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From: "David Webb & Savi Fernando" <>
Subject: [AUS-TAS-SURNAMES] Field, Thompson & Burnett
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:53:09 +0100
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Well, I have just realised that this is the one list that I didn't send this
query to, so I may as well add to the roll call now

We have hit one of those famous brick walls with locating Harriet Field b
abt 1853 in Oatlands, Tas. (Family records however say that she was born in
1850 in New Norfolk). I have found the following entry for her
http://pioneers.tased.edu.au/taslink3.asp?ID=134881, but this states that
details are taken from private research not available to the Archives Office
of Tasmania. We have the birth certificate of a daughter (born in Victoria),
and this states that Harriet was born in Oatlands Tas, and was 29 in August
1882. She married George Thompson in Jerusalem, Tasmania (now called
Colebrook). However, we are struggling to find any proper record so far of
her birth.

We know that the Thompson family moved quite a bit through the birth of
their children. We think that they were in Tas around 1886 when Harriet's
mother died. And it is this lady that we are most interested in. We think
Harriet died in NSW in 1938, but the NSW BDM indexes only give her father's
name as Daniel Field. No Mother's name given. (maybe the death certificate
will give more information).

Family stories have led us to believe that the lady in question is Margaret
Burnett (or Barnett), an Irish convict who was sent to Aus during the potato
famine and worked for a Mr Field. Unfortunately, no record has been found of
a convict of this name. even stranger, the marriage between Daniel Field and
a Catherine Farrell has been found, matching a few other facts that we
have - minus the birth of Harriet.

We have got a few more details, that may or may not help, and others have
been helping us to search - with no concrete leads so far, so please tell us
if you have any suggestions for us

Savi and David


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