Hi guys,
You have been redirected here as my main site at aussierhonda.com is temporarily down. It is throwing a server error and I am already late for work, so it will have to wait and be fixed over the weekend.
I believe I am going to be grateful that we have a long weekend in front of us and I know what I will be doing..... finally switching to the wordpress install I have been working on in the back ground.
See you soon :)
Rhonda
New England's History: Dainggatti Entry Page
For those interested in my Farrell family you will be aware that my grandmother's people are Dainggatti. Jim Belshaw has some excellent articles on his blog New England's History: Dainggatti Entry Page nott only of the Dainggatti but the New England history as well.
Thanks Jim for making the entry page for the Dainggatti it will make it easier to keep track of the relevant post's.
Bebeannah Reeves and Bridget (?)
A new page for our Craft Genealogy Book displaying a descendant chart of Bebeannah Reeves, an offshoot branch of the Johnson's isn't that an unusual name? Wonder where it comes from...
Tonight I was answering an email in relation to my Hodges family - which is really my Leahy family, this in turn prompted me to run a search on Pockrandt's yet again. You would think with the name Pockrandt it would be easy to trace! Think again... This would certainly be right up there in my 'hard to trace' branches.
You see, my GGG Grandmother born Anna Maria Rowe c. 1843 in England somehow ended up in Australia with her daughter Louisa Bray born 1861, St Blazey, Cornwall, whether Anna's husband Willian 'John' Bray was with her or not is yet to be determined. I have not found any other children born to the Bray's nor have I been successful in finding the deaths of William John, Henry or Anna. However I have found the following:
Descendants of Henry Gustav(us) POCKRANDT
1-Henry Gustavus POCKRANDT b. Cir 1845-1847, Germany, d. 1883-1897, Aus
+Anna Maria ROWE aka BRAY b. Cir 1843, England, d. After 1898 (no marriage found)
. . 2-Male POCKRANDT (no birth found, but could be the Stephen Shcultz/Pockran listed below)
. . 2-Male POCKRANDT d. Bef 1883
. . 2-Lillie May POCKRANDT b. Cir 1878, Cobar, , NSW, Aus, d. 1944, Kogarah, , NSW, Aus
. . +James Cyril WILSON b. 1874, Sydney, , NSW, Aus
. . . . 3-Male WILSON b. 1897, Bourke, , NSW, Aus, d. 1897, Bourke, , NSW, Aus
. . . . 3-Male WILSON b. 1897, Bourke, , NSW, Aus, d. 1897, Bourke, , NSW, Aus
. . +Ernest Arthur WRIGHT d. 1950, Concord, , NSW, Aus
. . . . 3-Jack WRIGHT b. 1906, Redfern, NSW, AUS, d. 1958, Newtown, NSW, Aus
. . 2-Emma POCKRANDT b. 1877, Darling River, NSW, Aus, d. 1894, Bourke, , NSW, Aus
. . 2-Clarence Ernest Henry POCKRANDT b. 1883, Barringun, NSW, AUS, d. 1890, Bourke, , NSW, Aus
I do believe that Henry Gustavus Pockrandt above is the same chap that was Naturalised in Australia in 1914.
On his Application for certificate of Naturalisation he states:
I Heinrich Gustavus Pockrandt of 'Nuntherungil(sic) Station, White Cliffs'
I am by birth a German Subject
I arrived in Australia from Hamburg on the first day of August, 1864 per the Helene and disembarked Brisbane, Qld.
Since my arrival I have resided in NSW for 40 years, in Qld for 5 years and in South Australia for 5 years (this would be where he met my 3rd G Grandmother).
The thing that throws me on whether he is in fact the same person is that he states that he was single and that he has no children on the application! But how many Henry Gustav Pockrandt's could there be?
Oh and on his Statutory Declaration he states his name as Heinrich Gustav Pockrandt, his birth as 5 Oct 1847 at Schalauke in the Province of Po??s in the Country of Germany. (sorry I am just not familiar with the area, maybe someone could help me out here?)
NB Po??s looks like Poses
I have found another family group that appears to NOT be related, however Stephen 'could' be the missing first son in the above group as a witness at the marriage is none other than Averilda Bray who is the grand-daughter of the Anna Maria Bray nee Rowe who Henry hooked up with, I say hooked up with because I have not been able to find a marriage or a death for either of them. However the dates don't match up, he could be a nephew?
I find it interesting that Stephen Pockran, when he married Mary Bowes in 1912 is listed as Stephen Shultz, known ashen Shultz Stephen Pockran (altered from Stephen Schultz) and his mother is listed as unknown. It states he was born at sea which could mean that his mother died on the voyage whilst giving birth. I just did another broader search for Stephen's birth and it appears someone else is doing the family tree as he is registered in the the indexes at last...lol.. I calculate he was born about 1887 and registered in 2005... that is a hoot!
| 181845/2005 | SCHULTZ | STEPHEN | STEPHEN | UNKNOWN |
Following on from my first post I have continued my foray into social networking and blogging. Boy hasn't it been a journey!
So far I have jumped into facebook, linkedin, digg and have even learned about feedburner and rss which always seemed so difficult to me previously, but I believe I have it now, kinda easy actually when you take the time to read the actual tutorials instead of skimming over them.
One thing that struck me, there really does seem to be the same set of people who move around and into "social networking" scenes, each time I joined and then entered my address book it was the same people over and over again that kept popping up. Although I must say I ran across 3 cousins, 1 really grown up and that made me feel even older than my years as the last time I saw him he was a teenager ;) and now he's 23 (well almost). Now this aspect is a genealogists dream to re-connect to people so that is all GOOD. I also came across a couple of fellow researchers that I have been too busy to contact, the opportunity to renew those links is great as well.
While researching about blogging I came across an interesting article by Gerard McGarry about "Nobody Links Out Anymore" which I found at digg, being a fellow drupal watcher I found it interesting, maybe you will find it helpful too?
Well that seems to be a lot about nothing, but I have to get into the groove somehow and it's also reminding me to reference, reference and reference - I hear the echo of my teacher at TAFE there! That is something we family researchers should be doing with every breath we breathe.
