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Coverley Family & Bidgood Badgood Family (PL)
Richard Coverly (1755 – 1796) & Elizabeth Burton (1761 -).”In My Shoes.”
Maria Coverly (1792 – 1864) & William Bidgood (Badgood)
The Dean Family (ML)
William Dean (1775 – 1823 ) & Elizabeth Howard (@1775 – 1823)
James Dean (1795 – 1872) & Ann Edser (1799 – 1831)
The Donovan Family (ML)
The Duffy Family (ML)
Duffy – An Irish Princess Tale
The Fowles Family (ML)
William Fowles (1775-1842) & Mary Anne ‘Unknown’ (@1775-1842. Broad Green, Croydon, Surrey, England
William Fowles (1805-1858) & Mary Ann Gatton (1805-1876). The Regency Years
William Fowles (1826-1907) & Hannah Ann Dean (1823-1908) The Gold-Rush Pioneers.
John George Fowles (1858 – 1903) & Lily Mary Lorkin (1963 – 1937). Ferndale Pioneers.
Pioneering in Ferndale – a transcript of the handwritten memoirs of Jack Fowles – Eldest son of Lily Mary Lorkin & John George Fowles
The Gay Family (PL)
Paternal line – Captain. William Gay (1820 – 1880) and Eliza Brereton Howard (1815 – 1902) The Pirate
Paternal line – Captain, John Gay (1796 – @1837) and Cordelia Bristow (1794 – 1877) – Merchants in Brazil.
The Hancock Family (PL)
Walter Hancock (1833 – 1871) and Louisa Hall (1833 -1887) (Callan) – London brickmaker to Hawke’s Bay pioneers.
The Hay Family (PL)
Lewis Hay & Margaret Watson, Tomintoul, Parish of Kirkmichael, Banffshire.
James Hay (1736 – unknown) and Anne/Ann Riach (1741 – unknown) – Scottish Highlanders – Children in the Second Jacobite Uprising.
Robert Hay (1774 – 1839) and Maria Hopper Hazlewood (1795 – 1880) – Sullivan’s Bay Convict, Hobart Town First Settlers, and Norfolk Islander
John Hay (1816 – 1887) and Sophia Morgan (1816-1889) Cascades Female Factory
The Helmrich Family (PL)
Charles Hellmrech/Hellmrich @1778 – 1817. and Elspit Simmers (@1775 – 1862, The German and the Scot. (Nineteenth Century).
John Hellmrich (1812-1870) and Margaret Mathieson (1815-1898) – The Scottish Stonemason.
Alexander Burnett Hellmrich (1850-1906) and Florence MacGill Glendinning Gay (1854-1927) And the Captain’s daughter,
Arthur Edward (Dick) Helmrich (1888 – 1953) and Priscilla London, Helmrich Vesperman (1891 – 1972)
Neva Irene Helmrich – (1918 – 1983) Last boats out of Singapore
The Howard Family (PL)
William Dean and Elizabeth Howard
The Kingshott Family (PL)
Thomas Kingshott (1722 -) and Ann Bayly (1722 – 1753)
Francis Kingshott (1770 – 1807) and Lydia Morford (1776 – 1845)
John Kingshott (1792- 1866) and Mary Robinson – Machine Breaker –
Francis Kingshott (1831-1900) and Mary Ann White (1834 – 1911) – convicts children to settlers.
John William Kingshott (1857-1923) and Hannah (Annie) Oakley (1855-1923
The Larkin & Lorkin Family (ML)
Michael Larkin (b. abt 1799 – ) & Mary Cantwell (b. abt 1800 – d. 1845). Natives of Ferbane. Kilcolgan More near Ferbane, King’s County, (now Offaly), Ireland.
John Thomas Larkin, Larkins, Lorkin (1828 -1894). & Mary Donovan (abt. 1838 – 1915). Irish pioneers to Australia.
The London Family (PL)
Patrick John London – (1770 – 1810) & Sarah (1780 -1818). New South Wales Corps & Irish Rebel Defenders.
William Albert London – (1809 – 1877) ” Bill the Native ” and Diana Riley (1824 – 1905)
William John London (1846 – 1932) and Matilda Ann Mitchell (1850 – 1918) – A fine orchard
The Mitchell Family (PL)
Paternal Line – Edward Mitchell (1798 – 1859) and Elizabeth Coverley 1815 – 1879. Kurrajong Pioneers.
The Mohan Family (ML)
James Mohan & Alice Walsh
James Mohan (1848 -1898) & Bridget Duffy (1850 -)
The Moss Family (ML)
Richard Moss (Abt. 1775) & Sarah Stated (Abt. 1777) Lancashire, England. Weavers in Manchester, Lancashire?
Thomas Moss (1802 – 1860) & Mary Anne Ellis (1805 – 1857) Assisted Bounty Immigrants to the Australian colonies.
John Moss (1842 – 1903) & Sarah Ann Varcoe (1844 – 1922). First generation Melbourne son and the Methodist family connections.
John Henry Moss (1874-1943) and Mary Alice Mohan Moss (1872 – 1939).
The Nairn Family (PL)
Susannah Nairn (18 March 1762 – 24 March 1814) The Fourth Fleeter
The Oakley Family (PL)
Edward Oakley (around 1795-1842) and Hannah Haden (around 1792 -1831 – A lad ought not go down into the pit..
John Oakley (1823 – 1904 ) and Mary Ann White (around 1826 – 1909) – From the Coal Mines and Kilrush Irish Workhouse, A Beulah girl.
The Riach Family (PL)
John Riach (1711-1765)& Janet Stuart – ( )The last Jacobite Uprising
The Riley Family (PL)
John Riley ( 1792 – 1854) and Catherine Lattimore (@1798 – 1868) – Free-born and convict to pioneers of the Kurrajong
The Shirley Family (PL)
Thomas Shearly, Sherly, Sharley & Cherry/Charity Falkiner (1753 – ). Richmond, Hampshire, England
William Sharley (Abt. 1772 – 1851) & Anna Crouch. (Abt 1780 – 1842). Horsington, Somerset, England
Thomas Sharley, Shurley, Shirley (1800- 1886) and Ann Hallet (1800 – 1887), Petone, New Zealand Pioneers.
The Varcoe Family (ML)
Richard Varcoe (Abt. 1806 – 1878) and Mary Ann Gill (Abt 1807 – 1871
The Whitehead Family (PL)
William Whitehead (Whytehead) – (Abt. 1747-1812) and Mary Bassenden
Stephen Whitehead (1772 -1852) and Susanna Cook (1771 – 1852) – Kent, England.
James Stephen Whitehead (1796 -1838) and Ann Maria Stone (1803 – 1879) Kent, England to New Zealand and the Prebble connection. “Canterbury Pilgrims”.
James Stephen Whitehead (1832 – 1879?) and Sophia Shirley (1835 – 1905) Pioneers and Founders of the NZ Whitehead’s.
John William Whitehead 1856-1940 and Louisa Jane Hancock 1864 – 1937 The Kiwis
Ernest William Whitehead (1886-1935) and Edith Mary Kingshott (1887-1955) – New Zealand to Australia
Ernest Kingshott Whitehead (1909 – 1987)
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