So the prompt this week is Favorite Name. What is your favorite name in your family tree? One that makes you smile? Or an unusual one.
Unlike other weeks, I didn't have an initial thought when I read the prompt. Usually I see the prompt and know exactly what I want to write about.
I guess my initial thought is my great-great-great-great grandmother. Her name according to records is Ellen Hughes Byrne McEvoy Edwards. The reason I first thought of her was that I don't know her parents. I don't have any record of her before she was sent to Australia.
I have her on the Ship Asia in 1830. She was initially sentenced to 7 years for stealing butter to provide for her kids.(no record if that is one child or two). I can find a request that she made once in Australia to be allowed to marry again. (It was denied). I can also find her official release paperwork.
She was married to my great X 4 grandfather, Robert Edwards in 1832.
So why is this so difficult? I don't have any record of her in Ireland. No birth records, no census (too early) or christening forms. I don't even know her maiden name. I assume Hughes, but I don't know. I have a date range for her birthday, but nothing more.
She came over to Australia with at least one son, whose surname was McEvoy. So did she marry in Ireland? Did she marry more than once?
No records of this at all.
I wish I could find even just one. I would love to find her parents, siblings, etc.
So thats the story of Ellen Hughes Byrne McEvoy Edwards.
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