-----Original Message----- From: Ken & Lorraine Neate <kenneate@tig.com.au> To: John & Annette Morton Allen <jmortona@tpg.com.au>; AUS-NSW-SE-L@rootsweb.com <AUS-NSW-SE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, 30 December 1998 17:59 Subject: Re: John & Catherine RITCHIE > >-----Original Message----- >From: John & Annette Morton Allen <jmortona@tpg.com.au> >To: AUS-NSW-SE-L@rootsweb.com <AUS-NSW-SE-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Tuesday, 29 December 1998 23:18 >Subject: Re: John & Catherine RITCHIE > > >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Ken & Lorraine Neate <kneate@bigpond.com> >>To: AUS-NSW-SE-L@rootsweb.com <AUS-NSW-SE-L@rootsweb.com> >>Date: Tuesday, December 29, 1998 4:11 PM >>Subject: Re: CENSUS 1841 WHERE NEXT? >> >> >>> John Ritchie married for the FOURTH time in 1848 to Catherine Murphy. >> >>This part of the message interests us, as we have great great grandfather >>James ALLEN who married Ann DUNSTAR at the Presbyterian Church, Jamberoo >>on 18 Jan 1850. We obtained a photocopy of the marriage register entry >>from microfilm, which has the signatures of both John & Catherine RITCHIE >>of Jamberoo as witnesses to the marriage. >> >>We think that James ALLEN (born Kent circa 1818) was a convict. Is it >>possible that at the time of his marriage, he may have been assigned to >>John RITCHIE? Would anyone know the name of the property on which he may >>have worked? >>John Ritchie as per previous had 2x300 acres at Jamberoo. The property he >retained (sold 300 acres to William Cole also an ex-convict who had worked >for him) was called Poplar Grove. John Ritchie died in 1860 and his wife >(Catherine) probably remarried an Edward Dixon. The property inheritance >became the object of a supreme court action, not resolved until 1864. >>We do know that he later worked for Alexander BERRY as a fencer at >>Cooloongatta. >> >>Would appreciate any information. >> >>Regards, >>John & Annette Morton-Allen >>Gympie, Qld. >>jmortona@tpgi.com.au >> >>Lorraine >> >>==== AUS-NSW-SE Mailing List ==== >>History and genealogy in South-East New South Wales, Australia >> >