Monthly Archives: December, 2016
Kiely family of Edi Upper
My Mum’s paternal grand-aunt Amelia Agnes “Millie” HART married Edmund Wills (or Wells) KIELY in Victoria in 1901. Millie was born in 1879 at Echuca, the sister of my Mum’s grandmother, Margaret HART. They were daughters of Peter HART, originally from Huntingdonshire, England, and Agnes MASON. Millie and Edmund KIELY had 7 children all born …
Knight family Wiltshire to Australia 1842
Update to my post of 29 September about My first foray into DNA for genealogy When Karen told me she hadn’t been able to find Martha KNIGHT’s arrival in Australia I began searching. According to her newspaper obituaries Martha’s sister, my great-great-grandmother, Ann Jane KNIGHT, was said to have arrived in Australia in 1847 from Gloucestershire. …