Looking for info on family who emigrated to South Australia

Waterford

My 2nd gr grandparents and 2 children, left Ireland and via London, arrived in South Australia

in July, 1846 aboard 'The Canton'

THOMAS COLBERT born abt 1816, in Waterford - Marriage place and date unknown.

HONORA CURREN born abt 1821, in Waterford -

Their children:

JOHN COLBERT born abt 1842, in Waterford

CATHERINE COLBERT born abt 1844, in Waterford

The family settled in Kapunda, South Australia and there were 6 more children born to them

THOMAS died in 1900 in Kapunda, South Australia and

HONORA died in 1904 in Kapunda, South Australia

Any info we could find about this families roots in Waterford, would be eagerly accepted. Thanks

IrelandXO member

13 years ago

2 replies

Thanks for your message.

Some resources/sites which may be of use to you are:

The National Archives UK ? genealogy search: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/

British parliamentary papers on Ireland can be found at: http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/9824/eppi_pages/215093

Australian resources: http://familyhistoryresearch.com.au/resources/index.htm

Irish Genealogy: http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/

Waterford County Library: http://www.waterfordcountylibrary.ie/en/familyhistory/

Waterford Heritage & Genealogy: http://www.iol.ie/~mnoc/

Wishing you the best of luck with your research.

Kind regards,

Genealogy support

IrelandXO member

13 years ago

Thankyou for the some new leads, a couple of which I had already tried, but the new ones appear very interesting.

Cheers

Jen

IrelandXO member

13 years ago