Please help? RANSOM Thomas 1820: MCNALLY Catharine; AMOS T: STIEGLITZ

[Wiggy]

You are a very patient woman!!  I will try again!

Wiggy           

[Wiggy]

ah ha!  Now I have it - I have seen this record before (my trouble is, I never know how to return to things I have stumbled upon!)  I don't think this is our Thomas - but it may well be the other man!    Or is this ours and  . . .  no I'm not going there      - ours was happily living in Tasmania with his Joiner's Arms Inn by that date -

Confusing - that's what it is!

Continued thanks for all the help!   

[regross]

Wiggy some thing from rootsweb maling list archives

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search

search for thomas ransom 19 results 4 of interest.

if you are one of the sumitters in the discussion of Thomas Ransom of Fingal then you will have this, if not a some possible leads

RObyn

[Wiggy]

Thanks again Robyn   - - - -       Yes that is definitely the family - the next generation from the Thomas I'm looking for.   
The Thomas in that lot is the Thomas McNally mentioned in Thomas senior's will.  Will have to find when he changed his name to Ransom(e)!   

Wiggy

[Wiggy]

Feel I am making progress with Thomas - thanks to much help -

 now for Catharine Christiana McNally!!!   There's a problem 

[trish1120]

Hi Wiggy,

I have been following this with interest. You are so lucky to have Robyn helping you.
Best of luck,
Trish

[Wiggy]

I am, and she certainly is a great help - but then so were you   .   

Wiggy

[Wiggy]

Sorry - wrong post!   Been to the right place now!

Wiggy

[Wiggy]

OK - so I've been to Tasmania, and Thomas  (1820) is definitely the son of Catharine and probably of Thomas Snr., though father is not named on church register of christening.   The same Thomas Snr definitely died at age 86 so he had this daughter (Anne) and son when quite old.  Thomas Jnr does not have name change from McNally to Ransom  registered - but that was not unusual apparently.     Tasmania can only find record of one Thomas Ransom coming there - the other apparently stayed on Mainland somewhere.

Still trying to get a fix on Catharine Christiana McNally - who seems to have been known as Christina most of the time - cannot find any new records of her in Tasmanian libraries even with librarian's help - nothing in arrivals - of any description, nothing in convict musters, nothing even on lists of people drawing provisions or supplying provisions.  (Gee didn't they loved making lists of EVERYTHING)  Also looked at Norfolk Island lists - nothing.  Have put another post up on Common Room  board - see if there is anyone with info.  Only definite is her motherhood, marriage in 1830 and death in 1857  - and her gravestone to prove it!

Wiggy