Following One Name Around The World: tracking emigrants and immigrants
Guild of One-Name Studies Conference 2016
Janet Few https://thehistoryinterpreter.wordpress.com @JanetFew
Further Reading Clement, Christine Migration to New Zealand: a guide for family history researchers Unlock the Past (2014). Coldham, Peter British emigrants in bondage 1614–1788 Genealogical Publishing Co Inc. (2005). Coldham, Peter W The complete book of emigrants in bondage 1614– 1775 Genealogical Publishing Co Inc. (1999). Dobson, David The original Scots colonists of early America 1612– 1783 Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. (1988). Farmer, Kerry Arrivals in Australia from 1788 Unlock the Past (2015). Few, Janet Faith, Fish, Farm or Family? The impact of kinship links and communities on migration choices and residential persistence in North Devon Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Exeter (2009) available at:-
National Archives’ Research Guides, downloadable from their website www. nationalarchives.gov.uk . See in particular:- · Emigration · Immigration · Looking for records of a birth, marriage or death at sea or abroad · Looking for records of a birth, marriage or death in the Armed Forces · Looking for records of a criminal transportee · Looking for records of an emigrant · Looking for records of an immigrant · Looking for records of a passenger · Looking for records of a passport · Naturalisation and British citizenship · Naturalised Britons
Some useful websites American birth, marriage and death certificates https://familysearch.org/blog/en/ online-united-states-birth-marriage-death-records American federal land grants www.glorecords.blm.gov/default.aspx American Immigration www.vox.com/2015/1/12/7474897/immigration-america- maps American newspapers http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov Auckland arrivals 1838-1889 and 1909-1921 www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/ passengers/passenger.html Australian birth, marriage and death certificates www.australia.gov.au/topics/law-and- justice/births-deaths-and-marriages-registries Australian death notices and obituaries The Ryerson Index www.ryersonindex.org Australian female convicts at www.kkgenealogy.com/afcd Australian immigrants http://members.optusnet.com.au/guthrigg/shipres.htm Australia’s Making Australia Home project www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/ migration/home.aspx Australian newspapers https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper Australian transportees www.convictrecords.com.au and www.convictcentral.com British Convict Transportation Registers’ Database 1787-1867 www.slq.qld.gov.au/ resources/family-history/info-guides/convicts British migration www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/bloodlines/migration.shtml British migration timeline www.makinghistories.org.uk/migration-timeline.html Canadian birth, marriage and death certificates https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/ en/Canada_Vital_Records
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Canadian land grants www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/land/Pages/land-records.aspx Canadian national library and archives www.bac-lac.gc.ca Canadian selected passenger lists before 1865 www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/ tocan1400-1800.shtml Castle Garden, American Immigrants www.castlegarden.org Catholic Children to Australia www.cathchild.org.uk Child emigration http://liv.ac.uk/library/sca Child Migrant Trust www.childmigrantstrust.com Cornish emigrants to Australia www.cornwall-opc.org/Resc/emigration_australia.php Cornish emigrants to New Zealand www.cornwall-opc.org/Resc/emigration_nz.php Cornish Global Migration Programme www.cornishmigration.org Descendants of Convicts Group Inc. http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dcginc/frames. htm#top Ellis Island American immigrants www.ellisisland.org Great Migration Study Project www.greatmigration.org/new_englands_great_migration. html Immigrant Ships’ Transcribers’ Guild www.immigrantships.net National Archives of Australia www.naa.gov.au National Archives of New Zealand http://archives.govt.nz National Archives of South Africa www.national.archives.gov.za New South Wales Immigrants www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/indexes-online/ indexes- New Zealand birth, marriage and death certificates https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt. nz/Home New Zealand immigrants www.nzhistory.net.nz/handsonhistory/genealogy-links New Zealand Papers Past http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz Scots abroad http://digital.nls.uk/emigration/resources USA Birth, marriage and death certificates – links to state providers www.cdc.gov/nchs/ w2w.htm?hc_location=ufi USA First Landowners’ Project www.historygeo.com USA National Archives www.archives.gov USA State Archives contact details www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/state- archives.html
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Mary Braund Transportee NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, marriage certificate for Mary BRAN or BRAND and William BRIANT or BRYANT NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, baptism certificate for Emmanuel, son of William BRIANT and Mary BRIANT. Parish registers of Fowey, Cornwall. Assizes 5/144, Gaol Book Assizes 23/8 for Western Circuit, Devon, Lent Circuit 1786. Held at The National Archives, Kew. Andrikidis, P. The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant (2005) Film. Anonymous History of Australia , retrieved from www.eurekatimes.net Australian Dictionary of Biography (on-line edition), retrieved from http://www.adb.online. anu.edu.au/biogs/A010157b.htm First Fleet Online, retrieved from http://firstfleet.uow.edu.au/s_dunkirk.html Queensland University of Technology nd, retrieved from http://education.qut.edu.au/ ~clarkjr/mdb375/WORKSHOPS/ff-tab.txt Barton, G.B. History of New South Wales from the Records , volume 1 – Governor Phillip, 1783-1789 . Facsimile edition Hale & Ironmonger (1980). Braund, L.W. A Race Apart: the Braunds of Bucks and elsewhere The Braund Society (1994) Clark, R. The Journal and Letters of Lt. Ralph Clark 1787-1792 , Sydney, Australian Documents Library in association with the Library of Australian History Pty. Ltd. (1981). Cobley, J. The Crimes of the First Fleet convicts , Angus and Robertson Press (1970) Collins, D. An Account of the English Colony of New South Wales , A.H. and A. Reed Vols. 1 & 2. Facsimile edition Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide (1971). Cook, J. To Brave Every Danger: The Epic Life of Mary Bryant of Fowey, Highwaywoman and Convicted Felon, her Transportation and Amazing Escape from Botany Bay, Macmillan (1993). Currey, C. H. The Transportation, Escape and Pardoning of Mary Bryant (née Broad), Halstead Press (1983). Daily Mirror ‘Lags’ escape from Sydney remains seamanship epic’, Daily Mirror (Australia) , 17 December 1986, p. 84. Erickson, C. The Girl from Botany Bay , Pan Macmillan (2004). Excell, S. Escape from Botany Bay , Sussex FHS (undated). Fidlon, P. G. and Ryan, R. J. (eds) The First Fleeters: a comprehensive listing of convicts, marines, seamen, officers, wives, children and ships , Australian Documents Library, Sydney (1981) Gillen, M. The Founders of Australia : a biographical dictionary of the First Fleet , Library of Australian History (1989). Hausman, G. and Hausman, L. Escape from Botany Bay: The true story of Mary Bryant, Scholastic Inc./ Orchard Books (2003). Hughes, R. The Fatal Shore : a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 , Collins Harvill (1987). King, J. The First Settlement: the convict village that founded Australia , Macmillan (1984). King, J. Mary Bryant: her life and escape from Botany Bay , Simon & Schuster (2004). Phillip, A. 1790, The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay Facsimile edition, Libraries Board of South Australia (1968). Pitkin, M. ‘Escape to Timor’, The Daily Telegraph (Australia), 27 March 1998, p. 40. Tench, W. Sydney’s First Four Years , Angus and Robertson (1961), being a reprint of A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay (1789) and A complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson (1793). Wilks, S. ‘Entertaining tale of convict’s escape from Botany Bay’ (review of Erickson), The Canberra Times , 10 July 2004. 4 © Janet Few 2016
William Braund and the Elliotts of Bucks Mills Parish registers of Morwenstow, Cornwall, Bucks Mills, Parkham and Woolfardisworthy West, Devon Baptisms in the Kilkhampton Bible Christian circuit The North Devon Journal 12 December 1858 p 8 col. c The Kingston Daily News 22 March 1858 p. 2 Letter from John Thompson 1819
Christopher Braund of Holsworthy Holsworthy Parish Registers Family Bible Exeter Flying Post 5 December 1850 p. 3 col. a. North Devon Journal 5 December 1850 p. 6 col. d. Western Times 1 December 1863 p. 3 col. b. Western Times 11 August 1865 p. 7 col. d. 1841 census for Holsworthy, Devon 1861 census for Pyworthy, Devon 1871 census for Brighton, Sussex 1894 directory for Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri 1880 US Census for Kansas City, Jackson, Missou ri 1920 US Census for Wyandotte Gravestone of Harriet Braund
Braunds of Black Torrington 1 1841 and 1851 census for Black Torrington, Devon 1851 census for Bradford, Devon 1891 census for Exeter, Huron County Gravestone of Digory Braund Wooden, J. L. Exeter, situate on the London & Goderich Road in the township of Stephen and Usborne, 30 miles from London and in the County of Huron, C.W.: a history of Exeter, Ontario available online at www.ourroots.ca Thanks to Rob Barnes
Braunds of Black Torrington 2 Baptisms in the Shebbear Bible Christian Circuit Baptism registers for Black Torrington, Devon Thanks to Pam Braund
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