Research

Research reports

This page brings together a range of essays that detail the research methodology that facilitated the discovery of particular episodes in the family's history.

• Carillon Chimes article - William Baker's arrival – My Carillon Chimes article proves that William baker arrived as a convict aboard the Guildford in 1829
• The Baker Roadblock – How genealogists circumvented this roadblock by researching William Baker's brother
• James Murphy's Demise – Proof that James Murphy did not die in 1914 and is not buried in Bourke
• Our Carlisle Origins – My research debunked the old theory that William was a son of Ann Scarborough
• Descent article - Thomas Kessey's Origins – My Descent article debunks the old theory of Thomas Kessey's origins
• The Poulton-Clarkson Roadblock – How I overcame this roadblock by researching a fellow-traveller
• Fleming ancestry DNA analysis – I analysed our DNA matches in an effort to shed some light on our Fleming ancestry.
• Angus Flemings origins – Jim Fleming identified the baptism record that relates to his 4G grandfather, Angus Fleming.
• Lahy family origins – How I identified the origins of the Lahy family (including Bohen and Tobin)
• My tangled Ballantynes – How I straightened out the tangle caused when people with the same surname marry
• The Ballantyne Roadblock – I overcame this roadblock thanks to a DNA hint and good old-fashioned genealogical investigation
• Descent article - The Waples Roadblock – My article on circumventing a Waples family roadblock was published in the March 2019 issue of the journal Descent.
• Finding Patrick Tobin – Jim Fleming identified our Patrick Tobin in a haystack full of namesakes.
• The mystery photograph solved – I describe how I identified the Reed family as the subject of "the mystery photograph"
• 1919 - The Union Hotel
• 1892 - Charles Fleming and the Captain Cook II – About the Sydney Harbour pilot vessel Captain Cook II and its figurehead that was made by Charles Fleming.
• Oral History Transcript