Tracing Family Branches

Today's snippet is about Elijah Guymer Haylock who is my first cousin five times removed.  Elijah was born c.1832 at Great Thurlow, Suffolk, England the son of John Haylock and his wife Ann nee Guymer.  Ann's brother David is my 4th Great Grandfather.  In 1851 Elijah departed England for Australia, arriving at Port Adelaide, South Australia on the 26th May 1851 on board the ship Catherine .  His parents, siblings, Uncle Robert Guymer and his family arrived in Adelaide on board the Omega in 1852.                       Source: Advertising (1852, November 6). Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), p. 5. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article160111099 Transcript: ELIJAH GOYMER HAYLOCK, per ship Catherine , in July 1851.-Any person forwarding address of the above to Hunt's Labour-office, Adelaide, will oblige his father and mother, lately arrived from England.

Well it has been some time since my last post as life has been rather hectic of late and my research has taken a back seat as a result.  Today I would like to acknowledge the lives of Robert Guymer and his wife Susan (nee Raison) who are my 5 x Great Grandparents.  I am descended from them through their son David but as a result of my research I have also found out that mine is not the only extended family connection to them.  My son in law is also one of their direct descendants through another of their children, namely their son Robert.  Thus making them my Grandchildren's 7 x Great Grandparents through my family line and also their 6 x Great Grandparents through my son in laws family line.  I found the family connection when I started tracing my son in laws trees, not suspecting that there would be any crossovers, but I have found over time that Australian trees can be more tangled than people expect and that you can be distantly related to people you know an...