Month: April 2017

Mary Plunkett – Continued

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In my last post https://blog.kyliesgenes.com/2017/04/mary-plunkett-read-carefully/, I wrote about my 2x great grandmother Mary Plunkett.  The passenger list that I found is breaking down the brick wall which was Mary.

Things I have found:

  • Mary’s siblings – Ann, Luke, James, Susan, Rose, Catherine, Christopher
  • Mary’s parents – Thomas Plunkett and Ann Daly
  • Family possibly from County Cavan, Ireland
  • James Plunkett married Ann Jeffcott and moved to Albury, New South Wales, Australia
  • Christopher Plunkett moved to Albury, New South Wales, Australia
  • Ann Plunkett married Edward Jeffcott in Albury, New South Wales and moved to Victoria, Australia
  • Mary’s two eldest sons James and Thomas Hayward spent time in Albury Gaol
  • Susan and Rose married and stayed in South Australia

It’s so much fun taking down this wall brick by brick.  It’s been a long time since I’ve had a breakthrough of this size in my own family tree.

Mary Plunkett – Read Carefully

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I recently started working on my own family tree again instead of just working on other peoples’.  I’ve set aside Tuesday nights for this purpose when I attend a local family history group.

I hadn’t got anywhere with researching Mary Plunkett, my 2x great grandmother, for a number of years.  I knew that she married George James Hayward in Adelaide, South Australia on 4 Sep 1849 but little else.

I looked at www.familyhistorysa.info, which I had checked before, but this time noticed in the list of children, of Thomas Plunkett, the letters M y.

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My is listed, on the site, as an abbreviation for Mary.  I had looked at this many times without seeing it.  I now have so much more to check to see if this is my Mary.  A pertinent reminder to myself to read everything carefully.