My family history

I have been researching my family history for about 15 years. I regularly upload developments in my research to the Worldconnect Australia and Beyond Database at Rootsweb.com. All my ancestors came to Australia (mainly Sydney) between 1835 and 1870, from England, Scotland, and Ireland. I have a Welsh connection from way back in the 16th Century. 

I still have lots of brick walls. I would be delighted to work with anyone who has the same dead-end to try to make progress.

I am always open to review my research. Some of my conclusions are based on circumstantial evidence or conjecture. Please let me know if you have evidence which can either prove or disprove a link I have made.

My database expands whereever my research goes, but the main families I am researching, and their place of origin before they came to Australia are:

ALLEYNE - Kent and Barbados

AX / AXE - Somerset, England

BAIRD - Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland

BALE - Abbotsham, Devon, England

BIRD - Woking, Surrey, England

BRAY - Gwennap, Cornwall, England

BRUCE - Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland

CLARINGBOLD - Deal, Kent, England

CLEWLEY - Cannock, Staffordshire, England

COLLIS - Alton and Ellastone, Staffordshire, England

CROSTON - Maghull, Lancashire, England

DIXSON - Deal, Kent, England

DODDS - Port Glasgow, Renfrew, Scotland

DOHERTY - Clare, Ireland

DOUGLAS - Edinburgh, Scotland

DRYBURGH - Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland

ELDRIDGE - Sandwich, Kent

HEUGH - Airth, Stirlingshire, Scotland

HUMPHREYS / HUMPRHIES - Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, England

LANDELS - Ladykirk, Berwickshire, Scotland

MCCORMICK - Dunbarton and Renfrewshire, Scotland

MCCULLOCH / MCCULLOUGH - Antrim, Ireland

MILLER - Dundee and Edinburgh, Scotland

MURRIN - Stowford, Devon, England

RALPH - Isle of Thanet, Kent, England

REDDAWAY - Sampford Courtenay and Belstone, Devon

SCATTERGOOD - Ellastone, Staffordshire, England

SCOBIE - Airth, Stirlingshire, Scotland

THOMAS - Breage and Falmouth, Cornwall, England

THOMAS - Helston, Cornwall, England

VEITCH - Edinburgh, Scotland

WALTER - Wales, England, Barbados

WIGNALL - Aughton and Ormskirk, Lancashire, England

WOODMAN - Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

4 generations of the Thomas family including Hannah Thomas (nee Reddaway) and Charles Henry Reddaway Thomas