Researching Cassandra Pybus
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 890 people with the Pybus surname? In that year Pybus was ranked number 2695 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Cassandra means "Prophetess" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Cassandra Pybus on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Cassandra Pybus and the Pybus Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Pybus Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Pybus family tree.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 798 people with the Pybus surname in the UK? Pybus is now ranked number 3292 for popularity in the UK. |
Pybus Genealogy Databases
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Some Famous People called Cassandra Pybus
Cassandra Pybus
Cassandra Jean Pybus (born 29 September 1947) is an Australian historian and writer. She is a former professorial fellow in history at the University of Sydney, and has published extensively on Australian and American history.
Pybus was born in Hobart, Tasmania and educated at North Sydney Girls High School and the University of Sydney. Her mother, Betty Pybus, was a pioneer of women's health in Sydney and Tasmania.
From 1989 to 1994, Pybus was editor of the literary magazine Island. She won the Colin Roderick Award in 1993 for Gross Moral Turpitude, a re-examination of the case of Sydney Sparkes Orr, a Northern Irish academic who became embroiled in a scandal involving a relationship with a student whilst working at the University of Tasmania. In 2000, she won an Adelaide Festival Award for Literature for The Devil and James McAuley, a biography of the poet James McAuley.
Pybus was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 for outstanding contribution to Tasmanian and Australian literature and education.
In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Nonfiction Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards for Truganini and for the Nonfiction prize at the 2021 Indie Book Awards as well as the 2021 Biography book of the year at the Australian Book Industry Awards with Truganini. In August 2021 she won the National Biography Award with Truganini, while in November 2021 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
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