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Hi Jodee lee , thanks for your message about Robert McCoy . I don’t know a great deal about the McCoy Family in South Australia . I remember my Grandfather Percy McCoy telling me his brother Adam & his sister Veronica aka Vera visiting him & his wife Mary in Brisbane many years ago .  One day I’m going to visit S A . I would like to see places where my Grandfather lived eg Port Augusta & Melrose & hopefully meet some relatives .  I look forward to hearing from you .
Cheers Matt McCoy

G’day helpers , I’m just posting an update on my request  for information on the Hanson Family . I along with 2 cousins have done DNA tests & we have found we have NO dna match to another member of the HANSON family who is a direct descendant of Charles & Annie HANSON née FORD . That rules Lilian Mary Elizabeth b. 1905 being a biological daughter of both Charles & Annie or any of their elder children .
We also have had NO match with the names DONNELLY  PICKING etc which rules out Mary Elizabeth DONNELLY b. 1905 daughter of Norah Valentine DONNELLY .
We ALL have close dna matches with the GREENTREE CALLOW CAVANOUGH COWAN COHEN GOSPER HOLMES LANE TURNBULL MARSDEN families from the Tamworth & Windsor area of NSW . While we are waiting on a closer match we do have two 3rd cousins & over eighty 4-6th cousins linking to this family which is a pretty positive result . With the help of the dna we are putting together a family tree & have been helped by other dna matches we have contacted from this GREENTREE line .
Maybe one day someone reading this will be able to link Lilian Mary Elizabeth to the GREENTREE family , we hope so . Thanks for all your help along the way , Matt 

Many thanks to everyone who helped me in researching the Hanson Family Tree & also information about my Grandmother Lillian Mary McCoy , formally Hanson . It has been very helpful & interesting . Cheers Matt James

On Lillian Mary Hanson’s marriage certificate in 1926 her age is 21 years old . On her death certificate in 1977 her age is listed at 72 years old . Her birthday was always celebrated on the 12th December . 1905 seems to be the correct year . My father born in 1927 was 50 when his mother passed away .

I do have their Marriage Certificate  my Grandmothers parents are listed as Charles Hanson & Elizabeth Anne Forde .  My father told me that a Mrs Byrne who lived next door to the Hanson’s had an affair  with Mr Hanson & the result was my Grandmother . Mr Byrne not impressed handed the baby over the fence & told Mr Hanson he could bring her up . On my fathers death certificate his mother is listed as  Mary Elizabeth Byrne . The above is what us Grandchildren have been told . I was in the BDM Office in Brisbane & they have no Birth record of my Grandmother under various names I gave them . Maybe she was Mary Elizabeth Donnelly . She did name her daughter Elizabeth . Elizabeth’s first born daughter was named Mary . It is all very interesting to say the least