----- Original Message ----- From: "Anton McLoughlin" <[email protected]> To: "sydney" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 11:29 PM Subject: [ANS] REYNOLDS Mary Ann 1858 and REYNOLDS Sarah J 1863 Hi Anton > I am new to this list and am hoping someone can give me more information > the two girls names above born in Sydney. > All i know is that their father was Thomas REYNOLDS I cant find any evidence here for that or an Sarah Jane , dau of a Thomas? Certainly not in NSW birth records or in Ancestrys general AUS births indexes and according to > Mary Ann's marriage cert(married to Edwin HARDING in UK in 1895 he was > alive and was a publican. Can find no Thomas REYNOLDS connected to the hotel trade here in the 1903 / 1910 electoral rolls > Also I know that there were descendants of REYNOLDS still in Australia > at the end of WW2 as they sent fruit to the HARDING family in the UK. Need more info to pin this down ?? Mary Ann is in the 1901 census b Australia aged 37, so b c1863 but cant find her in the 1911 or in Ancestrys UK incoming passenger indexes ??? Bye MargM Sydney List Admin

Hi All Thanks for the speedy replies. The info born Sydney came from one census return in UK but foreign births not always accurate rest of census years just show as Australia which is as per enumerator's instructions. Unfourtunately more knowledge of living rellies sending dried fruit after WW2 is just a childhood memory of the gifts...there are no surviving letters or details of any family in australia. This quest started as a family rumour of an australian connection nothing more....i managed to trace the connection via a UK marriage certificate. I have also checked incoming passengers to UK and neither girls show up though Mary Ann REYNOLDS turns up in 1871 UK census as a "relative" aged 13 and both Mary Ann REYNOLDS and her sister Sarah J turn up in 1881 uk census in service then both get married and stay in UK. I have tried tracing the "relative" with whom Mary Ann was with in 1871 and have ascertained that the HOH wife's maiden name was REYNOLDS so could have been Thomas's sister but cannot find them together in a census as children in 1841. As these girls returned to uk as young teenagers it leads me to assume either father died or remarried...will try to check other states for information. thanks to all again who replied. regards Anton On 19/12/2010 22:52, Marg M wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anton McLoughlin"<[email protected]> > To: "sydney"<[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 11:29 PM > Subject: [ANS] REYNOLDS Mary Ann 1858 and REYNOLDS Sarah J 1863 > > > Hi Anton > >> I am new to this list and am hoping someone can give me more information >> the two girls names above born in Sydney. >> All i know is that their father was Thomas REYNOLDS > I cant find any evidence here for that or an Sarah Jane , dau of a Thomas? > Certainly not in NSW birth records > or in Ancestrys general AUS births indexes > > and according to >> Mary Ann's marriage cert(married to Edwin HARDING in UK in 1895 he was >> alive and was a publican. > > Can find no Thomas REYNOLDS connected to the hotel trade here in the 1903 / > 1910 electoral rolls > > >> Also I know that there were descendants of REYNOLDS still in Australia >> at the end of WW2 as they sent fruit to the HARDING family in the UK. > Need more info to pin this down ?? > > Mary Ann is in the 1901 census b Australia aged 37, so b c1863 but cant find > her in the 1911 or > in Ancestrys UK incoming passenger indexes ??? > > > Bye > > MargM > Sydney List Admin > > > > Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any > reply...... Thank you! > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

----- Original Message ----- From: "Anton McLoughlin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 7:40 PM Subject: Re: [ANS] REYNOLDS Mary Ann 1858 and REYNOLDS Sarah J 1863 > ...will try to check other states for > information. Hi again Anton The AUS Birth indexes on Ancestry I referred to is a more or less consolidated one covering all States 1788-1922. Just to be sure I checked the individual State birth records and closest was a Mary Jane Lucy REYNOLDS b 1862 in Western Australia. Alas fathers name not Thomas and no sister named Sarah Jane Could they have been married before ? ............ 35 yo is abit old for getting married for the first time . . Did either have any children ? . Doesnt look like Mary Ann did ?? bye MargM Sydney List Admin