His wife Margaret Darnell - Prisoner on "Prince of Wales"

Margaret was sometimes known as Margaret Darling or Margaret Dowling.
Owen Cavanough arrived in Sydney Cove with Captain Phillip in 1788.
He married Margaret Darnell, a 7 year prisoner who arrived in the same fleet on board the Prince of Wales, in 1791,
and had several children and we are descended from their eldest child Grace Cavanough.

Maria Carden ABBOT & John Thomas MACDONALD
Pioneers of Port Phillip Colony. 

Maria Carden Abbot was the Grand-Niece of Sir. Henry Carden of Templemore Tipperary Ireland.  She sailed from Tipperary, Ireland on the Sailing Ship 'Branken Moor' arriving in the Port Phillip Colony on 3 December 1841.  She and John MacDonald were married at St. Francis Catholic Church Melbourne 31 July 1842.

Thomas BATES - do we believe all we hear and all we are told.  One of our family stories is that we go back to Thomas Bates who was one of the main characters in the Gunpowder Plot of 1606. (I am still working on this particular story so when I have all the answers I will certainly let you know.) IF YOU HAVE ANY ANSWERS PLEASE - let me know.

John Dickins 1812-1899 First    Slaughterman in Port Phillip Colony, and his wife Catherine O'Brien nee Moloney. Pioneers.