When Alma Spinks was born to Walter Leslie Spinks and his wife Ivy Adelaide Caldwell in 1908 her two grandmothers (Rosina Brooker and Alice Clara Harrigan), and great grandmother (Elizabeth Harrigan) were all still alive. Rosina, Alice and Elizabeth were all first cousins.
Alma was the descendant of Mary Wade (2x great grandmother twice, 3x great grandmother) and both her partners Teague Harrigan (2x great grandfather, 3x great grandfather) and Jonathon Brooker (2x great grandfather).
Sisters Elizabeth Willison Wood and Jane Wood were two of Alma’s four great grandmothers.
Edward Harrigan was Alma’s great grandfather and 2x great grandfather.
Alma’s ancestors included six convicts, John Spink, Ann Carne, Mary Wade, Teague Harrigan, Jonathon Brooker and Mary Ann Webber.
Alma Spinks died as an infant but ten more children were born to the family who were well known in the Corrimal area.
Does this family have the most concentrated Mary Wade ancestry?
Vivienne Caldwell
November 2020
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