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I was born at Wallumbilla (near Roma) in Queensland and my family moved to Kuraby in the City of Brisbane during the depression in 1931. Dinah and I married we lived in Woodridge (now Logan Central, Logan City) for a number of years before moving back to Kuraby. Our address has changed here over these many years from Kuraby to Eight Mile Plains, then to Underwood even though we are still living on the same land. Well the powers that be were still not finished with us yet so they moved us out of Brisbane into Logan City. We wonder where they will change our address to next?
If you think that we could be related or if you have any connection with the family names listed here contact me at harveyhistory@qldnet.com.au for a Gedcom File
Our Harvey family can be traced back to Brightlingsea in Essex where there was a Harvey family paying taxes at the beginning of the fourteenth century. We believe that the name if not the family came to England with "William the Conqueror. Some Harveys of various spelling were in Southwark in the twelfth century. See the Harvey name for more detail.
The Jones family came from Ireland and we have traced that line back to the latter part of the eighteenth century. Michael Jones & Ellen Forbes came to Port Philip in 1841 then moved to Sydney in 1843. There are no descendants bearing the Jones name today but the female family descendants have extended throughout Australia, New Zealand and perhaps in other parts of the world.
The Forbes family also came from Ireland. Ellen Forbes was born in Queens County but little else is known. Ellen and Michael were married in County Wicklow in an area where there were other Forbes. I hope to have more detail in the future.
The Miers / Myers. We are not certain of the exact spelling but it is more than likely Myers or Meyers. All that we know is that he came to Queensland from the Hamburg area, at or near Altona in Germany and arrived in Australia in 1855/6. The first four or five years in Queensland is a blank but we do know that he had a brother who were to America. James Miers then worked on Rosalie Plains Station and was the blacksmith at Jondaryan Station before working at his own business in Jondaryan. James married Elizabeth Morris in 1864 on Jondaryan Station. Today there is only one known living male descendant who appears to be the last of that family name as he has no children.
The Mewton family were living in the Berwickshire in Scotland as far as the records go. Adam Newton joined the Fusel Cavalry in Berwick. He transferred to the 6th Dragoons in Bristol and possibly served in Ireland. Adam married Mary Bradbury from Tipparary in Ireland. They had two sons, both came to Australia but Adam Newton came in 1837 with his first wife Janet Cummings. He was later Married in Sydney to Catherine Doolan from County Claire in Ireland. His death certificate states that Adam Newton was born in Gort Ireland but that is not so. Adam was born in Perthshire in Scotland.
The Doolan family in County Claire appear as an isolated section of the Doolan family .Our Catharine Doolan was the daughter of Dennis and Ellen Doolan from Ballyvaughan. The Doolan name is now said to come from "The man from Dublin" and not derived from an English name as originally thought. There is a tale from family sauces that say the village of Doolin got its name from a man who escaped after one of the ships from the Spanish Armada was wrecked on the rocky shore near Doolin Point. The other survivors of this ship wreck were all tracked down and killed by the O'Briens who controlled that part of Ireland at that time. Doolin escaped perhaps because he was a slave on the oars and certainly of Irish blood. A nice story but it could be true. A possible relative Tom Doolan and certainly the last Doolan living on the same land that his family owned for the past one hundred and fifty years (near Doolin) was buried in Doolan a couple of years ago aged 92 years.
The Morris family came from Derby and were small farmers in Boulton. John Morris married Elizabeth Maltby from Nottingham. John the eldest son left the farm because it was too small and became a "Lace Maker" in Nottingham. The story goes that while John Morris was on a walking holiday in the Cheviots Hills he met the daughter of a Scottish Lord, Eleanor Isabella Thompson. Her family said that John was not suitable for their daughter to marry so she followed John back to Nottingham where the couple married. So far this story is not proven but we do have a Thompson who was a farmer and lived in Shoreswood Hall. John Morris and his family (with the exception of his eldest daughter Eliza who had married) came to Queensland. John settled on a Farm he called Aspley. This name and farm was later to become a suburb of Brisbane.
The Thompson /Tomson family were farmers of Shoreswood and Shoreswood Hall and appear to have been fairly well off. They have lived in the Norham Parish in Northumberland for a long time but were called descanters by the church at Norham. They had some christenings and marriages performed in Scotland so they may have been originally from Scotland. James Thompson of Shoreswood hall married a Martha Thompson said to have been married in Mordingham but I can not find a record of marriage at the date stated. Banns were read at Norham and a note said the marriage was performed at Mordington in Scotland. Some descendants of this family migrated to Australia and New Zealand.
The Waldron family are from the Midlands, James Waldron was an iron roller (at Stourbridge in Wostershire) and he married Elizabeth Hazeldine. Their son Alfred migrated to Victoria in 1855 on the Sultana with his young family. Alfred chased gold and settled in Chiltern were his first wife (my g-grandmother died along with her new son. Alfred married Mary McIntyre and this family traveled in 1874 to Queensland in a covered wagon and Mary bore a child during that very long trip. Three daughters stayed in Victoria but my Grandmother Emma and Jonathan Harvey followed Emma's parents to Queensland.
My wife's Stubbs family moved from Sussex to the Isle of White to Hampshire then to Deptford in Kent. The earliest families that we have found are mariners, one was a Quarter Master on a Revenue Cutter at Freshwater. Then shopkeeper at Portsea. William Henry Stubbs(Dinah's g-grandfather) married Louisa Barton and they moved to Deptford. Their son Walter Henry Stubbs married Elizabeth Cockle. In 1914 Walter Henry Stubbs joined up and went to WW1. He was killed on the Somme just three weeks before the war ended leaving a wife and three young sons.
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