For many years, other family researchers have added Joseph Mallett and Sarah Jordan of Pettistree to their trees as the parents of my direct ancestor, Thomas Mallett 1761-1838 from Lowestoft and Kessingland in Suffolk. THIS IS NOT CORRECT!! Joseph and…
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The California Gold Rush began in January 1848 with the first announcement in Australia on December 23, 1848 in the Sydney Morning Herald. The news of the discovery soon spread around the world and by the end of January 1849,…
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Our Earliest Known Ancestors – Owen Barrett and Ann Logan Dr Brian Turner, Director of the Down County Museum and the Ulster Historical Foundation suggested, in reply to my enquiry: “Barrett [name] is uncommon in Fermanagh, but it is much…
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County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland What was County Fermanagh like when our Barrett ancestors lived there before making the enormous decision to emigrate to the other side of the world in 1841? In the early part of the eighteenth century the…
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Michael Barrett was a Fenian patriot. Accused of murder he was the last man to be publicly hanged in England in 1868. When I visited County Fermanagh in May 1994, on asking the locals for information on the Barrett family…
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Thomas Hughes was the earliest of my ancestors to arrive in the Australian colony in 1825. Here is his story, and that of his wife Sarah Want.
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In 1853 the “Triton” arrived in New South Wales laden with German vinedressers. Among the passengers were our Dries family Lorchhausen on the Rhine. Over the last 30 years or so, many descendants gathered information about our ancestors which we…
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18th Century Religion, Literature, and Culture Explorations of Cultural Intersections S An Account of Sarah Mallett An Account of S[arah] Mallitt. Arminian Magazine XI (1788): 91-93, 130-133, 185-188, 238-242. Editor’s Introduction: Sarah Mallett (sometimes spelled Mallitt or Mallet) Boyce was born in Norfolk in…
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Armorial shields are arms that had ancient and tribal significance, as opposed to arms that were later assumed by an individual as a part of a non-hereditary British knighthood. The arms of the Barrett family are based on word play,…
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THE MEANING OF THE NAME BARRETT It must be remembered that it wasn’t until about 1500 that the custom of everyone having one surname only and keeping it was generally established. Edward McLysaght[1] believes that the Irish Barretts were of…