James KANNANE - South Australia

[ROACH-HOOD]

Hi Kris

We had a look at the passenger list for the OMEGA and found Jane Roach and her brothers thanks.  The brothers were James, Thomas & Patrick - I couldn't see where you got two Thomases?

And with Ellen Gertrude dying unmarried thanks for confirming that, we thought it was the case

Now then the Hallidays, we have an Eliza Halliday who arrived with her husband Job Baker in 1838 per EDEN, they came from Stroud, Gloucestershire.  Just wondering if a brother of Eliza also came out to SA.  Noticed on Barry Leadbeater's passenger lists that a number of Hallidays came out and one that caught the eye was a Debney family which included a J Halliday.  Now a James Halliday married a daughter of this family Hepzabah Debney.  Reason we are trying to connect is that Eleanor Johnstone (Halliday) claimed to be a relation of James Kannane. 

Is it possible to trace back from Eleanor's father, James Halliday, to see if there is a connection?

We are just fishing here and even if Eleanor turns out to be descended from a brother of Eliza then the relationship is very tenuous eh!  Perhaps it was another kind of relationship

Thanks SASHAR for your info also.  It throws up a question, you list four female children to Patrick Kinnane & Jane Roach but only two show up on the list that MERLIN sent.  Is it just that BISA has it wrong do you think?

Thanks

Helen & Bob

Hi Helen & Bob,  Jane Roach was the sister of my great grandfather James Roach. Along with brothers Patrick and Thomas they arrived in Adelaide on board the Omega in 1857. As you know Jane married Patrick Kinnane/Kannane. They are buried together in Eastern Catholic Section of the West Terrace Cemetery in Adelaide. James Roach married Catherine Lyons; their son James was my grandfather. My grandfather married Emma Alice Hood in 1891. They had four children, Alfred James (my father), John Stanley, Thomas William and Minnie May Roach. As far as I can ascertain Jane Roach's brother Patrick moved to Burra and married and had a family there, but Thomas remained unmarried till his death and is buried with his mother Bridget in Eastern Catholic Section of West Terrace Cemetery. I am yet to establish the father's name.
Regards, Alex Roach.

 

[Rochdalian]

Hi Alex
Just came across your post.  I thought this thread had died but you have now brought it to life and I will now re-read it and see where to go from here.
Do you have any birth marriage and death dates, or anything for that matter, for Jane and her brothers.  On Jane's marriage to Patrick Kinnane in 1860 her father is named as John Roach. 

Cheers

Bob & Helen

[janeduck]

HI there everyone

I am on ancestry.com.au DUCKWORTH FAMILY TREE
Trying to find Jane, James, Thomas and Patrick Roach's parents. The siblings arrived in 1857 on the "Omega". John Roach is their father.

Is Alex Roach who wrote some of the above posts still active? He says that Thomas is buried with his mother Bridget in West Terrace Cemetery. When did she arrive in Australia? What was her surname?
Any ideas ROACH descendants.