One mystery is completely solved. We now have a labelled copy of the 1892 photo of the whole James Beatty family, and yes, the baby is Rupert and Charles Gordon is on the far right! Also the earlier photo was apparently taken in Dublin, which narrows the window of opportunity for the family to have travelled to Australia. Many thanks to Jocelyn, grand-daughter of Alfred Joseph for permission to include her family photos here, and also to the Charles Gordon branch for photos of him.
This is my favourite of the photos Jocelyn sent, as one of Archie’s grandsons looked so comically like him at the same age.
I’ve revamped the Beatty page of the image gallery with all the new photos, and rewritten the relevant parts of the chapter of the story “The Beattys out of Ireland“. I haven’t uploaded the revamped family tree yet but will get there. I think I’ll write a new chapter about the Pagets next.
It would be wonderful if we could get in touch with the heirs of the eldest Beatty, James Paget (Jim) as apparently they have Marcella’s own Bible and the 1835 document appointing her father James Paget a JP! A letter from Janet Godfrey to Pag Beatty listed Marcella’s entries in the Bible. Mostly this was information already known, but included details such as Archie having been born at Kinard Lodge in Enniscrone and Marcella Constance Isobel having died aged 4 weeks at Woolpress Farm, Baddaginnie, presumably on a visit to her grandmother. All this information is now included in The story and will be in the family tree when I update it.
Hullo Sue,
Thank you very much for sharing your expertise for using Word Press for family history with the group last Saturday at the HAGSOC seminar. I really appreciated your help for this very new family researcher.
Now that I am retired I intend to really get into my family history. Your enthusiasm and the resources available through HAGSOC have encouraged me and a whole new world is opening up for me in genealogy.
Kind regards
Helen McCarthy
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That’s great Helen. I hope you’ll find family history research as rewarding as I have. I’m certainly no WordPress expert though. The thing is you don’t need to be in order to get a lot out of it.
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Hi Sue
Thank-you for sharing all your work on this family tree. When I first started researching this branch in 2009 I couldn’t find a lot of information. I am the Great Grandson of Kathleen Marion Beatty and Arthur Victor Browne. In the last 4 years my family tree has now grown to over 600 people. I have newspaper articles, birth and death certificates, wills, etc. Please email me if I can help. I’ll certainly be able to benefit from the work you’ve done.
Regards,
Matt Rotow
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I’m so pleased to hear from you Matt! I tried, but had been unable to find any descendants of Kathleen until now. Do you have other photos and stories of Kathleen’s parents and siblings? Do you know any more about the Beattys in Ireland? Will email tomorrow.
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I AM GREAT GREAT GRANDSON OF WILLIAM BEATTY AND ANNIE LAURIE ?WHO CAME TO HADSPEN TASMANIA IN 1800 HE WAS A FARMER AT HADSPEN HIS SON WAS WILLIAM HENRY BEATTY LAUNCESTONWHO WAS FIRST MARRIED TO EMILY RAWSONSTUARTTWIN BOYS AND ONE DAUGHTER ON HER DEATH HE REMARRIED EMILY CHRISTINA PORTEOUS NEE OXBROW I HAVE ALIST OF THEIR CHILDREN GRAHAMBEATTY@BIGPOND.COM O
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Thanks for your comment Graham. Your Beatty ancestor arrived in Australia at least 78 years before mine did so we are not closely related except for sharing the same surname. Your ancestors came to Tasmania very early by Australian standards. Were they from Ireland too?
Best wishes
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NEW RESEARCH MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS JAMES BEATTY MARRIED TO ANNIE LAURIE HIS SON MY GRANDFATHER WAS WILLIAM HENRY OTHERWISE THE OTHER HISTORY IS CORRECT
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Our Beatty Family came out from Northern Ireland when the potato famine was on and settled in Hadspen Tasmania and was a farmer his son was William Henry Beatty .William and his son Norman Henry beatty were blacksmiths at 243 Wellington street Launceston ,which is now a Doctors Surgery which we went to see 2015 .William Henry Beatty lived at Cleveland street Launceston with his Family Graham Beatty .
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