I would love to hear from anyone researching the Sheedy families in Ireland.. or alternativly Sheehy. I have been researching the families for nearly ten years in the till present vain hope of finding what became of our Pat Sheedy's family . Pat had brothers Michael, Martin and John and sister Bridget and Catherine.. all born in Tipperary c 1815 onwards.. Pat was a naughty boy and sent to Tasmania in 1845 for attempting to ambush a party of police at OBrien's bridge..he was rather ungrateful and escaped after 5 years of a 15 year sentence..and he never went back ... he then turned up at the Eureka stockade rebellion in 1854 and got himself arrested[he said he was just looking] he was let off and promptly settled down in Killarney,Victoria Australia.. I have done extensive work on the Sheedys and still have not found what became of his parents John Sheedy and mary [Bourke ] and his siblings.. the sheedys are at http://www.standard.net.au/~jfawcett so would love to hear from anyone interested.. Jenny Fawcett