Today, I’m having a rare half day of research. It’s quite a while since I’ve had more than a fleeting attempt at research. It just occurred to me that I should share my research interests here. You just never know who might be connected to one of my family lines.
I’m not researching every name on the following list right now. I tend to jump all over the place with my research, depending who has contacted my with information that I need to follow up. If I come by a piece of new information about a family line, I usually devote time to verifying it, updating my family files and often heading off on tangents. During 2025, I have planned the main focus of my research to be the Love/Webb line. There are many gaps there that I’d like to work on filling.
Following are my main research interests, listed in alphabetical order and not in order of importance.
BOYLE
Inver, Donegal, Ireland.
Violet Town, Victoria, Australia
CALNAN
Kilkenny, Ireland
Violet Town Victoria, Australia
COX
Steeple Ashton and Bath, Wiltshire, England
Heathcote, Victoria, Australia
GILMOUR
Ireland
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
JONES
London, England
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Violet Town, Victoria, Australia
LLOYD
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
LOUDEN or LOWDEN
Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
LOVE or WEBB
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England
Heathcote, Victoria, Australia
MacPHERSON
Sleat, Inverness, Scotland
McQUEEN
Trelawny, Cornwall, Jamaica
Launceston, Tasmania
Collingwood and Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
MORISON/MORRISON
Glenshiel, Ross & Cromarty, Scotland
Heathcote, Victoria, Australia
Echuca, Victoria, Australia
Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
TAYLOR
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Diamond Creek and Whittlesea, Victoria
Bundalong, Victoria, Australia
Yarrawonga, Victoria, Australia
WATERS
Dunton, Bedfordshire, England
Kyneton, Victoria, Australia
Rochester, Victoria, Australia
Echuca, Victoria, Australia
Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
WEBB
Bradford On Avon, Wiltshire, England,
Heathcote, Victoria, Australia
I invite you to join in by posting you research interests. It would be interesting to see the names and places. I’m especially interested in seeing the places of your research. Perhaps they cross over with mine. If you decide to write a post listing your research interests, leave me the link in comments below and I will share them on Substack and also social media.
If you see your family name and place on the above list, I’d love to hear from you. Leave me a comment below and I will definitely reply.
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Oh if only!! I check everyone's surnames mentioned, and have yet to find one of 'mine' - but maybe one day, eh? :)
Great idea. I will have to think about doing something similar.