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Australia / Re: James THORPE - arrival in Australia
« on: Friday 14 September 18 04:56 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Maxene for your wonderful message (because I am new to this I can't yet send you a reply directly until I post three times). I have attached a picture of the psalm book I found recently. I would like to think it belonged to James' Thorpe but maybe I am stretching with that. I'm not called Farley, I just used it due to the family connections.
kind regards
Andrew

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Australia / Re: James THORPE - arrival in Australia
« on: Wednesday 12 September 18 08:00 BST (UK)  »
Hi Maxene and all on this thread,
I'm a descendant, through my mother, of Alexander Thorpe, the first child born in the colony of James Thorpe. I have recently been clearing up my parents house for sale, finding all sorts of interesting things that were destined for the garbage. I knew of my descent to Alexander Thorpe - I have a big family bible from the 19th century that lists all the birth dates going back to him. However, after I received a marriage certificate for Alexander and Jane Campbell today, I was able to see the father was called James and the mother Jane.
And then it was a matter of reading a few threads and thanks to your hard work I had a line going back to 1775 in Donegal.
One of the very interesting discoveries - which was in a suitcase in the family garage, untouched for decades - was a small book of Psalms of David. Approved by the Church of Scotland, printed in Belfast. The year was 1836, which made me wonder if it had come out on the Adam Lodge the following year.
Thanks for all your hard work.
regards
Farley

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