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Thomas Taggart

Thomas Taggart

Posted: 29 Jun 2008 11:12AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Taggart, Dempsey, Paulka
Looking for a Thomas Taggart, who married Margaret Dempsey.
No idea of location

Had a child called Ellen Taggart who married William Paulka and lived in Epping, Victoria, Australia

Re: Thomas Taggart

Posted: 19 Sep 2013 11:07PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi
Thomas ( Mac)Taggart & Margaret dempsey were my Gt G'parents
their Dau Agnes ,marr Wm Burslem 1896 my G'parents

Magaret d of stomach cancer C 1891 in Epping where the family lived .

Thomas d 2 weeks later,he went fishing at his favourite plce ( in epping fell in river ,went home & did not change , he d of pnemonia 2 days later , 2 weeks after Margaret
Margaret was b in Clonmel Tipperary Ireland C 1830 , because of the potato famine ,she & many other girls where sent to Victoria in 1849 stayed Melb hostel 5 weeks then sent to Warnambool
worked on potato fields with other Irish people at nr by Yangery, Thomas was b in cc 1820 at Langholm Dumfries Scotland. soma say he came to Tas as Convict then to Port Fairy worked as a carrier .... I don't ( Ive been researching 30 yrs) there is no proof of this as there were 2/3 Thomas Taggart's or MacTagartscame into Vic at this time. he Marr Margaret in the school house at Yangary in 1850,. by the ? roving Priest from Port Fairy ( the entry is only in the register at the churchin P Fairy) Any other info just ask
Norma gardner
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