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AGNEW                   Castledawson, Derry, (Ireland) pre 1836 and Cooma (NSW)
ALLSOP                   Warwickshire (England)
BIRT                         Derry (Ireland) ALL
BRENNAN               Muckalee, Kilkenny (Ireland) pre 1885 and Armidale (NSW)
DAWSON                 Co Dublin, Monaghan (Ireland) - ALL
DAWSON                 Renhold, Bedfordshire (England) pre 1848 and Armidale (NSW)
FLEMING                Stranraer Wigtownshire (Scotland) - ALL
FLYNN                     Cork (Ireland) pre 1822 and Sydney (NSW)
GILES                      Cootehill, Cavan (Ireland) ALL
GLOCK                    Grosbottwar, Wurtenberg (Germany) pre 1852 and Uralla (NSW)
HALLORAN          
HANNAH                 Antrim (Ireland) ALL
HARRISON              Liverpool (England)
HENRY                    Antrim (Ireland) ALL
HOPE                        Lancashire (England)                
KERR
KEY
LAGAN                     Derry (ALL)
LEE/LEY                   Ireland (ALL)
MCCOLM                 Wigtownshire (Scotland)
McELWEE                Derry (ALL)
McINERNEY            Waterford (Ireland) and Alberton (Victoria)
MERCHANT             Shropshire, Somerset (England) and Tenterfield (NSW)
MOORE                     Antrim (1880s), Wallangarra and Brisbane (ALL)
MYLAN/MOYLAN  Cork (Ireland) 1800s, and Cooma (NSW)
OGDEN                      Ashton Under Lyne (Lancashire) and Sydney (NSW) and Perth (WA)  
PRINCE                     Alstonfield (Staffordshire)
RYAN                         Waterford (Ireland) and Balmain and Kyogle (NSW)
RYAN                          Tipperary (Ireland) and Uralla (NSW)
SCHEEF                      Unterturkheim (Germany) and Uralla and Armidale (NSW)
SEABROOK               England (All) and Hobart (Tasmania)
SPATCH/SPETCH      Yorkshire (England) and Glen Innes (NSW)
WATERS                     London (England) and Armidale (NSW)
WHITE                        Norfolk (England) and Hobart (Tasmania)



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