29 April 2021:150 years since the birth of Emily Jane Carroll (nee Hookeywin)
I couldn't let today pass without letting my Cahill/Carroll cousins know that it was a significant day for the family of James and Eliza Cahill being the 150th anniversary of the birth of their daughter-in-law Emily Jane Hookeywin. Emily was born on 29 April 1871 near Narrandera to Thomas and Ann (NSW birth registration 18540/1871) . Emily first entered my family history when I was researching my AncestryDNA match with "ER" as part of my search for what happened to the siblings of Agnes Cahill, my great-grandmother. You can read about how I unravelled my match with "ER" HERE. Agnes's brother Thomas had changed his family name (or it had been changed for him). He and his family were known as Carroll. After researching a photo on ancestry.com, I found the article about Emily published in the Koori Mail on 24 October 2007. Emily and Thomas had married in 1907 in South Grafton (NSW marriage registration 7676/1907) . I've had a ...