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Good evening Dave - boy were you busy after my post! :D RE: The Permission to marry for Charles Wiggins and Ellen (aka Eleanor) Slater. I got this via Ancestry. It's interesting - I have searched for a number of people from the same, scanned record on...

Re: SLATER family (the elusive Sarah Slater - later wife of OWEN FURNER) I THINK I MAY have found "our" Sarah Slater..... Was nosying around in different family trees and stumbled across this woman's tree https://www.ancestry.com.au/family-tree/person/tree/5422083/person/1248094529/facts and...

Hi there Not sure if you have since solved the mystery of how Erna fits into the Strother family? I have a distant cousin, Erna Chapman Lovely, who married a George Strother in 1937 in Perth. Erna was from Wooroloo and George was the son of Mr and Mrs W. Strother from Kalgoorlie...

Hi Dave, Just touching base re your CHarles Furner post earlier. I have just gone through the digital images of the passenger list for "William Metcalfe" in 1838 (http://srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/list.asp?series=NRS5316&item=4_4784&ship=William%20Metcalfe) and, despite what the newspaper...

AMAZING memory there Dave! Yes, Trixie. My mum's paternal grandmother :):D

Hi Dave, I suspect you're right re Sarah being originally from Southern England. I did find an interesting web post though listing various reasons why people might not find any records. We may never know. Re DNA - not sure if it's worth the money, but was interesting. We had a theory , based...

Hi Dave, Suspect you are correct re Sarah! A mystery! Mum had her DNA tested (via Ancestry) and was rather surprised to find out (apparently) she has 94% western european ancestry and 6% middle eastern ancestry. Thanks Timna

Hi - I joined a few years ago and hadn't been on for some time. Had changed email address also, so couldn't use same user id/login. Hoping to be a bit more active this time round! Live in Brisbane. Surnames of interest: LOVELY/CHAPMAN - London, Suffolk, Norfolk WHITEMAN/FURNER - Goulburn...

Hi - researching same elusive Sarah Slater. Have had same issues in trying to 'identify'. Left me wondering if she was possibly a "local" girl from Goulburn/Yass? Were there any penalties for not registering a birth in ca 1826 in colonial NSW? Perhaps she was of mixed parentage or from other...