Category: Irving
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A: SARAH (MURRAY) CASSIDY
Sarah Murray, born about 1796, was an illiterate country servant from Monaghan Ireland whose husband, Cormic Cassidy, probably died about 1829. Sarah (Murray) Cassidy was convicted of a first offence, the theft of clothing on 24th October 1836 in Monaghan, Ireland and sentenced to seven years transportation. After sentencing, on the…
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WSR HAMBLY RETURNS TO THE USA IN 1876
WILLIAM SAMUEL RAWLINGS HAMBLY 31st March 1823 ~ 1st December 1898 WSR Hambly sailed from San Francisco on the 29th September 1853 on the “Destruzione”, a 238-ton Italian barque captained by a Genoese, Giacormo Gazzolo. The “Destruzione” with a crew of 13 carried 48 adult passengers & 6 children and sailed via Tahiti…
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IRVINGS TO AUSTRALIA
My paternal ancestry has always been a bit muddled, primarily because my father was never forthcoming about his own life and deflected any questions about his ancestors. My mother wasn’t much help either, saying that her mother-in-law was a rather strange woman who had migrated to Australia from England just…
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IRISH ANCESTORS IN BERRIMA
Two families, both from Ireland, both Protestant made their way to Berrima New South Wales decades prior to the celebrated gold rush in Australia. Both families were well respected, involved positively in developing their communities, produced very interesting characters and enjoyed a union of marriage between them. The first to…
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THE SIGN of the WINDMILL
This is the story of “The Sign of the Windmill” a pub in Lambeth that Roger’s ancestors were closely linked, about a block from the Thames and still operating today. In September 2016 we based the London part of our England/Scotland trip at The Vauxhall Suites, apartments across the Thames…
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THE FOX UNDER THE HILL
Rosemary Crook is another cousin of ours with a great Ancestry Tree “Lovesey Family Tree”. She is also a descendant from my 4th Great Grandparents, David Hambly and Mary Sandoe, through a Londoner, Thomas Lovesey who married Elizabeth Hambly (my 3rd Great Grandfather John Hambly’s older sister) in 1813. Thomas…
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WILLIAM SAMUEL RAWLING HAMBLY
William Samuel Rawling Hambly: born on 31st March 1823 in Kenwyn, just outside Truro in Cornwall; died 1stDecember in Ballarat, Victoria. “WSR” is Roger’s 2nd Great Grandfather. WSR the 2nd child of John Hambly and Mary Ann Rawling Trudgeon, born in Kenwyn, just outside Truro was like the most of his family a truly…
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CORNWALL TO BALLARAT
How did a mining captain’s son from Cornwall end up on the Ballarat gold fields of the 1850’s before importing boots from his brother-in-law’s factory in Devon? Thomas Edward Miles, born in 1809 was a Welsh blacksmith from Upper Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales; he married Ann Jones, born in 1814…
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