Hi Rod, Appears the details of Thaddeo Leary being in the 4th Regiment and dying on Norfolk Island are a "miss mash" of details. There's a card in the General Index at TAHO that says - Sgt Leary, died 1833 of the 4th Regiment. Connolly burial register. The extract is from J H Cullen's transcript of Father Connolly's records. This Sgt Leary was buried in the old Roman Catholic Cemetery in Hobart. Contingents of the 4th did go to Norfolk Island...so I'm wondering if there has been a confusion of facts jumbled together. The other odd thing is that in the payroll and muster lists of the 4th or "Kings Own" (WO12 Reel 3697 piece 2214 1832-33 & 3698 piece 2215 1833 to end there is no Leary recorded anywhere. Not in the NCO's or the privates?? So I don't know where Sgt Leary of the 4th Regiment came from unless it was a translation error of Cullen and it was some other regimental number ?? TAHO doesn't have the original records for early Roman Catholic registers only the transcript so there's no way to verify the burial details. Cheers, Peter On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Graeme & Wynnette Ford via < aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi Rod, > > I had correspondence with a Noelene Goodwin many years ago when I was > searching for my own O'Leary family. > > She had researched every (O) Leary family living in Tasmania and had an > ancestor Cornelius Leary, whom I believe also lived on the North West > Coast. > > However, from old correspondence, it would seem this Cornelius had a > brother > John, and she believed she had found them in Joyce Purtscher's Orphans > index. Their parents were named. However, she went on to say that their > father John and uncle Timothy were transported from County Cork for > stealing > a cow. So I am afraid, not very likely to be your family. > > I have found a reference in one of her letters to family stories from two > different family sources, saying that this Cornelius was said to be "a > bare-back rider in a circus in his youth". Not sure that was ever > proved..... > > I had a quick look at Trove, and there are so many mentions of a Cornelius > Leary, you would have to sift through them carefully to hopefully find a > mention of yours. > > Not much help, but it shows the name is not so uncommon as one might think. > > Cheers, > > Wynnette. > > -----Original Message----- > From: aus-tasmania-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:aus-tasmania-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of rod via > Sent: Thursday, 15 January 2015 3:26 PM > To: Aus TAS > Subject: [AUS-Tas] Cornelius LEARY > > Hi > Looking for assistance with a Cornelius LEARY born about 1829 possible > Ireland father Thaddeo LEARY Thaddeo was believed to be in the 4 Regiment > of > Foot and died on Norfolk Island 1833 (I cannot find his death), and his > wife > went back to Ireland Cornelius joined the army either the 12 regiment or > the > 99th in 1855 and came to Australia serving in Victoria before moving to the > Devonport area Tasmania and died 1896 Lefroy Can anyone find any more in > formation on him please > > How would I find Thaddeo Leary's death on Norfolk Island, Any assistance > would be most appreciated Rod > ------------------------------- > 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 > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.5645 / Virus Database: 4260/8932 - Release Date: 01/14/15 > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2015.0.5645 / Virus Database: 4260/8933 - Release Date: 01/15/15 > > ------------------------------- > 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 >