Genealogy Chat

Hi Tempest
Thanks for your reply. Do I have to join Ancestry? Or can I just view? I have already joined another site to build my family tree as I found it so difficult on Genes etc to print. Why can't we view marriage certs on this site? You must have been doing this for sometime as you seem to know your way around so well! I seem to be getting a connection going back to Kent re: liscensed vitualler so will keep going -onwards and upwards!
Thanks again.
Doreen

You're welcome,

I think you have to be a member to view the records on ancestry, but they offer 14 day free trials, you just need to cancel your credit/ debit card before the end of the 14 days if you don't want to be a paying member.

I am still learning. A lot of the tips I've learned through the members on here who are great at sharing tips, links to sites and advice.

For searching for birth marriage and deaths and census stuff, I personally mainly use "ancestry" and "find my past". I keep my "up to date" tree on Ancestry and copy it to this site periodically.

to print off my tree I imported it into a software package called "family tree maker" which often comes with a free subscription to ancestry

My family information about Castle Cary is that there was a mass migration after one member of the Colley family - William Colley, was sentenced to death at Taunton Assizes, for stealing £200 in Promisory notes from a William Francis. I have a copy of the brief mention in the local newspaper

His Sentence was commuted to Transportation for Life in Australia.
He went out on a ship called "Claudine II" arriving in December 1829, and was sent to work on a small holding called "Cliefden" in the Wellington Valley - I've confirmed this with the descendants of the owners of Cliefden, who have a list of convicts working there.
William received a "Conditional Pardon" and then I "lost" him. Maybe he went to the goldfields!

My more recent interest in the Colley family is William Joseph Colley b.circa 1831/2 "Bath" (Census information), my Gt. grandfather, and believed to be the son of Joseph Colley, Barge Captain, Nr. Hanham Mills, and Maria (1851 info)
It is possible that this Joseph and Maria emigrated to the area of Sydney called Campertown.

It has been suggested that the original Castle Cary Colley, was another William, Master at Arms - Cary Castle. Nobody seems to have any proof of this

Veronica

It might be worth sending a private message to Doreen by clicking on her name.

As it has been almost two years since she posted , she may not be looking in now