User:Dicole

G'day from Sydney Australia, the most beautiful city in the world.

16 of my ancestors chose to come and live here from 1838 to 1914. I have been researching them for over 9 years now, since I first discovered the NSW BDMs indexes on-line.

The families I am researching come from all over England, Scotland and Ireland (although I am having trouble with the Irish).

This is a basic list and if you have any of them in your family, I would love to swap info and stories.

Hurst, Berkshire - the """COLLIS""" family, papermakers and blacksmiths- Thomas, George, Edmund, Henry and their wives - ELizabeth Mary CHAPLIN, Mary GILBERT, Grace DREW, Sarah NASH, and their good friend Thomas BRENT. Also interested in the related families ABEAR, SOUNDY, LEWIS, TOWNSEND, REYNOLDS and WINGFIELD. The COLLIS family also has branches and twigs in Basingstoke and Sherfield upon Loddon and Winchester in Hampshire, Wantage, Wargrave, Waltham St Lawrence and Reading in Berkshire.

Brighton Sussex - the families MARTIN and BISHOP - Benjamin BISHOP was a bricklayer/brickmaker and married Sophia LYNN. Their youngest, the elegantly named Susan Eliza Louisa (b1841) was the youngest of their tribe of children and married Robert MARTIN (B1840) in 1859. His father is claimed (on his marr cert.) to be William MARTIN carpenter, but I can only find his widowed mother Elizabeth in the 1851 census. All of them claim to be born in Brighton/Brighthelmstone.

Graffham Woolavington Sussex - Charles, Charlotte and Thomas """"TUPPER""" were all baptised on 1 Mar 1807, no ages or parents recorded in the register. But I am led to believe they are the children of Thomas TUPPER and Ann POAT (who may have been a widow, because that is the only way I can make sense of her name). Charles married Eliza HARWOOD of the Sutton HARWOODS who were blacksmiths in that part of Sussex.

Rotherhithe, Surrey - George DAWSON was a sail maker, ship chandler and beer house keeper in Rotherhithe, lived in Paradise St. He married Sophia BRAZILL who was born in Great Yarmouth, into another Marine family - father Thomas was a bargebuilder. Thomas BRAZILL and his wife Mary (nee SMITH) migrated to NSW in 1838, but Thomas died within a month. George and Sophia stayed in Rotherhithe, but three of their children - Samuel, William and Laura, came to NSW. I don't think any of their other children, who stayed in Surrey, had any children.

Birmingham and Corley, Warwickshire - Reuben PAGE was a builder and so were all his sons. Reuben married twice and spent some time in New York, USA. He was born in 1809 in Shrophshire and married Mary.... about 1833 - they had three children Sarah born in Warwickshire, Thomas born in New York and Joseph, born back in Corley Warwickshire. Mary died after the 1841 census and in 1847, Reuben married Elizabeth NIGHTINGALE of Corley, in Birmingham. Elizabeths parents were Richard NIGHTINGALE and Susannah CHESLIN. Reuben and Elizabeth also had three children - Harriet born in 1847 (married her cousin Edwin CARVER), Reuben Edward (b1860 at York Town in Surrey) and Albert Henry born in 1867. I would love to know why Reuben and Mary did not stay in New York - if they had, I would not be here !!!

Martoock Somerset - James RODFORD and Jane WORNER brought their four daughters, Annie, MaryAnn, Sarah and Elizabeth to NSW in 1849, They settled in Morpeth in the Hunter Valley. Research has showed that James and Jane were actually second cousins once removed, as their grandmother and great-grandmother were sisters (20 years age difference). The WORNERS were a large family who moved all over England and Australia, seemingly the only family spelt WORNER who is not of German origin. Associated names - Feadon, Farmidge, Indoe, Squire, Glover.

This ends my dad's side, I will add photos and more later

Please contact me if you think you are related to any of my families.

Diane --Dicole 20:47, 1 January 2008 (UTC)