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Orange Grove Public School - Play Day NSW State Archives NRS 15051 School photograph collection Flickr Ahnentafel Number 39 Context for discovery: This biography was written as part of the " 52 ancestors in 52 weeks " exercise devised by Amy Johnson Crow.  You can join in too here . The theme for this month is "extending the branches" and for this week is "courting".   Margaret was my 3rd great-grandmother. Her life story is one of sometimes courting disaster, courting to seek affection or favour or to deceive, not to mention being in court. Much of what follows has appeared in previous posts on this blog but has been collated together in an attempt to obtain a more complete picture. Birth Date/Place: circa 1808 Caernarvonshire, Wales (from her convict indent and death certificate) Baptism Date/Place:  unable to find/identify Major World Events/Disasters/Wars etc 1815 - Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo 1833 - convict transportation to Australia peaks 1834

  Isabella SINCLAIR (nee BIRRELL) 1810-1891 Ahnentafel Number 31 Context for discovery: This biography is written as part of the “ 52 ancestors in 52 weeks ” exercise devised by Amy Johnson Crow. You can join in too here.   The theme for this month is extending the branches and for this week “Landed”.  Isabella Sinclair was my 3 rd -great-grandmother. Landed can be used as a theme I think for many parts of Isabella’s life.   Her husband was a fish dealer and no doubt landed many fish.   They emigrated from Inveraray to Melbourne Australia and were no doubt very glad to have landed after a voyage of over 90 days.   Last but not least, I think they landed on their feet in Australia after much hardship in Scotland.    Port of Inveraray   https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ [i]   Birth Date/Place : Isabella was born and christened on 14 April 1810 in Inveraray, Scotland. [ii]   Her father was recorded as James Birrell, farmer, on her marriage record and her m