Sexton & King
Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2014 4:35 am
Hi All
I posted on here a few years back & received the most wonderful & warm help...so am hoping that somebody can help me with this query.
My GG Grannie....Honor Sexton came to Australia in 1867.....married a convict & now there are generations who are living here. Her parents were Thomas Sexton & Johanna Anglim & she had a brother Thomas & a sister Bridget. Only in the last few weeks, after searching for ages...I have found that Bridget also came out to Australia in 1880....widowed with 3 small children....the youngest dying on the voyage here. She had married a Thomas Croghan & he has died very young. She went on to remarry Honor's Husband's brother & had many more children.
I am now on a mission to find the family of the brother Thomas that stayed in Clare. I have quite a bit of info...he took over the family farm in Frehane Knockanalban & married Mary Mealy in 1869. Now they had a daughter Bridget in 1880 who married a Patrick King in 1909 & they took over the farm. They went on to have 6 children of which one was Patrick Joseph King....known as Sunny? I have seen a pic of his headstone in Kildimo Graveyard & he only passed in 2005 aged 89.
I have been told the Family farm was sold & that his grave is well tended. I guess what I am looking for is any family that is out there who is related to this twig in my tree. I think one of his sisters.....maybe Catherine...married a David Twomey?
Hope this is not too long winded...but hoping somebody recognises these names & can help me get in touch with any family.
Thanking you for reading.
Cheers......Annie
I posted on here a few years back & received the most wonderful & warm help...so am hoping that somebody can help me with this query.
My GG Grannie....Honor Sexton came to Australia in 1867.....married a convict & now there are generations who are living here. Her parents were Thomas Sexton & Johanna Anglim & she had a brother Thomas & a sister Bridget. Only in the last few weeks, after searching for ages...I have found that Bridget also came out to Australia in 1880....widowed with 3 small children....the youngest dying on the voyage here. She had married a Thomas Croghan & he has died very young. She went on to remarry Honor's Husband's brother & had many more children.
I am now on a mission to find the family of the brother Thomas that stayed in Clare. I have quite a bit of info...he took over the family farm in Frehane Knockanalban & married Mary Mealy in 1869. Now they had a daughter Bridget in 1880 who married a Patrick King in 1909 & they took over the farm. They went on to have 6 children of which one was Patrick Joseph King....known as Sunny? I have seen a pic of his headstone in Kildimo Graveyard & he only passed in 2005 aged 89.
I have been told the Family farm was sold & that his grave is well tended. I guess what I am looking for is any family that is out there who is related to this twig in my tree. I think one of his sisters.....maybe Catherine...married a David Twomey?
Hope this is not too long winded...but hoping somebody recognises these names & can help me get in touch with any family.
Thanking you for reading.
Cheers......Annie