>Hello listers, > >I never have much time for my own family research, seem to be always >making indexes, answering queries and preparing talks to groups, but I >recently found that the family of Mary Jane MARTIN who married our William >Thompson Miller ACKERLY in Budock Cornwall in 1845 and came to >Glamorgan /New Norfolk /Spring Bay, Tasmania with their first four >children, had family which came to Melbourne ahead of them. > >The MARTIN family arrived per "Elizabeth" in July 1849, assisted > >Vincent Ag lab age 52 father of our Mary Jane (Ackerly) >Jane wife age 42 mother of our Mary Jane > >Their children accompanied them: >Eliza age 25 >William age 24 >Catherine age 22 >Ann age 20 >Blanche age 18 >Arthur age 16 >Priscilla age 15 >Benjamin age 13 >John Edwin age 11 >Helen age 10 > >And I wonder if there is a lister with connections to these Martins? > >I had got no further back than the marriage of Ackerly/ Martin in 1845 in >Budock, Cornwall and Martin is such a popular name with plenty of Mary or Jane. > >In Tasmania the Ackerlys have connections to PYKE (PIKE >variously) MATTHEWS, MAITLAND and LYNDE[O]N , STAPLES, GRIFFITHS and >probably BLACKLOW > >Most of the sons moved to Victoria from the 1860s and one married Selina >PELLOW, his cousin. > >regards, >Ada Ackerly, Melbourne, Australia >formerly Ackerly DocuSearch regards, Ada Ackerly, Melbourne, Australia formerly Ackerly DocuSearch