A difficult one Betty, You would think Rebecca Annie May Lyons born and died hobart 1873 might be one of the family. Her parents Sarah Ann Godfrey and Lyons unknown. That doesn't fit your me nation of the mother being a Langdon, unless she married again. The fact that the children were in the orphanage might point to their mother having been left or widowed. Might be worth investigating. Helen Brown Hobart Sent from my iPad > On 6 Jan 2015, at 10:12 am, Betty Pilgrim via <aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > I would be delighted if I can be helped with the above named person. She > was supposedly born in Hobart on 2 September 1979. I am trying to find out > the names of her parents. I believe she had a sister May Ellen Louisa Lyons > who was born 29 September 1978. I found that they were admitted to St > Joseph's orphanage on 15 April 1891 and another sister admitted on 2 January > 1896. I went to the Library in Hobart and checked baptism records but > unable to find any for the above named. On the death notice for Annie > Rebecca Newcombe (NSW) nee Lyons her mother was recorded as being Annie > Langdon. But I can't find any record of her either. On the admission > papers to St Joseph's Orphanage two admission case numbers are given: for > Annie Lyons - No. 4189 and for May Lyons - No. 2901. > > I tried to phone St Josephs yesterday without success to try and find out > about the admission case numbers but they are closed until 13 January. > > Can somebody guide me please? > > Best wishes > > > > ------------------------------- > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com > Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message