At 12:30 PM 4/6/2000 +1000, you wrote: > > > >Just writing in the vague hope that someone may have any info. on JOSEPH ROYALL/ROYAL married LUCY GUMMER/GUNNIA St James Church,Bristol, 7th June 1818. JOSEPH was an Engineer, his fathers name was JOHN and his mother HANNAH ROSE.He had a sister, HESTER. >JOSEPH and LUCY had 4 Children, >1. JOSEPH b.1826 Bristol d. 1906 Melbourne,Australia >2.LOUISA b.1820 Bristol d.1889 Geelong,Victoria,Australia >3.ESTHER or HESTHER b.? d.1860 Monmouthshire,Wales >4.THOMAS BOYD b.1835 Bristol d.1888 Melbourne,Australia. > >There have been sporadic efforts over the last 20 years or so to obtain more detail pre 1818, but no luck really.Here's hoping.....thanks JAN ROYAL > G'day Jan Sorry I can't help you but I hope you got some useful info from the list. I compile an index of GLS born people who arrived Australia pre 1888 and would like to add your family to my index. I already have an entry for Thomas from his marriage (to Ann BARNETT who was also from GLS) and death. I imagine Joseph is the one who married Sarah McPHERSON 1852? Also Louisa wife of John OWEN; presume you have the following: 758301 M172532 OWEN, John Marriage Wife: Louisa ROYALL Marriage Date: 28 Aug 1845 Recorded in: St. Andrews, Clifton, Gloucester, England Husband's Father: Samuel John OWEN Wife's Father: Joseph ROYALL Source: FHL Number 1595529 Dates: 1837-1858 However I do have the death of an Esther LEWIS who died VIC 1864/2815 aged 36; said born Bristol, father Joseph ROYAL - could this be your Hester/Esther? Is the mother Lucy the one who died Melbourne 1851 aged 59? I would be grateful if you could give me the dates and ships of arrival for all these if you have them. Did Joseph die ENG? If Lucy did die here was she also born GLS or Bristol? I would like to add you as a researcher for this family and would appreciate a snail mail address for contact purposes. Regards Kaye Kaye Purnell <kayepur@ozemail.com.au> Ancestors from GLS who came to Oz? Database kept on GLS arrivals to AUS pre 1888. Entries happily accepted; searches done. Visit my site at <http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kayepur>. Snail mail to 15 Balla Machree Way, Gymea Bay NSW 2227 AUS, including SSAE or 1 IRC.