Good morning everyone ... I have a bit of a puzzle :) Henry WILKES 'appeared' in Western Australia in 1865 when he married Agnes MOTTERSHEAD from Lancashire. On the marriage certificate he stated he was a shoemaker and he named his father as George WILKES a locksmith of Birmingham. Agnes and Henry had five children with the surname WILKES then suddenly Agnes children are named JONES ... and later FALLON. Subsequent research revealed that the relationship with WILKES had broken down and Agnes was associated with FALLON. The gap between the WILKES and JONES research uncovered primary documents giving his name as Henry JONES and James JONES. During this research it was discovered that the name NUNKEY was attributed to Agnes JONES and James JONES and it was proven that this Agnes was in fact Agnes MOTTERSHEAD. On my great grandmother's birth certificate she is born a WILKES however on her marriage certificate she is a JONES. One of her brother's when trying to join up in WW1 was not able to find his birth certificate and was told by his priest that he was not a JONES he was a WILKES and that was why the authorities could not find his birth record. The plot began to become both frustrating and intriguing and a search of the convict records revealed a James JONES alias NUNKEY having arrived on the 'Merchantman' from Bermuda 16th February 1863. He was convicted of larceny 26 October 1857 in Birmingham and his occupation was an Axle Tree Turner and colonial occupation was a shoemaker. It is apparent that convicts were sent to Bermuda from England and that this voyage of the 'Merchantman' picked up convicts from Bermuda to transport to Australia as opposed to them coming direct from the England. We have concluded that Henry WILKES was his correct name as this is on both his marriage certificate and his death certificate. James JONES was obviously an alias as was NUNKEY ... no primary sources in Western Australia turn up the name NUNKEY so we think that is a nick name. Any assistance with this mystery would be greatly appreciated. Bright Blessings, Sandra. Fremantle W. Aust. FFFIAF Member - http://www.diggerz.org/~anzacs/fffaif.htm Perth Dead Person's Society - http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/default.html Reciprocal Research - http://www.londonancestor.com/recip/recip.htm ~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~* Knowledge speaks and wisdom listens. ~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~* >From: warwick-request@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: warwick@rootsweb.com >To: warwick@rootsweb.com >Subject: WARWICK Digest, Vol 2, Issue 259 >Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:04:37 -0600 > > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. mystery solved (Jestrrwolf) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:12:27 -0700 (PDT) >From: Jestrrwolf <jester2652@yahoo.com> >Subject: [WAR] mystery solved >To: WARWICK-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <208104.49224.qm@web56108.mail.re3.yahoo.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > >Hi List, > >I want to thank Wendy for helping breakdown the brick wall on my >gggrandfather and gggrandmother. > >I now have the correct Hammond family and maiden name of my gggrandmother. >If anyone is >researching Dumbleton, I'm now looking for William Dumbleton married to >Sarah Douce in 1831 >Stivichal. If anyone is researching William Homan (derivative of Hammond) >please contact me. > >thanks >Denise > >Genealogy - connecting family trees > >http://genfam.com/FAMILY/index2.html > >Join the Genfam Newsletter and get the lastest links, databases, events and >more delivered to you every month. > > > > > > > > > > > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all >the tools to get online. >http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting > > >------------------------------ > >To contact the WARWICK list administrator, send an email to >WARWICK-admin@rootsweb.com. > >To post a message to the WARWICK mailing list, send an email to >WARWICK@rootsweb.com. > >__________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com >with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body >of the >email with no additional text. > > >End of WARWICK Digest, Vol 2, Issue 259 >*************************************** _________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: Search for local singles online at Lavalife http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Flavalife9%2Eninemsn%2Ecom%2Eau%2Fclickthru%2Fclickthru%2Eact%3Fid%3Dninemsn%26context%3Dan99%26locale%3Den%5FAU%26a%3D29892&_t=764581033&_r=email_taglines_Search&_m=EXT