-----Original Message----- From: Sherrie Blackman <[email protected]> To: Murray Barnet <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 7 August 2000 0:55 Subject: Re: correction >Hi Murray, > >I can't find your original email, but noticed your Australian email >address. I'm researching Barnetts from Scotland that settled in >Victoria, Australia, and wonder if there might be a connection... > >Captain John Shiirs BARNETT (of Dundee, Scotland) married Jane SMITH >(year?) >Children that I know of: > >John Shirrs BARNETT - c.1835 Aberdeen, Scotland - sailed to Victoria, >Australia >William BARNETT - c.1842 Dundee, Scotland - sailed to Victoria, >Australia > >Shirrs (with variations of: Shiirs, Shirris, Sherris) seems to be a >family name. It has been passed down through the generations in >Australia. > >The BARNETT brothers married two HISLOP sisters in Victoria, Australia. >The HISLOP sisters were also from Scotland. > >John Sherriss BARNETT married Janet HISLOP (c.1837 Glasgow, Scotland) in >Melbourne >Australia 1860. > >William BARNETT married Mary HISLOP (c.1840 Perth, Scotland) in >Melbourne Australia >1863. > >Associated surnames: RYAN, SAYER, HEMSWORTH, YOUNG, HENDERSON, OSBORNE, >PHILPOT & many others. > >Kind regards, >Sherrie Blackman. >Sydney, Australia. > >Also researching: >BACK - Southampton; BARNETT - Aberdeen, Dundee, Scotland ; BEDDOES - >Shropshire: BLACKMAN - Cambridge; - CRICHTON - Fife, Edinburgh, >Scotland; CUCAN - Surrey; DIXON - Staffordshire; ELLARD - Tipperary, >Ireland; EVANS - Staffordshire; FOYE - Wigan, Lancashire; HISLOP - >Glasgow, Perth, Scotland; HORSEMAN - Surrey; HUGHES - Kildare, Ireland; >JAMISON - Cumberland - England, Antrim - Ireland; LINTON - Liverpool; >LITTLEBOY - Cambridge, Norfolk; LUTT - Stretham, Cambridge; McGREGOR - >Glasgow, Perth, Scotland; MURPHY - Cobh, Cork, Ireland; PRESTAGE - >London; ROSS - Holstein, Denmark; SEAGER - Staffordshire; SHEA - >Inchigeelagh, Cork, Ireland; SILK - Staffordshire; SIMPSON - Manchester, >Lancashire; SMITH - Aberdeen, Dundee, Scotland; THEARLE - London; ULAND >- Belgium; WARD - Manchester, Lancashire; WAKEFORD - Southampton; >YOUNGER - Kirkcaldy, Scotland. > >************************* > >Murray Barnet wrote: > >> Have a correction to a earlier posting. >> Arthur Barnett was born in 1888 and NOT 1898 as supplied earlier. >> Sorry typo error > Sherrie, Ufortunately at this stage i can see no connection as Arthur Barnett, my grandfather came from the London area of England, and he went to New Zealand. At this stage i have very little on this family, i know that he had brothers and sisters but to date have been able to identify them. So i dont know if any came to Australia. Regards Murray