Digging up the past on Muttons, Harrisons, Hooleys & Kavanaghs in Victoria and their countries of origin. Plus Bartley, McDonald, McMahon, Kelly, Jenkinson, Neivandt, Devlin, Bagot, Casey and others including the McCulloch family of my brother-in-law, John McCulloch as well as the McKinlay and Meisake family of my daughter-in-law, Kylielita MacKinlay.

My Mutton family ancestors in this tree go back as far as the late 15th century. In Australia and elsewhere, however, there are a number of Mutton families that descend from William Mutton (1730-1796) and Mary Parsons. However, none of those family trees have ever established just who the parents of William Mutton were. My own conclusions, based on first name "naming conventions", the movement of particular individuals between closely located neighbouring parishes (St Clether, Altarnun and Stoke Climsland), instances of cousin marrying cousin as well as a myriad of other minor coincidences, is that there is sufficient circumstantial evidence to point to this William being a sibling of Elizabeth Mutton (b 1731 Stoke Climsland) whose parents were John Mutton and Elizabeth Deacon. Elizabeth's daughter, Ann Veal, married William's son John and their son James married Ann Mutton, daughter of John's brother Richard. The second marriage was definitely a case of cousin marrying cousin and I believe it most likely that Ann Veal's marriage to John Mutton was also a case of cousin marrying cousin.

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