Andrew Hastings Doyle, Convict "Rolla" 1803 - "Hastings"

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I have spent more than 30 years researching my ancestor Andrew Doyle. I have hundreds of pages of references. From his birth to a part-Huguenot family, to his arrest for forgery and incarceration with his brother in the Dublin hulks, to their transportation (with his free family - almost unheard-of!), then immediately freed as a "gentleman", first to the Doyle family home in The Rocks, then on to Baulkham Hills and subsequently to the Hawkesbury. I have recorded the family's forays into the Hunter, at first called "Doyles Valley" and the family's spread throughout NSW and Queensland and beyond in subsequent generations. The town of Narribri was founded by Doyles.
No-where in any original reference that I have has the name "Hastings" appeared. Not in the original convict records, nor in the family notes that I have, passed down through the generations.

I feel the need to request that you cite any original document that uses the name "Hastings", for I have never seen one.

Furthermore, I should not have to remind you of the entry on Andrew Doyle's Geni page "In the preface to his definitive work "The Hawkesbury Doyles" (pub. Illawarra Historical Publications, Wollongong 1992), Peter Doyle (q.v.) states "There seems to be no basis for the claim that the family were connected to the well known family of Hastings Doyle ...... I am afraid this was due to wishful thinking on the part of a member of the family. At no time did Andrew, or his grandson Andrew, ever sign as Andrew Hastings Doyle".

In the interest of Geni being an accurate historical document, I must insist that the name "Hastings" be removed.

Quite simply, it is fake news.
Please take this criticism in the spirit of truth and not some acrimonious point-score.

There was a recent dialogue via messages on this issue.

Could everyone please add sources to Geni.

Yes, I am in agreeance, if it was his name, it would be on his gravestone. I believe Carlotta Doyle added the name to claim some sort of false nobility, in 1934. My mother and I have an article on Ancestry about it, which I'd like to share here, if possible? I've only joined Geni to report this error.

Hi,
Could everyone please add their sources to Geni

Leanne

Thank you for making the change, I have uploaded our article. Cheers, Carolyn

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