Useful links for Australians searching online for family and/or convict history as well as specific links and information for my own family history (for anyone related).

I am researching the following families whose branches end in AUSTRALIA and whose roots began in Ireland, England, Scotland and Europe (i.e. little or no U.S.A. connection). The major names in my research are in CAPTIALS:

Andersen Andresean Bailey Baker Baldock Ballard Barber Barlow Bartholmew Billsbarrow Blackburn BOOTS Bowen Broadhurst Brombeck Bronbeck BUTEL Carroll Carter CHANEY Chiddy CLARKE CLIMPSON Cosier Cox CREIGHTON Cross Farrell Faulkner Flowers Frost Goodsall/Goodsell/Gutsall Gufstafson Gray Harrison Hartigan Haynes HOOTON Hunt Lawrence Lenehan Lindquist Lynn Maher McDonald McCarry McGarry McLaws Melling NORMOYLE O'Brien Oldham O'Shaunnessy Oxenford Pate Reed Reid Riordan Robertson Sherritt Smersall Swain TAYLOR Titmuss TUNNEY Turner Vowles Waltham Wilson Worthington

I have also posted PHOTOGRAPHS both old and new.

• Genealogy.com: Megan Butel - InterneTree
  My Instant Family Tree

• Janet, Mona and Chris Normoyle (45 KB)
  My mother as a three year old with her parents Mona (nee Hooton) and Christopher Normoyle. She remembers being extremely uncooperative when the photos were being taken - and she looks it too!
• The latest addition to the family (9 KB)
  My beautiful new baby - Claire Ellen Butel
• John Climpson Hooton and his wife Helena Chaney (41 KB)
  My great grandparents - John Climpson Hooton and Helena Hannah Chaney. They met in Braidwood where she was born and where he was posted as a young policeman. They married on 10 October 1904. They lived at No 1 Liverpool Road Croydon for many years.
• John Climpson Hooton (5 KB)
  This is a photograph of John Climpson Hooton - my great grandfather and the only son of John Thomas Hooton and Georgina Climpson. He was a policeman in Sydney NSW and married Helena Chaney. He was also an excellent swimmer.
• Dorothy and Janet Normoyle (43 KB)
  My mother Janet Normoyle (on the left) with her sister in law Dorothy.
• Wedding portrait of John Blackburn & Mary McCarry (41 KB)
  My husband's maternal grandparents - John Francis Blackburn and Mary McCarry
• My mother - Janet Normoyle - aged three (23 KB)
  Sulking for the camera - aged three.
• Georgina Elizabeth Denman Carey Climpson (50 KB)
  My great great grandmother Georgina Elizabeth Denman Carey Climpson who married John Thomas Hooton. Daughter of George and Jane Climpson. Born in Hastings Sussex in 1851. She worked as a domestic servant before marrying John Hooton and emigrating to Australia with him and their only son - John Climpson Hooton.
• Christopher Normoyle and Mona Hooton (51 KB)
  My maternal grandparents - Christopher Normoyle and Mona Georgina Hooton. This is their wedding portrait. They were married at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart at Randwick on the 16th September 1929.
• John Thomas Hooton (54 KB)
  My great great grandfather John Thomas Hooton. Son of John Hooton and Anna Hadlow he was born in Great Grimsby Lincolnshire England in 1857 - the eldest of 11 children. He married Georgina Climpson and had an only son John Climpson Hooton. The family emigrated to Australia and lived in a house in Junction Road Baulkham Hills. He taught himself Pitman's shorthand and was also interested in horticulture.
• Mark Butel (17 KB)
  My husband's paternal grandfather - Mark Butel. He is shown here at the age of 15 and a half - the uniform is the 1st Battlion Irish Rifles. The back of the photo notes he was 5 ft 7 and a half inches tall and weighed 9 stone.
• Joan, Mabel, Helena and Mona Hooton (34 KB)
  The four daughters of John Climpson Hooton and Helena Hannah Chaney. From left to right - Joan, Mabel, Lena and Mona (my grandmother). This picture was taken at Joan's debut. They also had two brothers Jack (John Russell) and Laurie and a baby who died shortly after birth (also called John Russell).
• William, David and Charles Robertson (58 KB)
  My grandfather Charles Robertson (on the left) with his brothers William (standing) and David (seated). David is in the uniform of the Shearwood Rangers and was a corporal; Charles is in the uniform of a Private in the 2/1st Lovat Scouts. They fought in the first world war.
• Mona and Laurie Hooton with their grandmother (37 KB)
  My grandmother Mona Hooton pictured here with her elder brother Laurie and her grandmother Georgina Hooton (nee Climpson). Mona lived with her grandparents until she was an adult as the result of a nasty case of diptheria as a child. The doctor recommended she be exposed to the country air and so she lived with her grandparents in Baulkham Hills - now a heavily populated suburb of Sydney!!
• Charles Robertson (9 KB)
  My grandfather Charles Neaves Robertson
• Mona, Tony, Janet and Chris Normoyle (38 KB)
  This photograph shows my grandmother Mona Normoyle (nee Hooton) with her three children - Tony, Chris and Janet (my mother). This photo was taken by a street photographer and shows how once people would dress up to go into the city. You wouldn't dream of going "into town" without your hat, gloves and stockings on!
• Francis John Blackburn & Mary McCarry (41 KB)
  my husband's maternal grandparents on their wedding day in 1928.
• Ada Creighton and Thomas Normoyle (85 KB)
  My great grandparents Ada Creighton and Thomas Normoyle. This is most likely a wedding portrait. As was common in those days she stands while he is seated. Note though how tall he evidently was as he is quite long legged. She was the granddaughter of Joseph Creighton a convict who arrived on the "Tyne" in 1819 having been sentenced for 7 years for stealing tea. The Creightons lived around the Picton, Redbank and Burragorang area of NSW for many years and there is a road named after them in Picton. Thomas Normoyle emigrated to Australia with his three brothers and a cousin from Adare in County Limerick Ireland. They married in 1889 at St Patricks in Sydney. Thomas became a railway engine driver but died at the age of 46 from carcinoma of the stomach in 1912 when their youngest child was only 5 months old.

• Look up the NSW Births Deaths and Marriages online
• 1st in the family to come to Australia? - read more here!
• Joseph Creighton - a convict from Dublin arrived in 1819
• The first Butel in Australia was a ship's deserter!
• Search the Latter Day Saints database here
• Limerick Archives office - where I found my Normoyles
• Claim your Aussie convict or contact someone who already has
• Find an English location on the map here
• My Hootons were from Lincolnshire - excellent lookup service
• Free lookups in English Counties for censuses etc.

Megan Butel
s_and_m_butel@one.net.au

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