"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