Can anyone tell anything about this name Marge [email protected] Perth Western Australia see my Family Names at http://www.wags.org.au/mid/8134.htm I do not accept emails with attachments from anyone without prior knowledge . ______________________________

HI there, Your surname wouldn't be WEISS by any chance? Cheers Sandra

Hi Sandra The writing on the certificate looks more like wirfs or wirps but I was told that the old style writing for 'ss' sometime looked like a 'p'. I do have Weiss in the USA family but that was long after this lady was deceased in Australia. Marge [email protected] Perth Western Australia see my Family Names at http://www.wags.org.au/mid/8134.htm I do not accept emails with attachments from anyone without prior knowledge . HI there, Your surname wouldn't be WEISS by any chance? Cheers Sandra

Hi Marge Could WIRSS be a miss spelling of WIRTH? Do you have more information about the person you are searching for, that listers might check their individual records. Regards Mark Lehmann ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 1:19 AM Subject: [AUS-GERMAN] Surname mystery - WIRSS > Can anyone tell anything about this name > > Marge > [email protected] > Perth Western Australia > see my Family Names at http://www.wags.org.au/mid/8134.htm > I do not accept emails with attachments from anyone without prior knowledge > . > ______________________________ > > > ==== AUS-GERMAN Mailing List ==== > For your Aus-German resources go to > http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~ainslee_hooper/germlinks.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

My ggg grandmother, Elizabeth or Eliza THATCHER lived with and had several children to a Henry STARR from 1867 to 1883 in and around the Bourke & Nyngan NSW area. She used both names in the registration of the children, guess it depended who was filling out the forms. In 1883 she married him and used the surname WIRSS and stated she was a widow. I am trying to establish whether this was genuine or just a name she picked out of the air. I have not been able to find her arrival in Australia or the birth of my gg grandfather, Henry Thomas Starr, supposedly about 1864 around Nyngan NSW. I have placed her in Bath, Somerset, England in the 1851 census with the correct birth of 1842 and parents (these details came from the marriage certificate). I would greatly appreciate any advice on where do I go next as I do not have a lot of access to NSW records. Marge [email protected] Perth Western Australia see my Family Names at http://www.wags.org.au/mid/8134.htm I do not accept emails with attachments from anyone without prior knowledge . Hi Marge Could WIRSS be a miss spelling of WIRTH? Do you have more information about the person you are searching for, that listers might check their individual records. Regards Mark Lehmann > Can anyone tell anything about this name