Hello I am hoping someone maybe researching a family with the surname of MARKS. I have a SAMUEL MARKS and CAROLINE (possibly BEDFORD) who have family members buried at St. Bartholomew's Church cemetery, Prospect. My confusion is I found who I presumed were the Caroline and Samuel Marks I was trying to locate as arriving in Australia in 1855 on board the vessel "Ebba Brahe". Can anyone help me unravel my two ? possible families. I found on the BDM of NSW the following children either registered at Penrith or Parramatta Susan, Sarah, Mary Elizabeth, John, James, Samuel, Jane, Charles, Mercy & a second James. Thank You Hazel

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Hazel Magann wrote: > Hello > I am hoping someone maybe researching a family with the surname of MARKS. I have a SAMUEL MARKS and CAROLINE (possibly BEDFORD) who have family members buried at St. Bartholomew's Church cemetery, Prospect. > > My confusion is I found who I presumed were the Caroline and Samuel Marks I was trying to locate as arriving in Australia in 1855 on board the vessel "Ebba Brahe". > > Can anyone help me unravel my two ? possible families. I found on the BDM of NSW the following children either registered at Penrith or Parramatta Susan, Sarah, Mary Elizabeth, John, James, Samuel, Jane, Charles, Mercy & a second James. > > Thank You > Hazel Hazel I don't think that there are two families. Maybe registered in different centres!! The "Ebba Brahe" sailed from London for Sydney 6th January, 1855. There is no passenger list just a list of so many females and males - no children. Apparently Samuel and Caroline were newly wed when they made the voyage out. Their first child Mary E. was born in 1856 and died in 1899; the second was Mercy who was born in 1857, married Thomas Charles Coleman at Parramatta in 1882 and died at Granville in 1932; next child was John born 1859, died 1860; then came James born 1861, died 1861; then Agnes S. born 1862, married John McVey as Sarah Agnes in 1882, the marriage registered in Central Cumberland; Jane was next born 1864, died 1870, then came the second James born 1866, died 1868; then Samuel born 1868, possible marriage to Edith A, Brevitt in 1900, died in 1939, Edith died in 1932; Susan followed born 1871, married Thomas J. Ryan in 1900, died 1919 in Penrith; the last child born to the couple was Charles in 1874, he died in 1875. Birth or death certificates should tell if they were all one family or not. Hope these are of assistance. Neville