Tracing Family Branches

Today's post contains more information I have found that I believe relates to my step 4th Great Grandfather (previous posts mentioning him can be found here , here and here ). From Daniel's Death registration transcription (see below) I learned that he had been in New South Wales for over 42 years.  This leads to an arrival date around 1834 and so I went off to see what I could find.  Ultimately I found a convict transported to Australia for seven years on board the ship Blenheim named Daniel Sugrue/Sugrie in 1834.  I do believe this is the Daniel I was looking for and will put forward what I have found that leads me to believe this below.  Now I may very well be wrong with this and if I am, know that I am always open to amending any errors. Unfortunately I sometimes do make mistakes even though I try very hard not to! Source: Transcription of the NSW Death Registration for Daniel Shoughron Index No. 6593/1876. Received from NSW Family History Transcriptions  ...

Well here I go writing this post for the second time after accidentally deleting it when it was almost finished and not being able to retrieve it as auto save had saved the deleted version 🤦‍♀️ On Thursday I received two transcriptions I had ordered from NSW Family History Trancriptions .  The first was the NSW BDM Marriage Registration for Daniel Sugrue and Ellen Pierce, alias Sullivan and the second was the NSW BDM Death Registration for Daniel Shoughron.  Ellen is my 4th Great Grandmother and Daniel was her second husband, making him my step 4th Great Grandfather.  Please note I have previously posted about them here and here . While I do personally prefer to have certified copies of certificates it is just not economically viable for me to get all of the certificates on my genealogy wish list this way. Therefore I have decided that for all non direct line relatives in New South Wales that I will order transcriptions in future.  I will also be ordering them for ...

Happy dancing as I have had a great night.  Three of our four grandchildren are sleeping over and we have had a lovely time with them as usual. They are all sound asleep now so I was doing some genealogy and knocked down one of my brick walls.  My 4th Great Grandmother Ellen didn’t die in Ireland as I had thought, she died in 1881 in Gundagai and Trove has the story.  DNA has already confirmed that My 3rd Great Grandfather John Pierse was the brother of Winifred Pierse who married William Carrigg, proving some researchers wrong!  My Great Great Grandmother Ellen Battye née Pierse actually got married at her Aunts house according to her marriage certificate so I knew some researchers were wrong when they claimed no relationship between Winifred and John! Ancestry ThruLines sent me to another tree that had Ellen marrying a Daniel Shoughron/Shoughran and dying in Gundagai in 1881 but had no sources or details.  I couldn’t find a death registration for her but a Tro...