These are people who for one reason or another have enriched our family (or at least put some zing in our research lol)

EAT, Isaac
The details around Isaac's death are interesting, though rather patchy in detail. A resident of Yankalilla in South Australia, he took his wife and family to the goldfield of Victoria. Quite a feat in itself - he had 12 children, although at least one of them was married by then, most would have still been only young. While in Bendigo, he died and his grief stricken wife Eliza (who was heavily pregnant) gathered up the family and with two bullock teams returned with Isaac's body to Yankalilla, where he was buried.

HISCOCK / BROWN
An intriguing mystery here. My first encounter was when I looked for the marriage of my ggg grandparents George Brown and Elizabeth Jane Mannell. I was unable to find a marriage under Brown, but found a listing for the right date for Elizabeth Jane Mannell and George Hiscock. I then found the birth of there first born Eliza, who I had been unable to locate, also registered as Hiscock. Around the same time as this name change, the family moved from Sydney, NSW, Australia to the Newcastle area. I assumed that something had happened that might have brought some shame or embaressment to the family, hence the name change and move. Later though, while looking in the register of an old graveyard in Maitland (George and Elizabeth had settled in the area), I found a listing for William and Elizabeth Brown, who were the right ages for George's parents. I made a note, but at the time was unable to confirm that they were indeed his parents. Since then, I have found that they are his parents and they had actually started using the name Brown some 10 years before George had used it. What's more most of George's siblings married using the name Brown. This alone was cause for interest, but it goes beyond that even further. Some of William and Elizabeth's children born in England are listed in the Vital Records as being Hiscock OR Brown. So a true mystery as to the reason behind the change, something that I may or may not one day work out.

MULLEN, John
When I first started searching the internet for information on my family, I found a site which listed Irish convicts. Among those listed was a John Mullen who was transported from Sligo, Ireland to Australia - his sentence - 10 years for sheep stealing. The age and origins of this John Mullen matched what little info I had on my gg grandfather John Mullen. Since resuming my genealogy research just recently, I have been unsuccessful in finding a listing anywhere for a convict called John Mullen. As I still have no further information on this ancestor, it is possibly that they were the same person, but something that will have to be researched in more detail.

TOLEDANO, Moses
Born into a Jewish family, Moses and his brother Abraham (both circus clowns) used an anglican version of their name and were known as Mac and Alec Daniels. The name stayed and Moses appears on the 1881 census as Moss Daniels.