Hi Listers, On 14/02/1847 at West Maitland Patrick AHERN of Wollombi married Sarah LYNCH (Ref:877 V95). They had at least 2 children. I am trying to establish whether this Sarah LYNCH was the lass who was working for Mrs. DACRE on Kennington Farm at Hexham in 1845. The lass working for Mrs. DACRE may have been the sister of my GG grandmother Mary Ann LYNCHEY and I have collected a considerable amount of information about her and her mistreatment by the system prior to her going to the DACRE farm. Mary Ann LYNCHEY accompanied her mother Sarah LYNCHEY to Australia on The Mary III arriving in Sydney in September 1835. A sister and a brother also accompanied the mother. The mother and a son had been sentenced on the Isle of Man; this son came on another vessel and was recommended for his Ticket of Leave by the Muswellbrook Bench in January 1844, nothing further has been found of him. That the sister's name may have been Sarah comes from a LYNCHEY Catholic Baptism on the Isle of Man in 1826; in 1847 this lass would have been 21. One of the documents that I have states that she had a mother (unnamed) living in Sydney. Sarah LYNCHEY was living in Sydney with Mary Ann until her death in 1860. As in Ireland, and no doubt in this case helped by the stain of convictism, the name LYNCHEY fairly quickly morphed into LYNCH. There are no LYNCHEYS in either Irish white pages today. Peter Melbourne
Hi Peter Do you know where Patrick Ahern was born, who his parents were and if he had any siblings? I have a Mary Ahern born 20 Aug 1817, Cork Ireland who married John Piper on 22 Dec 1846 at Bathurst. I know nothing about Mary other than she died in the Bathurst area of NSW. Her date of birth was given to me and I have not verified it. Mary and John had 10 children all born in the Bathurst area. It's a long shot but I thought I would ask. Roseanne __________________________________________________________________________________ Get more done like never before with Yahoo!7 Mail. Learn more: http://au.overview.mail.yahoo.com/