Updating!!!!

Ok so yes it is about time I update this!!

I have been really excited about getting in touch with my Dad's cousin and actually meeting up with her and her husband :o) We had such a fantastic day together!!

I have been going great guns with the McDonnell's and have found out that Edward McDonnell who emigrated to Australia in about 1913 died in a Sydney suburb called Peakhurst in 1975. It looks likely he remarried and had a son. I think there are links to Newtown and Peakhurst, but there is, as ever, more investigating to do!! Would really love to hear from anyone who finds this blog searching for the above!!

Still looking for more information on Frederick Taylor b 1873 in Sunderland. I found him in 1911 but living with his children and parents after the death of his first wife Elizabeth Ellen Bell in 1906. I am told he remarried and had further Taylor children but have been unable to find them as yet......it's possible he never actually married but just lived with his "second wife".

Still no sign of William Murrell b 1873 despite the LMA records coming onto Ancestry!! Still can't prove either way the French/Bethnal Green connection. I'm thinking maybe he also remarried as did Margaret Georgina Coutts but I've yet to find it!!! TBH he could have gone anywhere after 1901 (ish) I found Grandma Coutts in 1911 enumerated as Lisle but still no sign of her in 1901.

Found some great info on baptism's and marriages' on the LMA records though :o)

All for now!!

SJ x x x x