MargM, you have just confirmed my reasons for hardly ever using this list any more. 1. Did I ask you specifically if you had the biogs at home? 2. The reference to his children's non-recorded marriages in SA does not answer my questions. 3. My enquiry said he and his wife and children arrived in 1848. Obviously they were already married/born elsewhere! 4. Just because _you_ can't find him in the 1841 census doesn't mean he didn't exist, does it? 5. Why should someone requesting specific information have to document evidence of the few facts that are already known? Kathy --- On Tue, 17/11/09, MargM <genknut@exemail.com.au> wrote: > From: MargM <genknut@exemail.com.au> > Subject: Re: Thomas PRETTY - South Australia look-up please > To: genanz@rootsweb.com > Received: Tuesday, 17 November, 2009, 2:27 PM > > "Kathy Pearson" <kathypea@yahoo.com.au> > wrote in message > news:mailman.186.1258425801.2037.genanz@rootsweb.com... > > Hi Kathy > > >Does anyone have access to the Biographical Index of > South > Australians? > > > > Not at home I dont > > > I am trying to find out the names of the parents of Thomas > PRETTY, > who with wife Mary nee SPOONER and ten children arrived in > >Adelaide > on board the Success on 28 January 1848. > > Did they stay in SA ???   The SA marriages > CD   1842 -1916 lists > parents names and are no SA marriages of anyone , child of > Thomas &  Mary . > > > I would like to know if he was a son of John and Mary (nee > HACKETT) > PRETTY of Poole in Dorset, and therefore a brother of my > great great > grandmother Anne Taylor WALKER nee PRETTY, who also arrived > in > Australia in that year but settled in NSW. > > > > If parents' names are not listed in the Biog. Index, > can anyone > > suggest alternative sources to research? I have tried > familysearch, > > but cannot find Thomas' birth. > > I cant find a Thomas PRETTY who fits your criteria in the > UK 1841 > census ??? > > Where  were  their kids  born ?    > Maybe parents married in the same > place ?? > > How do you know Marys maiden name was SPOONER ? > > You can get transcriptions of SA BDMs from the SA FHS for > alot less > the SA Registry charge  There maybe info on his death > record that not > in the index ?? > > SA newspapers not on line yet for 1872 > > As an after thought I just checked in genesreunited > .......... Are a > few Thomas PRETTYs inc 2 born  Poole ?? > > > Bye > > > -- > MargM > Beautiful NSW Central Coast > NSW > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENANZ-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message > __________________________________________________________________________________ Win 1 of 4 Sony home entertainment packs thanks to Yahoo!7. Enter now: http://au.docs.yahoo.com/homepageset/