MY MOST POPULAR POSTS

Here are my 15 most popular posts on this blog, each with over 100 hits, and the number of times each has been viewed.
The Mawbey Family Australia blog began just after Australia Day in January 2010.
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The Mawbey massacre 598
The Mawbey children 389
Mawbey court cases 360
Thomas Keneally & Jimmie Blacksmith aka Jimmy Governor 287
Australian Royalty Genealogy Website 260
Mrs Sarah Mawbey 187
Sarah and John Thomas Mawbey 162
Mawbey/Mawby convicts 138
George Mawbey III - Breelong survivor 130
My Mawbey great grandparents 127
Convict ancestry plot thickens 124
Painting of first St Philip's church 122
Mawbey military service 120
My first convict 116
Online passenger lists of free settlers 106
 

MAORI PRINCESS

THIS INFORMATION ABOUT THE TUCKER FAMILY CONNECTION MAY NOT BE CORRECT. FURTHER RESEARCH IS BEING DONE.

Saturday 30 June 2018

I am sorry to say i am not a descendant of a Maori princess after all.  There was a mistake in reading the handwriting of a NSW BDM record which means the name was wrong.

I have not looked at this story for a long time as you can see, four years. When i have time i will revisit it and provide more specific information.

16 July 2013

Received astounding news from New Zealand last Saturday.
My paternal grandmother's great grandmother was a Maori princess.
She died in Sydney around 1810 and her baby daughter was placed in the Orphan School at Parramatta.
When the child grew up she became a servant and married another one, a former convict.
One of their daughters was the mother of my grandmother.
It is truly amazing to be finding out such things at the age of 65.
I had been trying to trace my grandmother's ancestry earlier in this blog, but had lost the trail.
This was because I could not find the birth record of the baby girl.
Everything comes to those who wait - and those who have a blog so other people can find them!

MY BOOK ALMOST FINISHED

I have almost completed the book I have been working on for the last six months about the extended NSW Mawbey family.
Its subject is the nine siblings of John Thomas Mawbey whose wife and three of his nine children were murdered at the instigation of Aboriginal man, Jimmy Governor, in July 1900.
The book looks at these siblings and the partners and families of those who married, and at the parents and siblings of the murdered woman, Sarah Mawbey.
It provides a clearer picture of who the NSW Mawbey family were, and a social history backdrop to the family tragedy that received international newspaper coverage.

AUSTRALIA DAY

Today Saturday 26 January Australia's national day,Australia Day, is celebrated.
Our history is summed up in a song called I am Australian and this version is on You Tube.
Click on the link to listen and enjoy!