Thanks Robyn. Very wise advice. (But I still 'know' that none of mine will ever be of that class! ha ha). Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robyn Horan" <[email protected]> > You never know about the working class/landed gentry thing. I've seen a > few > who "fell from grace" and lived their lives very differently once they > came > to Australia. I have one whose father was a physician with very good > connections and credentials. His sponsor at university was George > Washington's physician, but my man went from being a pillar of society to > a > disgraced smuggler in one fell swoop. The son ended up as a stockman on a > farm out in western NSW.

Good evening Listers, I must correct something I wrote in my previous Email, in error I wrote that I did not want to find out anything about the PRICE family who were the guardians of Jane and John KING, when it fact the word was meant to be NOW I want and not NOT. So if any one can shed any light on the PRICE family I would very much appreciate it. Also, I think I have now found the correct Mary PLUNKETT the future wife of Thomas KING arriving in the Colony. She arrived as a 16 year old, with her 24 year old brother James and his wife 21 year old Rose PLUNKETT (nee McGuffern). The family arrived on the Bounty Immigration ship the "Runnymede" in 1841. The family were from Swadling Bar, Innarly Carvan, Ireland. James and his wife Rose settled in the Newcastle or Patrick Plains districts, they had 7 children, the youngest Bernard's birth was registered in Raymond Terrace. The first two children Mary born 1842 and Thomas born 1844, where named, I believe after James' sister Mary and her husband Thomas King. I now am on the hunt for more details on the family of James and Rose PLUNKETT. The first thing I have to find is when did the "Runnymede" arrive in 1841, as Thomas KING and Mary PLUNKETT married on 17th May 1841. Even though the marriage is in the Register as St Marys R.C. church in Sydney, they could have been married anywhere, as at this time there were galloping priests as well as the Rev. Thomas Hassall, the galloping parson. Regards, Janice ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [HV] Plunkett > Thanks Robyn. > Very wise advice. > (But I still 'know' that none of mine will ever be of that class! ha ha). > > Ray > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robyn Horan" <[email protected]> > >> You never know about the working class/landed gentry thing. I've seen a >> few >> who "fell from grace" and lived their lives very differently once they >> came >> to Australia. I have one whose father was a physician with very good >> connections and credentials. His sponsor at university was George >> Washington's physician, but my man went from being a pillar of society to >> a >> disgraced smuggler in one fell swoop. The son ended up as a stockman on a >> farm out in western NSW. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Janice: On the NSW State Records site, the closest that I could get, was that the Runnymede arrived between APRIL and October 1841. (found at this link: http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/guides-and-finding-aids/nrs-lists/nrs-5316/?searchterm=runnymede ) Still hoping for you that another lister might know the exact arrival date for you. But it would seem that they were very quickly off the mark! ha ha. ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice Doughty" <[email protected]> ... The first thing I have to find is when did the "Runnymede" arrive in 1841, > as Thomas KING and Mary PLUNKETT married on 17th May 1841. ...