• The Railways was the occupation of our ancestral lineage for the Egans - Michael, who was engaged in layer down rail tracks and was a Ganger, Patrick, who drove Steam Locomotives,  and Allan, who became manager of Freight.

• The land and land improvement by dairy and fowls and general farming was the common occupation of the Carver, Putlan, Ryan and Luck families.

 "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous"
quote Confucius (551-479 BC) ~reformer~

Egan - Luck - Ryan ancestry

The earliest known patriarchal line of immigration arrivals in Australia, was Bridget Lynch and her six children who disembark in the port of Sydney, NSW in 1859 with six children including her son Michael Egan who married Jane Donohoe of Donohoe-Pearson linage from county Ulster, Northern Ireland. Bridget and son, paternal fore-father took up residence in Campbelltown, NSW, also Scone, Fish River, Junee and Albury. Their forefathers were from Counties Clare and Tipperary, Ireland and DNA records suggests  they were there from Norman times~ 12th. Century.
Egan ancestral motto: "With fortitude and prudence" 

On my maternal side, we are related to families from Middlesex, Sussex, Durham, Somerset, Yorkshire and Lancashire counties of England and the earliest known arrival was Benjamin Carver (convict) and Sarah (Dibbs - free settler) on the ship "Royal Admiral" of the fourth fleet and they disembarked and were immediately married in St. Phillips, Sydney town in 1792, placing Benjamin in custodianship of his fiancée with all the attached promise and responsibility, which he fulfilled over the following thirty years.

The Ryan ancestral motto: "death before dishonour"

The Latin motto ”Malo More Quam Foedari', when translated, means ~ 'I would Rather Die than be Disgraced'.

In the course of research, it is inevitable and desirable that, names of previously unknown relatives are discovered. This may occurs, through message boards or existing discussion groups, associated with ancestry websites. There follows a series of emails, phone calls and occasionally in person meetings and these can be very stimulating and productive exchanges, particularly when original photographs and records are made available. There have been significant contributions made by relatives and friends in this work and their citation have been noted with their family link in the relevant places. My information is in many parts sketchy and in some parts questionable or fanciful, so I acknowledge there may be a lack of evidence leading to erroneous information presented, so please read these pages of my notebook with healthy scepticism and make further enquires to gain better insight. 

For more on the author's ramble in history and research on ancestors, follow the link "Why?"

Notes on an evolving methodology  

In acknowledging the many shortcomings in my writing, note the stories presented, require standardised system for citation a d referencing sources of information; furthermore, a methodology for covering all avenues of research.

 Please consider contribution your own stories and information that may help clarify mutual understanding of the records and persons.

 I found the names of certain persons to be intriguing, particularly  as their vague ancestral relevance unfolded the journey of a common name, across many seas of trade routes of the 16th. - 18th. centuries. Particular names became leading figures in discovery of new chapters in history and furthered my interest in colonial developments. Two such name were John Carver and James Stormont.

Tales or Myths associate to Certain Names

Refer:

There has been no evidence found which suggest this John Carver may have ties to our ancestral line via Reverend John Carver (1733-1797) of Bedfordshire and assumed father to the highwayman Benjamin Carver. 

John Carver (circa. 1672-1724 Royal factotum in Africa and his daughter Mary, aka Lady Dudley and Ward, plantation owners and mining shareholders of the Caribbean - Granted Royal Charter 1672,  Royal Africa Company (RAC), aka. Guinea Company which traded on the Guinea Coast, West Africa an area of Gambia to the mouths of the Niger. The RAC was established in the early 1660s trading in gold and ivory, but later was primarily engaged in the slave trade.

The RAC person, John Carver has been omitted in the main text, while his life and heirs captured my interest and were explored in some depth for his story illustrates the trade routes of the British East and West Indies companies, so important in colonising Australia and setting the foundation for the Empire tha followed. I chose to write this up in separate notes and the section “Who are the Britians?”.

Numerous records held by Public and Private Authorities are available online and at all levels of Government, Church, institutions, Historians and enthusiastic amateurs the world over, are processing the conversion of historical records for online access. The study of both history and the roles our ancestors played is found when compiling stories and online editing of information was my prefered way of making notes on research available to all and in making a connection with others who are important in creating this site. This includes:

DNA matches as provided through laboratory tests today, may provide a general social factor parameter ~ a community standard, recognizable in certain regions ~ rather than providing us with real genetic factor related to our ancestors. Consider the results may not be specific to you. It is not an inherent biological genetic quality, that can traceback, your heritage, beyond 4 generations. Furthermore Mitochondrial DNA is passed on only along the maternal line. Thereby beyond your parents, the amount of DNA you inherit from ancestors is not necessarily a neat statistical formula, such as:

25% from each grandparent, (2 generations)

• 12.5% from each great-grandparent,(3 generations)

• and 6% from Great Great grandparents, (4 generations)

• 3% (5 generations)

• 1.5%, (6 generations)

• 0.75%, (7 generations)

Numeric Pedigrees ~ even over 500 or 1,000 years ~ cannot be verified by such tests. Your DNA match may resemble that of regions near your ancestors' homelands and not relate to DNA from their specific country.

•  Such statistical assumption is that any common ancestor of those tested, must be within three generations (great-grandparents) or perhaps four generations (great-great-grandparents) — otherwise, it is not significant. If we have to go back farther to find a common ancestor, then it could be assumed that we are not actually related. 

• You may not have inherited certain DNA because DNA inheritance appears to be random and at most, only half of someone’s DNA can be passed down.

Extract referenced: <https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Unexpected-Ethnicity-Results>