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I was born Annette Marilyn GUY in 1944
at Epping. NSW, the second child and elder daughter of Gordon GUY and
Melva May HARRINGTON. My siblings are Richard, Yvonne and Robert.
We resided at Eastwood, a north western suburb of Sydney until 1956. I
attended Eastwood Primary School and then spent 9 months at Burwood Home
Science High School before the family moved from the Sydney to Dapto, NSW.
My father, a mechanical engineer, in
partnership with his brother in a business in the inner Sydney suburb of
Newtown, decided to sell his share of the company and obtained employment
with the Electricity Commission of NSW. He was appointed to a position at
Tallawarra Power Station on the shores of Lake Illawarra on the south coast
of New South Wales. I completed my education at Smith’s Hill Girls High
School, Wollongong. After leaving school, I worked for the Bank of New
South Wales as an accounting machine operator for 3 1/2 years before
switching to the ANZ Bank at Port Kembla, where I worked for a year before
getting married in 1963.
My husband John MORTON-ALLEN, who was
born in Nowra, is one of seven children of William Horace ALLEN and
Isabella Morton HUNTER. Our eldest daughter Deborah Anne was born in
1964, followed by Jennifer Gail in 1966 and then Leonie Joy in 1968. We
resided in Dapto until in 1972, then decided to sell our house and move to
Queensland. We spent the first three months on North Stradbroke Island
before moving to the mainland and lived at Kippa Ring until 1978, then moved
to Gympie after John gained employment at the Gympie Forestry Complex. We
have been here for the past 23 years and our daughters have all married and
live in Gympie, so we are able to enjoy spending time with our seven
grandchildren.
For the past 23 years, I have been employed
at a local sawmill as a bookkeeper. For the first 18 1/2 years I worked
full-time, but for the rest of the time I have only worked on a part-time
basis, which has enabled me to spend more time researching our family
trees. Nearly six years ago, we purchased a computer to allow me to keep
and record our findings in a genealogy program and to also search the
Internet for Genealogy sites of interest. As time goes by, there are more
and more records being put on the Web which makes them easily accessible to
a great many more people. I have actually made contact with some people
with whom I share common ancestors.
Our research interests cover quite a few
different countries. My GUY ancestors originated from the St. Just
in Penwith area of West Cornwall before immigrating to Australia on the
“Earl Dalhousie” in 1878, arriving in Sydney before making their way to
Adelong where they worked in the gold mines.
We have so far traced our CAPEL
ancestors back to Thomas CAPEL, convicted at Hertfordshire, London in
1824 for stealing a sheep and transported for life. He was given a
conditional pardon, married in 1841 and eventually moved to Goulburn where
he worked as a brewer.
We have traced our German connection back to
great great grandfather, Christian SCHINTLER who was born in Hanover
circa 1831. He immigrated to Australia with his sister Christina on the
“Herder” in 1851. He was naturalised in 1869, also mined gold in
Adelong and died there in 1905.
I still have a lot of research to do on my
mother’s family, but I’ve discovered that our HARRINGTON line
originated from Dublin, Ireland and the LANDREY ancestors from
London. My great grandmother, Catherine Blenner HASSETT was born at
Princes Street, The Rocks. Unfortunately the house where she was born was
resumed to make way for the southern pylon of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
John’s ancestors are also proving to be a bit
difficult to trace, even though his mother was born in Ballingry, Fife in
1908. She was brought out to Australia in 1912 by her parents
James
HUNTER and Isabella McKay MORTON. James was one of five sons of
David HUNTER and Christina Henderson BUTTERS. Isabella
was the daughter of George MORTON and Isabella McKAY. George
Morton, who by this time was a widower, was a mining engineer who came out
to Australia in 1912 on a 2 year contract to install some mining machinery
at the Helensburgh Colliery, NSW. Due to the outbreak of WW1, the families
were unable to secure passage for their return to Scotland when the contract
was completed. When John’s grandmother sadly died in 1916, they all decided
to remain in Australia, leaving many family members still in Scotland.
Unfortunately we have been unable to make contact with any of their
descendants. The MORTON ancestors came from both Fife-shire and
Kinross-shire and the HUNTER’s were from Auchterderran, Fife.
Our ALLEN links go back to James
ALLEN born 1818 in Kent, UK who married Ann DUNSTAR at
Jamberoo, NSW. James Allen appears to have been a convict who worked for a
time for the Ritchie family at Jamberoo before eventually working for
Alexander Berry on the Coolangatta Estate, Shoalhaven.
My aim is to try and fill in all the missing information to complete some of
these generations. If I have any spare time, I also like to sew or do
counted cross-stitch projects although since discovering computers and
genealogy, there just doesn’t seem to enough hours in the day!
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