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SURNAME ORIGINS:

SHERRY:

Is this name Scottish or Irish, or both? Nobody seems to be absolutely certain, partly because it  is found in many spelling forms. What is certain is the origin is Gaelic, the derivation being  (almost) certainly from 'searraigh' an ancient word which literally translates as 'a foal'. This  may have been an endearment, or was possibly a nickname for a fast runner, as a secondary meaning  is 'flying or flighty'. The varied spelling forms would take up a scroll on their own, but the  usual examples are MacSharry, McSharry, O'Sharry, MacSherry, McSherry, MacShirie, MacShirrie and  Sherry, but these are only for starters. The surname has been found in Scotland in Skye and Mull,  and in Ireland in the border county of Leitrim, and in the southern counties of Cork and  Killarney. In its varied forms the surname is considered to be the sixtieth most popular in  Ireland with some ten thousand name holders, but is now rare in Scotland. The earliest recording  seems to be the example shown below, whilst other recordings include Archibald McShirrie of  Leattir, Scotland who was in 1635, charged with 'illegal warding', whilst in 1675 John MacScherie  of Dowart was pronounced a rebel, his fate is not known! In Ireland Elizabeth M'Chirrie married  James Morrison at Carmoney, County Antrim, on December 12th 1754, An unusual recording is that of  John Mcsarry (as spelt), a passenger on the ship 'Messenger' of Liverpool, on June 5th 1846, bound  for New York. He was aged 18, a farmer, according to the passenger list, and one of the first of  the emigrants fleeing the 'Great Famine'. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown  to be that of Duncan Glas VcShirie, which was dated 1629, executed for ship robbery in Oskamull,  during the reign of King Charles 1, known as 'The Martyr', 1625 - 1649

On 9th July 1849 the vessel SCOTIA arrived in Sydney. On board was James SHERRY, his wife Ellen  and their children. From Mullagh, County Meath, Ireland they came to escape the famine and begin a  new life in the colonies. Initially they settled in the Goulburn district of NSW, before moving to  Albury, NSW, where they farmed and raised horses. A few years later, Murtagh MEADE,(also known as  Mortimer Meade), a single, 19 year old farm 
 labourer, from Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland, arrived in Botany Bay on 1st February 1852 off the  sailing ship Joseph Somes. He too was looking for a new life away from the grinding poverty and  ongoing famine in Ireland. Like the Sherry family, he too was a roman catholic. Catholics, in  Ireland, felt the famine the most. Hated and despised by protestants, a new start half way around  the world, despite the uncertainty held the promise of a better future. Murtagh headed for  Queensland, to Toowoomba, where within a few years set up a cordial manufacturing business and  gained squatters rights to land. He married Agnes Jane MURRAY ( whose family came from Scotland).  In 1917, his grandaughter, Agnes married John Vincent SHERRY, and thus began this family tree.  Both James Sherry and Murtagh Meade did not die natural deaths. James  Sherry died 4 February  1866, after being accidentally kicked by a horse and Murtagh Meade died in Kalgoorlie, WA,29th  April, 1903,  after 
 being crushed between two train carriages.
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VASS:

This most interesting and unusual surname when found in Britain, is usually of Old French origins.  From this source it is either occupational and a derivative of the original Latin word "vassus",  meaning originally a friend or companion. As such it was also used as a personal name, as in the  recording of Vasse le Poynur, in the Hundred Rolls of the county of Cambridgeshire, in 1275 having  been introduced by the Normans after the Conquest of England in 1066. The name may also be  locational, again of French origin, and deriving from "Vaux," a name of various places in Northern  France. The translation is "the place in the valley". Finally the name can be German, and a such a  development of the pre 7th century word "fas or vas" meaning round. As such it was used as a  metonymic for a barrelmaker or as a nickname. A family called Vaus settled at Lanercost in  Cumberland at the close of the 12th Century, and also in Dirleton in East Lothian, Scotland.  Johannes de Vaus was one of the hostages for the ransom of the king of Scotland in 1174, as  recorded in "Annals of the reigns of Malcolm and William, Kings of Scotland". Robert Vass, aged  nineteen, embarked from London for the New England colony of Virginia, aboard the ship "Safety" in  August 1635, and was one of the early settlers. The first recorded spelling of the family name is  shown to be that of Robert de Vaux. This was dated 1086, in the Domesday Book of the county of  Essex, during the reign of King William 1st, 1066 - 1087.

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............................................................ OLLERHEAD:

This unusual surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is a locational name from some minor,  unrecorded, or now "lost" place called Ollerhead or Owlerhead, believed to have been situated in  the Yorkshire/Cheshire area because of the high incidence of early surname recordings from that  region. The component elements of the placename are the Olde English pre 7th Century "alor", alder  (tree), written as "owler" in many dialects, with the Olde English "heaford", head, used in  various transferred senses such as "headland, summit, upper end, source of a stream";  hence, "headland where alders grew". Owlerton near Sheffield in Yorkshire, and Ollerton in  Cheshire and Nottinghamshire, also have the Olde English "alor, owler" as their initial element.  An estimated seven to ten thousand villages and hamlets are known to have disappeared in Britain,  many as a result of the enforced clearing of rural settlements to make way for sheep pastures at  the height of the wool-trade from the 15th Century on, and also due to such natural causes as the  Black Death of 1348, in which an eighth of the population perished. Recordings from English Church  Registers include: the christening of Robert Owlerhead, an infant, on March 14th 1577, at St. John  the Baptist, Chester, Cheshire; the marriage of Ann Ollerhead or Owlerhead and John Sykes on  December 15th 1588, at Rotherham, Yorkshire; and the marriage of Mary Ollerhead and William Davies  on December 31st 1695, at Frodsham, Cheshire. The first recorded spelling of the family name is  shown to be that of Elizabeth Owlerhead, which was dated October 22nd 1564, marriage to Edward  Spooner, at Rotherham, Yorkshire, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1 known as "Good Queen  Bess", 1558 - 1603. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In  England this was known as Poll Tax.
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THOSE WHO DIED IN WARS:

ANDERSON, James Frederick (1906 - 10/6/1945), Private, A.I.F, Borneo. P.O.W. ANDERSON, John Colin William (1918 - 21/5/1945), Flight Sergeant, R.A.A.F, New Guinea. BICKLEY,  David Ray (1932 - 4/11/1950), Private, U.S. Army. Korean War. BUCKLEY,  Raymond Timothy (1907 - 18/12/1942), Private, A.I.F, New Guinea.  BURKE,    John Edward (1907 - 31/7/1945), Lance Corporal, A.I.F, Borneo. P.O.W. COTTRELL, Arthur  (1893 - 21/8/1918) Private, The King's Liverpool Regiment, France. COTTRELL, Peter Ernest (1884 - 27/10/1918), Private, Northumberland Fusiliers, Tezze, Italy. COTTRELL, Robert Norman (1899 - 16/8/1918), Private, East Yorkshire Regiment, Harbonnieres, France. MCLEAN,   James Edward (1895 - 25/7/1916), Private, A.I.F, Villers, France. MEADE,    James Joseph (1879 - 31/8/1918), Private, A.I.F. Peronne, France. OLLERHEAD,Arthur  (1889 - 5/5/1917), 3rd Engineer, SS Feltria, blown up by a minehead, Irish Sea. STEWART,  Allan   (1877 - 18/4/1918), Sapper, Australian Engineers, France. STEWART,  Thomas Murray ( 1896 - 30/9/1918), Private, Canadian Infantry 72nd Bn. France. WALSH,    Leslie Gordon (1893 - 20/7/1916), Private, A.I.F. 32Bn. France.

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 CONVICTS IN THIS TREE

Michael Carberry - 1832 Ship "Asia"
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