Colbourn family of Tulla

Dear Leoniel

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out. I have passed your query to our Tulla volunteers. You should be hearing from them soon

Best wishes
Clare Doyle
Genealogy Support

Dear Leonie:

Thanks for your query to Ireland Reaching Out.  If you message me at:  tulla@irelandxo.com, I will give you some of the information and try to get in contact with the other person who is also researching this family.

I look forward to hearing.

Kind regards,

Jane.

Hi LeonieL and Jane,

I also am a descendent of Richard Coulbourne, from his second marriage (m. Mar 1851) to Margaret Moylan.  Their third(?) child / eldest daughter, Harriet (b. Mar 1854 d. 1938) was my maternal Great Grandmother. Harriet emmigrated (alone) to Sydney, Australia, I believe sometime after the death of her parents.

I would appreciate any information regarding my greater family, especially so that I may pass it to my 95 year old mother, who is also very interested and has helped me greatly with information re. hers and her Mother's (Mary Harriet - Harriet's second child / eldest daughter) generations.

Many thanks,

JJ Hay

Hello,

Great to get your message via the Tulla noticeboard. I have a lot of information on theses Colbourn families and I know there was contact between the "Sydney" Colbournes as I call them and our branch, decendants of John Richard Colbourn who was Harriet's half-brother, from Ballarat VIC.  After looking through the Catholic church baptismal records for Tulla I discovered that Richard and Margaret's first daughter named Harriet born 1854 must have died and the one listed in various places as Hanna was actually Harriet baptised March 1859 which tallies with the dates and ages that your Harriet gave.  She married George Smith, didn't she.  True she came to Sydney alone aged 19 and then sponsored her sister Mary Agnes and tried to sponsor her brother Fredererick (who was really James) but he was already on his way.  My parents visited Harriet's daughter Dulcie(was this Vera??) perhaps in the 1970s and we know that my father's aunt Harriet Wormald left money in her will to some of this family.

I've been having a lovely time lately tracing back the Colbourne families in Ireland because a generation before they were in Tulla they were in Cree as farmers, near Birr, County Offaly. Trying to fit the jig-saw puzzle together is a big job as they used the same names over and over. Please ignore the spelling of Colbourne as we spell ours without the final (e).  I have also discovered that a number of other Colbourne's came to Australia from the Cree families of Ireland, some to Queensland (two different Samuels) and others to Sydney, not including the large family of Richard Colbourne and Mary Anne Dinan. If you'd like to contact me directly my email address is leonielast@hotmail.com.  I can then send you attachments. 

Very interested to hearing back from you.

Leonie