Tuesday 21 February 2017
What is: The Ryerson Index
The Ryerson Index to death notices and obituaries in Australian newspapers is pretty much what it says on the tin. It was started in 1998 by members of the Sydney Dead Persons Association so it is most complete for the Sydney and NSW papers, but they have volunteers working in other regions too.
This index will give you full name (as shown in the newspaper), age, date, type of notice, newspaper name and date, and other details which may include the location of death and/or where the person was from. It doesn't include the name of the person who inserted the notice or other family names so you'll need to go to the original notice for that.
Monday 20 February 2017
Death of Alderman Davis.
Monday 30 January 2017
Fun with census records
I love the English census records, except when I don't. :-)
Here are a couple of ways the census data can muck you about:
Here are a couple of ways the census data can muck you about:
Monday 23 January 2017
John Suffolk, the case of the man who didn't age
John Suffolk died on the 18th of November 1852 'aged 65' from natural causes related to intemperance, which would make his year of birth somewhere around 1787. (1) But was he actually 69? John Suffolk was illiterate and seems to have lost track of time for the period between his conviction and his marriage in Australia to fellow convict Elizabeth Cockshall.
Tuesday 10 January 2017
Joseph Suffolk - Richard Reynolds 1836
Joseph Suffolk arrived in Port Jackson on the 1st of March 1836. He and his wife Jane were unassisted immigrants (posh, compared to all the assisted immigrants and criminals in my family tree) travelling in steerage (less posh) of a barque laden with merchandise and one other passenger.
Podcast: It's About Time
Ancestry.com has commissioned a genealogy podcast narrated by the very marvellous Sir Tony Robinson, available free on iTunes and Google Play. It's About Time is a combination of anecdotes about people and specials on particular things in genealogy (e.g. DNA research). It's a little heavy on the Ancestry advertising, which shouldn't be a major surprise, but the podcasts I've listened to so far are quite interesting AND it's Tony-freaking-Robinson who could make a shopping list sound like the most interesting thing in the world.
Episode 5: A Story of Identity revealed that Peter and I are both genetically much more British than the average resident of England. (I'm spot on for the average English native at 60%.)
Episode 5: A Story of Identity revealed that Peter and I are both genetically much more British than the average resident of England. (I'm spot on for the average English native at 60%.)
Saturday 7 January 2017
John Suffolk and Elizabeth Cockshall, convicts
John Suffolk was convicted at the Berkshire Assizes (Abingdon, Berkshire) in July 1818 for receiving stolen goods and transported for 14 years via the Lord Sidmouth following a sojourn on the prison hulk Justicia from the 20th July to about the 25th of August 1818.
On the 15th of May 1821 John married Elizabeth Cockshall, a needlewoman who had been transported for 14 years on the Morley(3), at St. John's church Parramatta. John was 35 and Elizabeth was recorded as 21 but may have been a little younger.
On the 15th of May 1821 John married Elizabeth Cockshall, a needlewoman who had been transported for 14 years on the Morley(3), at St. John's church Parramatta. John was 35 and Elizabeth was recorded as 21 but may have been a little younger.
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