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I have been researching my family and that of my husband's for several decades now. My family is mostly Irish with some English; my husband's is Scottish and English. I have located branches from both families in the U.S.A., Canada and Australia, as well as some 'cousins' who remained 'at home' in the UK and Eire.

My names, on the paternal side:

Gleeson, Maurice...my great grandfather, (abt 1820-1879) Rathmore, co. Kerry Irl.

Lynch, Elizabeth ...my great grandmother (b.1838 Clounkeen co.Kerry;d.1917 St Louis,Missouri USA).

Ryan, Johanna Margaret...my grandmother, b abt 1873, Tipperary, Irl;d.1945 Perth Western Australia.

This is a photo of Maurice and Johanna Gleeson, with their twin sons, Maurice (my father) and Patrick, taken abt.1905. The other photos are of the Gleeson farm in Gneeveguilla near Rathmore and my great grandfather's grave in Rathmore, co. Kerry

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My names, on the maternal side:

Pinker....beginning with Isaac who was born abt 1710 in Christian Malford, Wiltshire, and married Betty Harding there in 1733. The Pinkers were stone masons to trade, moving from Christian Malford to Box, thence to Bristol, before four siblings emigrated in the 1880s to Perth Western Australia.

My great grandfather, Thomas Pinker, his wife Amelia nee Duddridge and eight of their nine children sailed on the Otago arriving in 1886, the youngest child, Annie, dying on the voyage. Their eldest daughter, Alice, had preceded them, accompanying her widowed aunt (Emmeline Alden nee Pinker) and three young cousins in their emigration to Western Australia on board the Helena Mena in 1884. Thomas himself was dead of typhoid fever within six months of arrival, leaving his pregnant widow to distribute her children...the two oldest girls into marriages, the three oldest sons into work, the two youngest sons, my grandfather Arthur and his brother Thomas, into an orphanage. Amelia herself made a second marriage, not long after the still birth of her last Pinker child.

These next four photographs depict the redoubtable Amelia Pinker, nee Duddridge, later Hemphill; Arthur Edwin Pinker, her second youngest son and my maternal grandfather; Box Village, Wilts., ca 1910, where generations of Pinker stone workers were employed; Brunel's Tunnel at Box, which probably provided employment for my Pinkers

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Ahern..my great great grandfather, Michael Ahern, was born abt 1819 in Shandon, Cork,Irl, enlisted in the British Army and finished serving in India, initially in the 17th foot Regiment, but transferred to the 8th Regiment shortly after his marriage to Mary Ann Butler in 1847 at Colabah, India. Mary was said to have been 'Spanish', but it is quite likely she was Anglo-Indian. Three of their surviving children were born in India, but Michael was discharged in 1861 and signed on as a Pensioner Guard to accompany convicts to the Swan River Colony on the York. Three more children, among them my great grandfather, Arthur, were born in Fremantle Western Australia .

These are photographs of three of the children of Arthur Ahern. Do you think they are consistent with my theory that their grandmother was Anglo-Indian? From left to right...Agnes Gertrude Ahern (my grandmother), Clarence Arthur Ahern and Ada Louisa Ahern.

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My husband's names-the paternal line:

McKinlay/ Mackinlay: The earliest ancestor I have been able to verify is Peter McKinlay, b. abt 1780, Callander Perthshire, d. 1853 Campsie. He was possibly the son of Finlay McKinlay and Janet McFarlane, but I have no definite proof. Peter, a slater to trade, married Margaret Kincaid in Campsie Stirlingshire in 1804 and raised a large family. The youngest, a son named John(1820-1898), also a slater, was my husband's great great grandfather. He married Mary McDougall in Campsie and their first three children were born there before he moved his family to Glasgow about 1850, although he was to return to Campsie to live alone in his latter years. John's son Archibald (b.1847 Campsie, d.1922 Tambellup Western Australia),a plumber and gas fitter, married Mary Frizzell in Donegal, Irl, raising his family firstly in Glasgow, then Stevenston Ayrshire, before emigrating to Quebec in Canada in 1907, where he eventually left his wife and daughters to join his only son in Western Australia to help him with a pioneer farm in 1915.

The photo on the left is of Archibald McKinlay with his wife Mary and daughters Isabella, Polly,Georgina, Elizabeth and only son John, abt 1893. The photo on the right depicts 'The Humpy'...the farm pioneered by Archibald and John McKinlay at Flat Rocks Western Australia in 1915.

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Gould Of Devon and Dorset. A well documented English family, which appears in the Heralds' Visitations of both those counties and purports to descend from one John Gould/Gold, a Crusader who was rewarded for his efforts at the siege of Damietta abt 1217 with an estate at Seaborough. The Goulds prospered as merchants and by making shrewd marriages. One branch established itself at Upwey and West Stafford, before falling into decline during the lifetime of the Rev. John Gould of Beaconsfield, Bucks. (1780-1866), who was obliged to sell the family property of Frome Billet. The only son of John Gould, John Henry (1826-1896), emigrated to Victoria Australia and his son, also John Henry Gould (1868-1948), my husband's grandfather, moved to Western Australia where his youngest daughter Dorothy was born and married Archibald Mackinlay, only son of John Mackinlay.

These photos show St Mary's and All Saints, Beaconsfield, Bucks, where the Rev. John Gould was rector and Stafford House, the home of the Gould family in Frome Billet (West Stafford) near Dorchester.

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