Hi all, Just in case newcomers to family history are unaware, both "Evelyn" and "Shirley", which we now regard as feminine names, were originally masculine names - a trap for the unwary?? "Pitfield' is a new one to me, but probably has good connections to that family at some time, somewhere. The name Alford appears in my ex-husband's name, and also in his father's, but was originally a surname further back in that family's history, and I suspect they were named after a village in northern Scotland, as his ancestry came from the county of Aberdeen. I have tracked down the origin of the baptised names of my mother and her 7 siblings, and can connect them to earlier generations of this English/French/Channel Islands family which became Australian in the late 1800s, through immigration from the UK. Always something interesting to think about in family history research. Liz. On 9/11/2011 6:28 PM, Andrew Fogarty wrote: > THERE WAS ALSO -- Evelyn Pitfield Shirley Sturt 1816--1885, a New South Wales Crown lands commissioner based at Yass in the 1830s who was a brother of the renowned explorer Charles Sturt and later overlanded stock and did some squatting before serving as a magistrate in Melbourne. E.P.S. Sturt was an original commissioner under the 1836 legislation championed by Governor Bourke which introduced a licensing system from 1837 in respect of pastoral occupation of Crown lands beyond "the limits of location" decreed by Governor Darling. Regards, ! ! > Andrew Fogarty Casino N.S.W. > > ---------------------- > To send a message to the Port Jackson Convicts List, send an email to > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > 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 > > >