Cando and Merlin, Thank you so much for your work and I apologise for not responding sooner. I posted last night and had to call it quits as I had a 4.00am rise.
Thank you for finding my John. His parents were Frances Brown and Joseph Wells so you have helped immensely. Also, someone asked why I assumed that John's wife Sarah Ann Williams was born to convicts in Tassie. I was only suggesting that as I already have another family member who came to Geelong after 7 years as a convict in Tasmania, so it was only a maybe. Sarah's parents, according to her first marriage cert. to John Wells were John Williams and Janet Johnston, however by Sarah's second marriage after John died, her mother was listed as Jane Johnson.
Someone else on line also researched her family back to a John Williams and Janet Johnston from Tasmania, then Victoria, then NSW and finally back to Victoria. But she told me that there were two sets of families with parents John and Janet/Jane Williams (nee Johnston) and mine started in Tasmania where they married in around 1840. John Williams apparantly was born in Dublin and his wife Janet/Jane Johnston/Johnson was from Glasgow. Their first child was Sarah Ann born in about 1841, they then had James, Jane and John in Hobart and then came over to Geelong where they had 2 Charles', Alexander, George and Thomas. I am still tracking down proof of the children born in Geelong as I don't have all of their birth years yet (ie the last two). I do know that some of the children are buried in Geelong and I am still trying to track down what happened to John Williams and Janet/Jane.
I have found a death certificate for a Janet Williams born Johnston, however, this is the ancestor of the other lady on line and not mine. (VIC BDM 932)
So I am still looking for information on the Geelong John Williams and Janet/Jane, as their death certificates will help me fill in the blanks on that side.
Thanks again for your interest in my search,'
Leanne
