Includes biographies for Lydia Farrell and the Higgins, Seymour, Campbell and Ryan families. Also Boyd, Hoare, Love, Herbert, Foley, Jackson and many others.
Higgins Family - Lydia Farrell (convict) & Robert Higgins (Sergeant NSW Corps)
These are the facts about this
family from the records.
1. Lydia Farrell & Robert
Higgins only had four children - Mary, Elizabeth, John & Sarah. Their
births are not recorded but musters and census records provide details and
ages.
2. Mary Higgins (1795 - 1867) was not born on
Norfolk Island. (The 1828 NSW Census records her age as 33 years) The Mary Higgins recorded in the Norfolk Island Victualling
Book was a convict from the Lady Juliana who was at Norfolk Island from
7 August 1790 until 3 September 1808. She was not related.
Mary Higgins married Thomas Seymour (Admiral Gambier
1811) on 15 March 1814 at Parramatta. (NSWBDM 1814 1604 3A) They had
seven children. From about 1830 she lived with William Ryan (Surrey I (2) 1816) They had four children. They were not married. (The Mary A Higgins who married
a William Ryan in 1866 at Albury is not related. She was the daughter of David
Higgins and his wife Mary and was born in 1840. (NSW BDM 294 61/1840)
4. There were nine convicts named
James Higgins. None of them are related and they appear in the musters and
census records with their details. There are no birth records in NSW in the
early 1800s for a person of this name.
5. There is no evidence of the
name Blair in relation to Lydia Farrell. In all her documentation in England
and Australia she is only recorded as Lydia Farrell.
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