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« on: Sunday 12 January 14 00:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi Pollypatto,
Great to hear from you and a belated Happy New Year to you also! Sorry to take so long to reply but I am not getting much time on the computer due to the Christmas and great gardening weather. Thank you for your information. Yes, Alexander Patterson is George Patterson's father and George Junior's Grandfather.
This is my partners family, he is a great great grandson of Alexander & Jane's via George's younger brother William. I started this research to pen down a brief family history for both him and for his father, and used the original family history book as the basis for much of the research. Considering very little was available online back when it was written the authors did an amazing job.
I can not take all the credit for all the research as there has been input from many of the branches of your tree including; ancestors of Jane's sister and brother-in-law Isabella Ross and Archibald Simpson, the Anderson family- one of the families who arrived from Scotland with them on the Asia, the Brookes family in Sydney and Canada who are relations of William's wife Philadelphia Brookes, and not forgetting the Lyons & Hill family's.
Are you related to George senior and if so do you happen to know if part of land which is now Monarto Zoo may have been also owned by him ? I saw something about ruins of a barn in the zoo grounds having been built by a George Patterson, but I can't seem to find the reference again.
Kind regards
Joanofacre