Caroline Agnes

My main interest is to document the descendants of Thomas and Tabitha De La Rue, of Leicestershire and Surrey, England, who arrived at Point Henry, Port Phillip District, NSW (now Victoria), Australia on 28 Jun 1849. They arrived with eight children as assisted migrants on the Caroline Agnes, after departing London, 24 Feb 1849, and settled in Geelong, Vic. Two more children were born in Australia after they arrived. Thomas was my great-great-grandfather, and was born in Linghton, Leicestershire on 5 Dec 1808. I have records of 2,030 descendants (including spouses) of Thomas and Tabitha.

Other De La Rue families of interest include:

• William de la Rue of Forest, Guernsey (born 15 Nov 1822), who arrived in Melbourne, Victoria in Jun 1854. He arrived with his two younger brothers on the Saldanha, having left Liverpool in Mar 1854, and settled at El Dorado, Victoria. William married Louisa Augusta Borchers of Goslar, Hanover, Germany on 4 Sep 1867 at El Dorado. Although it seems that most of the De La Rues of any note in Victoria are descendants of William and Louisa, I only have records of 155 descendants (including spouses) of this family.
• Hippolyte Felix Ferdinand De La Rue, of Berck, Normandy, France, who came to Sydney in 1840. This family is documented in A Bunyip Close Behind Me, by Eugenie Crawford. Hippolite established a jewellery shop in George St, Sydney in 1850.
• Charles Delarue of Colmar, Alsace, France (born 1824), who arrived in NSW between 1824 and 1860. He married Emma Hines (or Hinds) at Murringo, NSW on 31 Oct 1860; they had eight children. So far, I have little other info on this family.
• Thomas de la Rue, of Forest, Guernsey (born 24 Mar 1793), who moved to England and set up as a printer. The company he founded is still in existence - see http://www.delarue.com/. It is not clear how many descendants of this family are in Australia, but there is at least one in New Zealand. Although Thomas was born in the same village as William, as yet I cannot find any family connection.

A number of members of the families are also engaged in this research. I am also researching my own 'pedigree' as much as possible - other family names of interest include Kelly, Westwood and Lamb. There is convict ancestry here - the De La Rue family is linked to the Thorowgood family, and the Kelly family is linked to First Fleet convicts Nathaniel Lucas and Olivia Gascoigne.

More info

If you are a family member, you can have access to my complete GEDCOM file here - contact me for password access. This file includes both my family, and the family of William of Guernsey. A public copy of my family's GEDCOM file is available at Ancestry.com. You can view my database here - but you may need to register with them first (free). I have a separate file off-line covering other De La Rue families.

Please contact me for more details. I am happy to put any information on the families here, and your contact details as well.

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