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Shirley Ann

My Gr,. Gr grandfather Joseph O'Hear came to Australia before 1861 as that is when his daughter Florence Emmeline was born.  His wife's name was Ellen Storeman They must have had another daughter named Rose Ann as she was a witness on my gr. grandmothers marriage cert. which was at Warragul Victoria Australia in 1890    My gr. grandmother was born at a place called Bombala which is New South Wales Australia  I have searched for years for Joseph and Ellen, I have found nothing so far I am assuming with a name such as O'Hear he was probably Irish.   I do not know if they got married in UK and then came to Austrralia or got married here, I have found nothing in  Births, Deaths and Marriages in Australia   I cannot apply for his death cert. because I have no clue as to what date to look.  My cousin applied for one, but it was not him   Hope someone is able to give me some clues    Regards   Shirley

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Hello Shirley Ann, on reading your query I thought that is never a name but yet again a bit of research shows me wrong, according to McLysaghts book "Surnames of Ireland" it is a variant of O'Hare in County Tyrone, county Tyrone is now in Northern Ireland and part of the UK, pre 1921 all record are common but you may also want to use this site https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/proni ;

If you have a specific query you could open a thread under Tyrone. 

Good Luck,

Pat

St Peters LouthIrelandXO Volunteer

Thank you so much Pat for tht information.,  I will be looking up as soon as I get a chance   I know in Aust there are very few name spelt this way O'Hear, but many that are O'Hare Our ancestor always seems to have spelt it the way I put it.   So that is what we have always searched for, so far to no avail in Ireland and I did see a few with this spelling in England    We also have been unable to find out a lot about him and presume his wife in Aust. either.   We know he ws here as he had a daughter my gr. gr. grandmother in 1862, so we keep searching     Regards  Shirley

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Hi Shirley Ann, I did a quick look at Roots Ireland from 1800 to 1850, very few early ones and no O'Hear returned, mainly O'Hare and nearest variant I saw was Heir, but that is just the transcriber.

Good luck and if you do open another thread mention the religion as it assists in where to look.

There is one O'Hear in the tithes Applottment books, free if you Google, he is Eugene in Faughart, Louth, near Dundalk, think it is in the townland of Lurgankiel which is spelled differently in the tithes, the year is 1827.

There are two O'Hears mentioned in Griffiths Valuation, again free online, one in Armagh and one in Down, none in Tyrone but we are dancing around it, also an Owen O'Hear mentioned in Dundalk in this site, near the Tithes man but in the llate 1700s, they are about but scarce. http://www.jbhall.clahs.ie/ ;

Good Luck

Pat

St Peters LouthIrelandXO Volunteer

Thank you so much

 

Shirley

speake@optusne…

Sorry, just thinking do you think Storeman is an Irish name?  If he married in Aust. his wife could have been possibly English?

Shirley

 

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Hi Shirley, I never rule out a name as Ireland was basically an outpost of England and most of it owned by absentee landlords who often had agents here but people came, the countries are quite close in reality, especially in Northern Ireland and Scotland, 13 miles. I would not recognise Storeman as an Irish name but it is suprising how often they turn up, there is a site here and while subscription there is free usage for some searches,  https://www.johngrenham.com/surnames/ I found no Storemans on it, Griffiths was done from 1848 to 1864 and most heads of house were recorded but some tenement type houses with multiple occupancy may be missed out.

I looked in the book and there is a name Storeen or Storan, the 2nd is still about in Limerick and Galway, (there was a sportsman of that name sometime ago). 

Good Luck

Pat

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St Peters LouthIrelandXO Volunteer

Thanks a lot for your advice, i will follow through

 

Shirley

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