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Hi Tomas,

I wonder what has happened to your post which is usually instantaneous. I will be most interested to read it and will check again soon.

Lyn

Hello again James, Just letting you know that I followed up on John Page of Moorfield as a possible brother of Eliza Page. Unfortunately, the transcription of his marriage to Winifred gives his father's first name as Patrick, so we're not on the money. Re Martin Page's sojourn in Cape Town, I have n...

Hello again James, Thank you for your follow-up. You will have seen from my reply to Paddy that I had already discounted the possibility of John Page from Loughrea being Eliza's father. The marriage notice from IAW in 1871 leaves no doubt. As you note, Michael Page of Portumna does sound seriously r...

Hi Paddy, Thank you for your response. You wrote: The island is listed as"Page's island" in logainm (http://www.logainm.ie/en/204259) but, curiously, logainm says "Irish name to be confirmed". The logainm entry includes a most interesting image of a card index entry which says (among other things) "...

Hi Polycarp,

Thank you for your response. I will take a look at the National Archives website for Dr Thomas Page but I would somehow doubt that there is a connection given that my John Page was a farmer.

Lyn

Hi James, Thank you for your response. Eliza Page's marriage and death certificates both record her birthplace as Page's Island (as does family lore) and both certificates list her father as John Page and her mother as Catherine, m.n. Wall. The death of Eliza's father and her mother's remarriage bef...

My great grandmother, Eliza Page, was born in 1833 on Page’s Island or Inisparran, in Lough Derg, Co.Clare. She came to Australia c.1850 and settled in the coastal town of Warrnambool in Victoria. We don’t know the name of the ship that brought her here, but family lore has it that she travelled as ...