Re: Dryden (Dridan) family in Australia 1840
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Re: Dryden (Dridan) family in Australia 1840
janet king 9/14/04
Thanks Janet. I have Scottish Databases to search.
I have traced Mary Anne Gillard from when she arrived in South Australia to when she died. She had quite a few children to a number of different men. She had children to a man named George Sheffield in the 1840's in Adelaide. She wasn't married to him and when the girls from this relationship got married their father's name is listed as being George Dryden(Dridan) not Sheffield. Mary married a man by the name of John Cook in the 1850's in Adelaide and on the marriage registration she is named as Mary Anne Dridan widow. What happened to Mr Sheffield I am not sure.
John Cook passed away and Mary Anne then remarried a Mr William Adam's. Mary Anne died in 1903 aged 84.
My great grandfather John Dridan left Adelaide with his brother Josiah to chase the gold rush in Victoria in the 1850's. He settled in Amphitheatre in Victoria while Josiah returned to Adelaide in the 1860's.
The Gillard family appear to have come from Crowan in Cornwall, Where and when Mary Ann married a Dryden in England is the puzzle I have to solve. If she was indeed married. Possible that she wasn't. I should then be able to find the birth of John in the 1830's in England.
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