The Tree of Me

I have a copy of a page of deaths from a Ryan family bible. The bible belonged to James Ryan, my husband's great, great, great grandfather. In this post I would like to try and work out the relationship between all of the people mentioned in the entries. The entries are not written in chronological order. James Ryan, father of Daniel  James Ryan has identified himself as the father of Daniel, his eldest son. 1.  January 25th 1906 at 3:20 in the afternoon m y brother John died  John Ryan, the son of Daniel Ryan and Ann died at Uralla. (NSW 3306/1906 ) 2. August 28th 1912, at one o'clock a.m. my son Daniel died  Daniel was the elder of twins sons born to James Ryan and his wife Catherine Cleary.  3. September 17th 1912 Patrick Ryan Burrawa died in the afternoon  Patrick Ryan was born in about 1850 in Cashel, Tipperary, came to Australia as a boy with his mother and brother Timothy (Goulburn) and after living in Kiama and Gerringong finally settled in Burrowa...

This is the second post highlighting photographs of the headstones of direct ancestors on my husband's mother's line.  Grandparents Albert Gustav Scheef & Julia Waters Armidale Great grandparents Jakob Scheef & Christina Glock Armidale Robert Waters & Ann Dawson Armidale Great great grandparents Georg Ludwig Glock & Barbara Rosina Wägerle Uralla No known headstone Andrew Silas Waters & Margaret Doherty  Armidale, NSW Elis Hare Dawson & Mary Richardson (may not be buried here)  Armidale, New South Wales Great, great great grandparents Thomas Dawson & Betsy Hare Armidale district (Unmarked grave)

While reading the obituary of Mary Anne Sullivan Ryan, wife of John Ryan of Uralla, NSW, I read that her mother had been murdered when she was twelve. Her lot in this her adopted country was marked by a very grim tragedy, for she had the extremely shocking experiences of a young mother cruelly murdered by the blacks. This tragedy occurred in the Aberfoyle district. Mrs Ryan was then only 12 years old, being the second eldest in a family of four sons and three daughters, the youngest a baby in arms. For several years before the advent of Trove I had searched for documented evidence of the murder of Ellen Sullivan. She died before 1856 so I had difficulty deciding which Ellen Sullivan she was and without a specific year it was too overwhelming to search several years of The Armidale Express . However, once I knew about Trove this search was one of the first I performed. Although The Armidale Express is not on Trove (can't wait for this one) I knew the news would have been publis...

This post is a thank you to Geniaus and her blog Genimates . I was profiled on this blog in March 2011.  Earlier this year I was contacted by a Glock (Uralla) relative of my husbands. I was overseas at the time and promised to make contact when I returned. It turns out that this gentleman was going on holidays and would speak to me upon his return. He said he was coming to Coffs Harbour for his holiday which is actually where I live. To cut a long story short we arranged to meet and swapped some information. I asked him how he had found me and was shown the copy of my information on Genimates. So thank you Jill for Genimates.

Amongst my mother-in-law's collection of photos that came from her mother is this wonderful one of a road being built. The photo was most likely taken in Armidale, but possibly Uralla. Of course, I have no idea when the photo was taken or who the two gentlemen are but I'm making an assumption that at least one of the men is related to my husband. The clues to locating this street I feel are the two trees and the house facing the street. Short of driving up and down each street the only idea I can think of is to send a copy to The Armidale Express hoping that they will publish the image. Someone may recognise the street as their own.