After a long break I am back looking for my ancestor John TERRY and getting desperate. He married a Sarah WEST in 1836 in Sydney and their place of residence was St Vincent. They had at least 2 children baptised in the Yass C of E 1. Martha Terry born 21 Apr 1840 baptised 14 May 1840 2. Matilda Jane baptised 3 Feb 1841 Their place of residence is listed as "Cookup" Tumut, (maybe this should read Gocup) and father John is listed as a Labourer. On John & Sarah's marriage record two of the witnesses were William & Mary BERRY and I think these are the same couple that married in 1834 at the C of E Goulburn area (MC early church record). I was hoping if I could connect John TERRY and William BERRY (ex soldiers or convicts) I may have a starting point as all my leads so far have come to a dead end. There is a William BERRY who died in Yass in 1889 maybe someone has him in their tree. The John TERRY in Bombala is NOT mine as it seems he married in England. Hoping someone can help knock a small hole in my brickwall TIA Lynne SA

Hi Lynne Have you looked at the 1841 Census- from the State Records NSW indexes online John Terry (householder) Return 39 X947 Gurudigby District of Murrumbidgee Page 89 Reel 2222. The returns for this area are not the full documents but the abstracts. Hopefully this will tell you if John and or Sarah were exconvicts. They do not appear to have made a request for permission to marry via the Governor so neither had a TOL or still serving sentence at the time of the marriage. You can order a copy of the Census document from the website but I am not sure of the cost. Lorraine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynne Thompson" <netty@picknowl.com.au> To: <AUS-NSW-SE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 8:05 AM Subject: [NSW-SE] John TERRY/William BERRY > After a long break I am back looking for my ancestor John TERRY and > getting > desperate. > > He married a Sarah WEST in 1836 in Sydney and their place of residence was > St Vincent. > > They had at least 2 children baptised in the Yass C of E > > 1. Martha Terry born 21 Apr 1840 baptised 14 May 1840 > > 2. Matilda Jane baptised 3 Feb 1841 > > Their place of residence is listed as "Cookup" Tumut, (maybe this should > read Gocup) and father John is listed as a Labourer. > > On John & Sarah's marriage record two of the witnesses were William & Mary > BERRY and I think these are the same couple that married in 1834 at the C > of > E Goulburn area (MC early church record). I was hoping if I could connect > John TERRY and William BERRY (ex soldiers or convicts) I may have a > starting > point as all my leads so far have come to a dead end. > > There is a William BERRY who died in Yass in 1889 maybe someone has him in > their tree. > > The John TERRY in Bombala is NOT mine as it seems he married in England. > > Hoping someone can help knock a small hole in my brickwall > > TIA > > Lynne > SA > > > > To post a message to the AUS-NSW-SE mailing list, send an email to > AUS-NSW-SE@rootsweb.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-NSW-SE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >