Chambers Family,Carlton,Le Moorland

[trish1120]

I really feel for you with the little you have to go on!
Hopefully with the Net you never know what may pop up in the future.
Miracles do happen.
Sorry I cant be of more help.

Trish

[gervaise]

Thanks for your optimism Trish.What makes this research harder is that Eliza Chamber's husband/partner James Dorman has no baptism in London that we can find and is not on the 1841 Census with a Robert Dorman who was sited as his father.We are lucky in Australia that death certificates have provision for parent's identities although they are not always known by the person giving the info.(as in Eliza's case).All we got off James's death certificate was he was born in London,his father was Robert Dorman,a gasfitter.I suspect Robert was born in Ireland as Robert and James are Celtic names and according to family folk lore we are Irish Aboriginal through the Chambers/Dorman line.
Thus we have the classic brick-wall.

[michelle27]

Hello, looks like I may also be looking for this same William. Have you found any more information on him or Mary?

[trish1120]

Welcome michelle27.

gervaise has not been on here for a few years but hopefully has the same email and will be notified of your reply

[michelle27]

Thank You

[JodiAileena]

Hi everyone,I just did a google search and came across this thread.  I'm a descendent of Eliza Chambers (she was my third great grandmother) and would love to know who her Indigenous mother was. Does anyone have any thoughts on how I might go about this?  Ancestry has nothing and there may very well be no information anywhere but I figure it's worth asking the question here? Thanks all :-)

[gervaise]

Hi Michelle27 and Jodi Aileena,

Sorry that I have not got back to you sooner but I have not used the email address linked with Roots Chat for some time.

Despite about 60 relatives of Eliza Chambers matching me at Ancestry dna I still can't confirm if the William Chambers mentioned here was my ancestor. The matches in common are set so high that I keep seeing only the fourth cousins I already know about or can place. A best estimate of Eliza's birth is 1835. Not only there were convicts in the district then but  farm labourers recruited from England working at the Stations.

If either of you wanted to dna test there are specials on at ftdna and Ancestry. There are at least 11 of us Chambers/Dorman at ftdna and the matches are set lower so I can see who 5-7th. cousin matches match through. It does not have the huge nos. tested like Ancestry but it is cheaper and I can easier see who distant matches  match through.

If you did test on Ancestry we could send each other an invitation to view the other person's matches. It is easier than asking did you match this or that person. Ancestry has upped security but I used to be able to sign in to relatives sites to check for myself if they gave me their user name and password. Ancestry does have a good new feature though - it splits matches into each parents side without testing the parents. Sometimes they can't tell and deem a match unassigned or both sides (that only happened to me once and my parents lived in totally different areas and had different surnames in their trees).

JodiA. - the only information I have re Eliza's mother is that there was an Eliza issued a blanket in that area around the time her daughter was born. If that were true there would have been an Eliza or Elizabeth in the direct line right down to my great aunt born in the 1900s. The tribe in the area was Ngunawal? I have an Ancestry match who has NSW Aboriginals in her tree but she has not got  back to me yet to tell me if any of my family match her and she seems too far back to be a match in common.

Let me know if you test so I can look out for you and tell you who are Chambers related.

Cheers, Linda Mackie

[JodiAileena]

Hi Linda, thank you so much for your response! I have done an Ancestry.com dna test and am 1% Indiginous (traced back to Eliza). Not sure how we share our trees but I’m on Ancestry as Jodi Aileena Starling if that helps?

[JodiAileena]

Linda does this help?

https://ancestry.com/family-tree/tools/tree/180659963/invitees/accept?inviteId=ea7e5958-3c71-4186-8e6e-cef3e6ee6f19