I have been researching the Andrews family of St Marys for a few years and it has been difficult at times because of the number of Andrews families in the area. My gt gt grandfather was Thomas Andrews. There were 2 Thomas Andrews in the district at the same time. My Thomas was born 1845 to Samuel and Harriet Andrews [Judge] in St Marys. He married Corah Maskey on 26 Dec 1869 and had 10 children, James, Frederick, Leonard, Tulip, Lydia, Mildred, Miriam, Bruce, Harry and Gertrude. Thomas died in 1942 in St Marys. The other Thomas Andrews was born in 1848 to Stephen and Elizabeth Andrews. Both Stephen and Elizabeth died in Mt Druitt. This Thomas married Mary Ann Sophia Soames in 1871, but she died in 1872 in childbirth [daughter Laura Alice]. He then married Angelina Jane Jones and had children, Emma, Ethel, Walter and Ernest. This Thomas died in 1945. Both Thomas lived near or on the Western Road, my Thomas at Werrington and the other at St Marys. Also in the St Marys/Penrith area there appears to have been 5 Andrews families [that I know of]. Samuel and Harriet Andrews [nee Judge] settled in the area in 1839. Their children were John, Fanny, Harriet, Eliza, Charles, Thomas, William, Sarah, James, Henry, Mary Ann and Alice Ann. Charles and Jane Andrews [Davis] arrived about 1848. There children were Sarah, Rebecca, Caroline, Mary Jane, Charlotte, Lucy, Charles Josiah, William Henry John, Thomas Adam and Edward Clement. Stephen and Elizabeth Andrews lived in the Mt Druitt area. I am unsure when they arrived [I think prior to 1842] but the few children I can find in the BDMs were John, Edward, William, Thomas and Henry. George and Eliza Andrews of Dunheved & Castlereagh arrived around 1870 and had children Henry Roland, Rose, George William, Annie Louise, Edward Beach, Isabel and Albert Gordon. George worked for John Lethbridge King. Thomas James {known as James] Andrews was a butcher of Penrith. He first married Mary Brownlow in 1853 and had children Charlotte, Harriett and George. His second marriage was to Harriett Rooney in 1872 and had children Alfred, Edwin and Rebecca. Harriett was the daughter of a policeman and was the licensee of an hotel in Penrith. I hope this may be of interest to someone. Kristine Wood