Hello Everyone
I'm a new subscriber to this list. Hope someone out there connects in some
way. My particular Calnan family traces back to William CALNAN b Abt. 1829,
Kilkenny, Ireland ( Kilkenny is an unusual location to find a Calnan, I
know, but all the birth certificates for his children are consistent as to
where William's native place was). He married Ellen Boyle in Melbourne,
Victoria in 1849. They eventually had eleven children (including my
grandmother, Phoebe Sophia). The family was located in Violet Town,
Victoria, it seems permanently, from 1860 on; William had a farm a couple of
miles out of town on the Murchison road.
There is a second Calnan family ( that of Charles CALNAN and his wife
Margaret HOGAN) in Victoria that seems to have settled in the area around
Avoca, Talbot, Amherst around the same time. Its an open question as to
whether William and Charles were brothers.
As I said, hope someone can help with all of this.
Is there a cache of past postings to this list anywhere?
TIA. Mike Skurrie, Victoria, Australia