This is the story of Henry "Livingstone" Re Henry LIVINGSTONE: After months spent in Archives trying to trace this man I am convinced that Henry is NOT a member of the James/Elizabeth LIVINGSTONE family. My research on Henry started with a query from Ron and Wilma Livingston of Victoria on behalf of a lady called Cam Chidgey (from NSW) who is a great granddaughter of Henry and his first wife, Charlotte WARD. I thought it would take me 2 minutes to find his birth - and then discovered that there was no trace of his birth on the Tas. Pioneers Index at all. However, when he died in 1912 Henry was buried at Queenborough Cemetery with his first wife, Charlotte, and a lady called Ann DENNING who had died in 1885 aged 74. There was nothing on the gravestone to show the relationship of Henry to Ann but she was obviously significant. After months tracing any reference I could find in Archives to Ann and her many children, I discovered that she was originally Ann HOMEWOOD/HOLMWOOD, alias Ann RAY (after her stepfather, John RAY), and she had been legally married twice - to John ALLARD/HALLARD (1833) and John DUNNING/DENNING (1848). Between 1834 and 1838 she had 3 daughters registered as ALLARD/HALLARD and then in 1840 she had a daughter, Maria, but the father was shown as Henry LEVISTON, although there was no marriage. (We know that Henry was the son of a LEVISTON family who farmed at Glenorchy and he moved to Geelong with his family in the early 1850s). This child, Maria LEVISTON, was also later known as Maria HALLARD and Maria DENNING. In 1843 Ann had twins, their births registered as Henry and Ann HALLARD - born 1 October 1843, baptised 22 October 1843. I could find no trace of anyone called Henry HALLARD after this. However I found the marriage of his twin sister and the births of her 7 children and discovered that, on their birth registrations, she was variously referred to as "formerly HALLARD" (2 of the children), "formerly LEVISTON" (one child) and "formerly LIVINGSTONE" (4 of the children). One of her daughters was also given the name LIVINGSTONE as a middle name. I even found the deaths of several of her children (who later moved to Victoria) on the Victorian Indexes and their mother's maiden name was shown as Ann LIVINGSTONE. Even grandmother Ann, who was the Informant on many of the births of her grandchildren was shown as "Ann Livingstone, Grandmother" on one of the birth registrations - but usually DENNING on the rest. I don't know what happened to Ann DENNING's first husband, John ALLARD/HALLARD, but in 1848 she married John DUNNING/DENNING and had several more children. What appears to me after all this research is that between her 2 legal marriages Ann had 3 children fathered by Henry LEVISTON, including young Henry born 1843 and he used his father's name but he spelled it as LIVINGSTONE (I've noticed that LEVISTON/LIVINGSTONE were used interchangeably in several other families around that time and was no doubt influenced by the Scottish and Irish accents - Henry LEVISTON'S father was Irish). The discoveries I made also tie in with the family information handed down in Henry LIVINGSTONE'S family to his g.granddaughter, Cam Chidgey - that he was born in Hobart in 1843, and that his mother's name was Ann. Also when Henry Livingstone married Charlotte Ward in Hobart in 1864 the newspaper announcement described him as "son of Mr. H. Livingstone of Victoria" and, from contact with his descendants we know that Henry LEVISTON was living in Geelong at that time. I think it is also significant that Henry LIVINGSTONE was a butcher, as were Ann DENNING's 2 stepbrothers, Nicholas and William RAY, and her only other son, Robert DENNING. Robert moved with his wife and young family to Footscray, Melbourne in the 1880s and when Cam Chidgey's own mother (Henry Livingstone's granddaughter) was born in Footscray in the 1890s, one of the witnesses on the Victorian birth certificate was "Mr. Denning". I was very interested in your comment yesterday that someone thought that Archibald LIVINGSTON's wife had a family connection to one of the earlier LIVINGSTONs shown on Eric Mahar's family tree. Archibald's wife was Jessie DRUMMOND, born about 1841. She arrived in Tasmania in 1862 with a widowed Isabella DRUMMOND, born 1821 - presumably her mother, although the relationship was not stated. The passenger list shows them as coming from Fife in Scotland, but so far we have made no more progress than that (the IGI and Scottish O.P.R.s haven't been at all helpful). So any clues as to who might have some information on this earlier connection to the Livingstons would be very gratefully received. Kind regards, Vivien Rice South Hobart Descendant Report for: Henry Livingstone 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Henry Livingstone (b.1843,d.1912,m.Charlotte Letitia Ward 1864) . Charlotte Henrietta Livingstone (b.1866,d.1886,m.Charles Ware) . . Camelia Delphine Firth (b.1931,m.Roy Frederick Chidgey 1958) . Henry Walter John Livingstone (b.1868,m.Florence Scull 1894) . Mary Anne Roseanna Livingstone (b.1871,d.1921) . Selina Hariet Ann Livingstone (b.1873,m.Walter Ryland) . Victoria Emily May Livingstone (b.1877,d.1927,m.Walter Gerran 1902) . Ambrozine Maud Livingstone (b.1879,d.1957) . Benjamin Harry Livingstone (b.1881,m.Lillian Fuller 1906) . 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