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Post by sherri on Jul 6, 2017 0:20:14 GMT
That you can date an ancestor to your present country, that is.
As you're probably all sick of hearing  , I'm working on a photobook to write up dad's story, but I got side tracked with a bit of family history, which I thought would be interesting to throw in the book, too. My first ancestors to set foot on Australian soil arrived in Hobart Town on 4th November 1842. They were free settlers, surname Pound.
They already had 3 children and a fourth(Elizabeth Pound) was born in June 1843, making her my very first Australian born ancestor.
So.. does anyone else know who was the first of their ancestors into their country? (going to be a hard one for Granty though, maybe  )
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Post by joethenuts on Jul 6, 2017 1:08:05 GMT
i tryed to look up my family tree many years ago, and was shocked , i am 1 of 3 children , but it said i had a sister called aurora, i said to my mum who the hell is aurora. she told me it is my sister mary . when mary was born in italy , it was against the law to name a child the same as a mother or what ever , so when my parents registered her name they just changed it to aurora but mary has been her name from day 1. and i was 40 years old when i found out.and it made sence. about 30 years ago i was working at a place and it was school holidays and the boss had some of his cousins and so working there. one day i needed some help and yelled out [mario] and 4 people answered, so i yelled out [mario cassa] and 3 people answered , so i said dont worry about it. i once knew a family living in a home with 3 people with the same name. i got no idea who got to open up the mail.
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Post by sherri on Jul 6, 2017 7:05:44 GMT
Ah, so you would be able to put an exact date on the arrival in Australia too.
What I have found is a lot of people in the past were also known by their second names.
My mother's mum-I am not sure if she was Gracia Mary or Mary Gracia. But she was always known as Gracie.
Her husband was John. My mother only knew that her dad's name was John Leon.
It took me many years to trace his background and I found on his birth certificate he was Leonard John, but no one in his family ever called him anything but John!
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Post by lola on Jul 6, 2017 13:43:43 GMT
As far as I know, my grandfather came to Australia about 1928, to Innisfail, as a sugar cain cutter.
So that's the earliest I can date an ancestor in the Land of Oz.
Hubby had his grandfather come to Melbourne, and then the Yarra Ranges, working on the O'Shannesy Dam, from 1918 or so.
So it's almost 100 years for hubby and I that have had our own ancestors come to this country. Wow, when I think of it like that, makes me feel ancient.
Some of my ancestors (in fact many) went to America, and that could have started at anytime in the early century before the 1st WW.
Now with the DNA I have submitted, on Ancestry, I am totally amazed at how many 3rd to 8th cousins I have in the USA!
And I am in contact with some of them via the Ancestry site, and one has invited me to go to Texas to meet up and welcomed to stay with them.
I offered the same hospitality back, that if they wish to come to Melbourne, we would pick them up from Tullamarine.
I was so happy last year to have been able to connect with long lost rellies in California, being my mum's first cousins, and they knew very little about Italy, so I told them a lot of stories that my mother had told me.
They were fascinated.
As a result, one of mum's cousin and his wife and their adult children, went to Italy to meet their long lost relations, and to see where their father had been born before he immigrated to the US at age 18 or so.
I was sent photos of them having dinner around the table, the Italian relatives with the USA relatives, all this was possible because me, the little aussie gal, gave all the contact details for it to happen.
A triangle of connection I call it, between USA,Italy, and Australia.
A lot of the USA relatives know their own grandparents etc came from Italy, but non knew they had a cousin in Australia, and are always ever so surprised when they find out.
I guess it was unusual, but why my grandfather chose Australia, who knows....maybe he liked the beer, or the wide open spaces, and the beer!
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Post by granty on Jul 7, 2017 20:23:53 GMT
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Post by sherri on Jul 7, 2017 21:27:40 GMT
That's great, granty. That was in 1789 so your family history in Britain goes back a long way.
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Post by DADDY O on Jul 9, 2017 0:05:04 GMT
I can trace everyone's roots back to Adam & Eve. What an incestuous group we are.
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Post by sherri on Jul 9, 2017 2:22:18 GMT
Yes, but have you got the documentation and certificates to prove it, that's the thing. 
Seriously though, when did some of your rellies end up going to USA, do you know any of their stories or where they were originally from?
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, I'm working on a photobook to write up dad's story, but I got side tracked with a bit of family history, which I thought would be interesting to throw in the book, too.
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