Some genealogy - my maternal antecedents: Farrell, Noble, Ince, Eales, and others.

The Farrell Family

Having completed, with my son James, an investigation of my mother's family and ancestors, I have produced a general narrative, together with an index of names on a spreadsheet, and also PowerPoint slides depicting the family tree.

This narrative history consists of nearly 70 pages, and I have sub-divided it into three Parts for ease of downloading as Adobe (PDF) documents.

	DOWNLOAD - PART ONE		The Farrells. Please download this PDF file for PART ONE of a general narrative of the Farrell family, this Part dealing with the Farrells after their arriving in Australia.
	DOWNLOAD - PART TWO		The Noble family. Please download this PDF file for PART TWO of a general narrative of the Farrell family, this Part dealing with the branch of the Nobles, who were prominent in the 19th century as grocers in Geelong, graziers and property owners.
	DOWNLOAD - PART THREE		The earlier Farrells. Please download this PDF file for PART THREE of a general narrative of the Farrells family, this Part dealing with the Farrells in Ireland and in Australia, plus some notes of family lore.

The index and family-tree show not just our ancestors but also our living contemporaries as well, so it would be unwise to include these for downloading here - for restricted use only. Nevertheless, if anybody would care to have a copy of the data, please e-mail your request to me. There are two files: "Index" (PDF 30kb or Excel 61kb) and "Farrell Family Tree" (PDF 133kb or PowerPoint 136kb). If you were to pick Excel and PowerPoint, you could of course develop and update these as you may wish.

My paternal family - the Thompsons arrived in Australia from north-eastern England where in Sunderland my grand-father, William Thompson had married grandmother, Jane Softley, and with then three children in tow, they migrated to Australia, arriving in 1887. Prior to that, the Thompsons had been living in and around Middleton-in-Teesdale and were mainly employed in the lead-mining industry - a hard life. The Thompsons have already been the subject of genealogical research by my cousin, Barbara Thompson, who has produced a fine, detailed report of us all. In addition, a distant relative, Norma L Smith has written and had published a book: "The Story of a Lead Mining Family - The Thompsons of The Bell, Newbiggin, Teesdale" (ISBN 0 953074 96X) going back to earlier generations, and she finds that our family were derived from "Reivers" (= bandits) who came plundering from across the Scottish border.

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This page first written in August 2010

Written manually in XML by Hugh Thompson.