Hi Listers, I am continuing to search for the siblings of my GG grandmother, Mary Ann LYNCHEY/LYNCH, who arrived in 1835 aboard the MARY III with their convict mother , Sarah LYNCHEY. Because of the "stain of convictism" this convict connection may have been erased from the family memory. I know, from the indent of convicts on the MARY III, that they were a son and a daughter and were free but have no certain names however indirect details suggest that they were Sarah and James. The mother and one of their siblings. Thomas, were sentenced on the Isle of Man in 1833, all arrived in 1835 with Thomas on a separate vessel the Mary Ann. A Sarah and a James LYNCH entered the Female and the Male orphan Schools during September 1835 shortly after the arrival of the MARY III on 6th September. The daughter may have worked for a family DACRE on Kennington Farm at Hexham and married a Patrick AHEARN of Wollombi in 1847 and had at least 2 children born 1848 and 1854. My GG grandmother's family gradually changed her maiden name from LYNCHEY to LYNCH and while this was probably to hide their convict connection I have found that this also occurred in Northern Ireland and Eire where once there were many LYNCHEYS there are none in today's white pages, something that a County Down researcher has told me "just happened" over the later 19th and early 20th centuries. I would also like to find what happened to Thomas LYNCHEY after his Ticket of Leave in 1844 issued by the "Muswellbrook Bench". Cheers Peter Melbourne

I am researching the Lynch family from Weston and Kurri Kurri and am looking for other researchers with an interest in this family. Rosalee