GeneaBloggers

Have picked up a few followers since my last post.......very exciting...........also check out geneabloggers.com

It's almost Christmas

Just wondering how our ancesters may have celebrated the silly season, if at all? May be worth a bit of research............

Harriet Wheatley

Harriet aged 17, arrived on the 'Strathfieldsay' to Hobart from Gravesend 15 August 1834, accompanied by Caroline Wheatley 30 and Frances Wheatley 27. They were all governesses.

Stuff........

Sitting here, home for lunch, we've just had an all too brief spring storm after several days of summer heat.............temp is supposed to drop but could do with lots more rain..........

On the family history front, we spent last weekend in Tasmania, stayed in Hobart at the Grand Chancellor, not far from where Peter Appleyard and later Harriet Wheatley would have come ashore.............he as a convict in 1834 and Harriet with members of her family.

Carrie (Sharrock) and Betty Saunders

Sunday Again...............

Here it is, Sunday................a bit of housework (not too much), some gardening and then on to the family history research..............and later catching up with some good friends for a few 'moving house drinkies'..........

Sunday in Ballarat is by the way, very warm............just lovely and more to come according to the weather man.

Apart from continuing work on our Saunders family................this week I've ordered the birth and death certificates for Ernest William Dennis, son of Ernest James and Lucinda (Bird) Dennis, also stumbled across a grave photo of Dorothy Lyla Dennis, daughter of EJ and Lucinda! I remember my father telling me that he had seen a photo of Dorothy's grave. She died in 1919 suposdly from TB. Have ordered the photo.

Lastly have finally got to sending for the updated DVD for Ian Marr's Cemeteries of South West Victoria.

Saunders Reunion etc.......

It's been a while...............have just come back from a weekend away at Bridgewater Bay near Portland.......great spot...............the weekend before we were in Port Fairy catching up with some Saunders rellies.........the Nicholas Saunders reunion site has some great family pics................

Cemetery Photos Site

Check out the Cemetery Pics site, photographs of headstones are available (free of charge) from a selection of South Australian, Victorian and New South Wales cemeteries.

Saunders Reunion

The Saunders Reunion is planned for September 2010...................at the moment we are busy collating family history and trying to contact as many descendants of Nicholas Saunders and Elizabeth Tytherleigh as possible.
There are plans to place a commemorative plaque on the Immigration Wall on the Portland waterfront, along with a day tour to Condah.

Photo - Harry Denyer Saunders

More on William Henry (Harry) Saunders

Since my last post, I have had the wonderful good fortune to make contact (through 'Ancestry') with an avid family historian with links to Harry's wife, Amelia!!
Michael has supplied our Saunders family with lots of information............many thanks Michael!!

William Henry (Harry) Saunders

My WH Saunders, or Harry as he was known, was born in Branxholme VIC in April 1865. His parents were Nicholas & Elizabeth (Tytherleigh) Saunders. At some time, and we really don't know when, Harry moved to Queensland where, in 1907, he married Amelia May King. They were married at Wooroorooka QLD. He was 42 and Amelia was 21. Harry was in QLD in 1903 where he appears on the electrol roll at Wooroorooka.

Their children were Susan born 1908 Wooroorooka, George 1910 Thargominda, William 1911 Thargomindah, Ruby 1914 Rubyvale Station, Norma 1917 Charleville, Mona 1919 Charleville, Alma 1921 Charleville and Douglas 1925.

Update on Dennis Twigs

Following on with Rebecca Dennis, her two children sadly died within days of each other in January 1852 - William was 4 and Mary 2. Rebecca had passed away the year before in July, as did her mother Charlotte, a very sad time for the Dennis family. It would be very interesting to find out the cause of death of all four. John Gibson had remarried on 31 December 1851, 6 months after Rebecca had died. His new bride was 20 years old when they married, presumably William and Mary lived with them until their untimely deaths a few short weeks later.

John & Hannah went on to have 8 children, 2 of whom died in infancy.

Dennis Twigs

Have spent some time over the last few days searching through the English census for the family of Rebecca Dennis, daughter of Richard & Charlotte (Perrin). Rebecca was born around 1821 in Bardney Lincolnshire and married John Jeremiah Gibson in 1848, also in Bardney. They had 2 children, William Henry born 1848 and Mary Ann born 1850, both born and baptised in Bardney. The family were living in Bardney at the time of the 1851 census.....

The Dennis Story......so far.....

If you would like to read about my Dennis ancestors, please go the Ballarat Genealogy link on my list of Ab Fab Sites and search for Dennis................the last time I checked the website, there was a link to the story on the front page................

Saunders

Well, what a day! Weather has returned to winter and the Saints lost the footy!! Just as well I have the family history to play with.....................
Have been doing some work on the Saunders family..................there will be a Saunders reunion in September 2010.................plans are afoot to celebrate the arrival of Nicholas Saunders (1818-1898) in Portland Victoria Australia in January 1857. Nicholas hailed from Cornwall. He married Elizabeth Tytherleigh in Portland in 1860. More details later...............

Have been trying various things to make the blog look a bit more presentable, also put some more Sharrock data on the genesreunited site...............

My first Blog............mmmmm.......have no idea what I'm doing or supposed to do............ummm...
The main purpose of this Blog site is to add another dimension to my family history research.

I have been researching my family tree for over 20 years. Not only would I like to further my research but also to share that research with others with similar interests.

Family names include......

• Dennis - Bardney LIN & LON ENG>VIC AUST - 1730+
• Appleyard - YKS ENG>Gippsland VIC AUST - 1760+
• Sharrock - NTH ENG>VIC & WA AUST - 1670's+
• Saunders - CON ENG>VIC AUST - 1800's+
• Dyson - YKS ENG>VIC AUST - 1800'S+
• Pettingill - Fritton SFK ENG>VIC AUST - 1756+
• Denyer - Brighton SSX ENG>NZ>VIC AUST - 1800+
• Binstead - SSX ENG>VIC AUST - 1700's+
• Scott - Bradford WILT ENG>Alberton VIC AUST - 1858
• Tettersell - Brighton SSX ENG - 1806
• Higgins - SOM ENG>VIC AUST - 1695+
• Billings/Billinge - LON ENG>VIC AUST - 1826
• Wheatley - LON ENG>Hobart TAS AUST - 1757+
• Lardent - LON ENG - 1725+
• Tytherleigh - DEV ENG - 1600's+
• Porter - LEI ENG>VIC AUST - 1784+
• Bemrose - LIN ENG - 1790+
• Keable - NFK ENG - 1817+