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Searching for brown family in Queensland NSw

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Gillian

Gillian Report 8 Mar 2015 19:25

Hello I'm looking for relatives of my great great grandparents Catherine Quinn and Peter mcgrady brown. They had two boys John (1926) Joseph. John brown(my grandfather) married Mary mcguire (my grandmother). They have three daughters Catherine (1949) Grace (1950), Anne 1953 ( my mother).

Joseph brown married mArgaret ( Peggy) they have two boys Joseph and Thomas . The family emigrated to Australia on the ship the Fairskye in 1961 on a £10.00ticket they landed in Freemantle Sydney. The father JOseph brown was in the RAF. The family lived in QUeensland NSW.

regards

Gillian SOMMERVILLE

patchem

patchem Report 9 Mar 2015 07:11

Have you got birth years for Catherine and Peter and have you looked to see if any of your family are in any trees on here?

Have you asked your Mother and your aunts as to what information they have about their cousins, the Brown family, in Australia?

Do you know when and where Joseph Brown married Margaret/Peggy, so we can try and find more details about Joseph (son) and Thomas?

Added:
Looks like your Mother was born in Glasgow, is that the birth place for the rest of the family?

Clint

Clint Report 19 Mar 2015 13:27

Hi this may be of help to you Joseph Henry Brown Service number 421958 Pilot Officer No 20 Squadron RAF died 28/1/1945 in Timor cause of death is given as Flying Battle.
You can access these details at www.awm.gov.au this the Australian War Memorial site.

jax

jax Report 19 Mar 2015 14:09

Not sure how this relates Clint if they emigrated to Australia in 1961

Clint

Clint Report 21 Mar 2015 11:44

Sorry got a bit ahead of myself with that I found his arrival in Australia after I hit the send button.
Your family arrived in Fremantle in 1961 their destination is shown as Melbourne in the ships passenger list so they may not have disembarked in Fremantle. i'll se if I can track them down.
Cheers
Clint

Clint

Clint Report 21 Mar 2015 12:04

trying to find your family is proving hard going as Fremantle and Sydney are on opposite sides of the country and Queensland and NSW are 2 different states if you have a year of birth for any member of the family it would be a great help.