Glenys, By any chance do you have a Martha ALLOWAY in England who married a James GILLER? Helen McNamara NZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenys Rasmussen" <glenealogist@gmail.com> To: <AUS-NSW@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:57 PM Subject: [AUS-NSW] John WILSON, Alloway, Gilgandra > Dear Barbara and MargM: Thanks for the heads up on the comma - when I > went > back and blew the article up I could see that darn thing! I was really > getting excited - my ALLOWAY line has been a brickwall in England for nigh > over 40 years and I was hoping this fellow might give me a break. None of > my other other OZ ALLOWAYs lead me back. Maybe a WILSON researcher will > see > the message and it will open new doors for them. > > Again, appreciate the help and speedy response. > > Glenys > > > > > -- > Glenys > www.quietacre.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-NSW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Some of those pages are so hard to read, even when they are blown up. Helen .. Are you checking on variations of the name? One of my branches from Ireland is Holloway, but also spelt as Halloway, Alloway, etc. In the days of all too common illiteracy, names were written as the listener heard it - add the complexities of different accents of both speaker and listener, and you could end up with anything. Unfortunately I can only go back as far as my g-g-grandfather who relocated from Ireland to Sheffield, from where all but one of his adult children promptly emmigrated to Australia. So can't give any help on your Alloways. Cheers Barbara