees, I wanted to do hubby's, more for our children to know their ancestry. I find it all so facinating - I love it!
Hopefully we can chat further and perhaps cross out some more connections.
Sheena

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Australia / Re: Seeking a family who lived in Geraldton in Western Australia.
« on: Friday 22 September 17 12:30 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,
My husband is also the grandson of Lena and Thomas Fitzgerald. I started building out his family tree last year and discovered this post. I was just re-reading the information as I am trying to break through the Henry Aubrey wall, and discovered the new comments.
For any of you who are interested, I did manage to break through the Walter William Cowan wall yesterday. I found a possible lead and was building out the information, and then it was later confirmed thanks to a high DNA match (hubby has done his DNA). His father was actually George Chowne and his mother Emma Hutchby and he was born William Walter Chowne in London in 1864. So yet another name change  :P
So far DNA hasn't helped with finding out who Henry Aubrey was yet though. If anyone has any ideas, i'd love to hear them - I wish WA records are better for genealogy!! Sheena  :)

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