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Australia / Re: Scarborough and Surprize
« on: Wednesday 30 March 22 11:27 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for that. I suspected as much but could not find a reference on the Internet to confirm my suspicion. Good to have a question resolved in one response.

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Australia / Scarborough and Surprize
« on: Wednesday 30 March 22 07:26 BST (UK)  »
A simple question hopefully. Why are so many convicts listed as arriving on the Scarborough and Surprize (sometimes including the Neptune) rather than on one of the boats?

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Australia / Re: George Nicholls
« on: Thursday 24 February 22 05:07 GMT (UK)  »
Of course you are right on age. I somehow mixed up the dates.

The description of spinster and widow was very enlightening. Not so much in this case, but for the future. The witnesses give me a few leads to probe, but not sure it is going to turn up anything. They could both be friends of the husband and no use, but who knows what will turn up.

Regarding Glebe, I believe you are right about it being C of E. I did live there for about 8 years and dug into the background... then again if I cannot take 1835 from 1855 and get 20,...

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Australia / Re: George Nicholls
« on: Thursday 24 February 22 01:30 GMT (UK)  »
I am probably flogging a dead horse but here goes. I had two theories on Sarah Nicholls.

1. Theory one is that she was married before given she was 30 when she married William Pearsall and Nicholls was her married name. I checked her marriage record and she is a spinster. Does that mean she was never married? Not sure about the conventions of the time. There was a Sarah Street married a Thomas Nicholls in 1849 - 642/1849 - but found nothing more.

2 Second path was to try and trace any information on the witnesses. One was Mark Williams. There was a convict of that name who seems to have been in Port Macquarie where one George Nicholls spent some time, but Mark is much older than Sarah and William. He attained his ticket of leave in 1842. I thought he might have been a family friend of Sarah as she was born in 1835, but unclear when the families overlapped. George died in Sydney so must have returned at some point.
The second witness is Isaac but I cannot decipher his last name. Another question for the experts. Was it normal to have two witnesses who were male? Would they have been doing it as friends of the bride and groom, or in an official capacity?

As I said this is probably a blind ally but I thought I would throw it to the "brains trust" who have helped me so far.

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Australia / Re: George Nicholls
« on: Tuesday 22 February 22 07:32 GMT (UK)  »
As long as I am not left on the shelf.

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Australia / Re: George Nicholls
« on: Tuesday 22 February 22 06:38 GMT (UK)  »
Very odd. Maybe they think I am a library.

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Australia / Re: George Nicholls
« on: Tuesday 22 February 22 05:53 GMT (UK)  »
Very strange. Last year during Covid I believe Ancestry Library was made available to everyone online for free. I was told that prior to that it was freely available through libraries. I have never subscribed to Ancestry. I did create a trial login

I have had one or two issues over the month in hitting the login page but find if I go back a page and try again it works. I did have a login for Ancestry UK for a trial period but that was over a year ago.

Could I suggest you follow a link, and go back when you get to the login page and then try going forward again to see what happens.

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Australia / Re: George Nicholls
« on: Tuesday 22 February 22 05:18 GMT (UK)  »
Re George the postmaster, that adds another piece of information. The son George Robert was a lawyer and we thought it unlikely Sarah was related as she could not sign her name. We ruled him out in a previous post.

The marriage record at St. Marks church in 1855 gives no clue to her parents. She may well have been born overseas given there seems no trace of her in Australia. I have searched for free settlers with that name but had no success. She was 20 when married, so could have come out with her parents or with one if the other was a convict.

I don't have any birth certificates. I have a baptism record for Lily Phoebe which is no help. Would it give details of the mother's origin on a child's birth certificate? If so I will get one.

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Australia / Re: George Nicholls
« on: Tuesday 22 February 22 05:09 GMT (UK)  »
I am a little confused as to the reason for not including references in the posts. Ancestry Library is freely available online and while there are other sources available, my goal was to leave some preliminary research for someone to build on in the future.

I would have thought it would be better to leave more information than less. No sense reinventing the wheel. There are many hours of research to get to this point so why discard it? Am I not understanding something?

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