Hi List I'm looking for Roslyn BICHER (nee COOMBES) who posted this entry on a Dorset surnames website. Her email address is no longer valid. The majority of these people are from the NSW North Coast area (including my shared GGGrandparents Bernard O'DOHERTY & Sarah CARNEY). I would love to get in contact and swap research notes. "Researcher: roslyn bicher I am the g g grandaughter of Philip Coombes and Susannah Snook who sailed to Australia on the ship Victoria, Sept 1849,(Philip was a bricklayer/Susannah a laundress) Philip and Susannah had 9 children and settled in nsw ... would very much like to know if any family still in Dorset(Dorcestshire/Gillenghan)... my g grandparents were Henry Coombes & Margaret Nieland, Bernard O'Doherty & Sarah Carney, grandparents William Coombes & Margaret O'Doherty, William and Margaret had 5 children, Veronica/Balfour/Gladstone/Philip/Lloyd, I am Gladstone's (Mac) daughter Roslyn (Coombes) ...interested in finding out more about the family history and would appreciate any relevant info on the families and their part of England .. thank you, ros" Many thanks -- Cathy Haynes Geelong, Vic AUSTRALIA Researching: HAYNES - NSW & Co Cork, Ireland TAYLOR - Central Coast NSW Alfred KELLY born c1842 London CURRAN - NSW & Bristol O'DOHERTY - Kings County Ireland CARNEY - Co Donegal, Ireland BRISTOW(E) - London FITZSIMMONS - Co Louth, Ireland William NORMAN (convict) born 1803 Kent RILEY - Co Cavan