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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: merlfitz on Friday 10 August 12 16:35 BST (UK)
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Hi, I am looking for any information on Maurice and Anne Fitzgerald (nee Sullivan) who married in S.A in 1858 and had a daughter Honora but can't find anything else.
Hope to find more please
Merl
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There are these births in SA to
Morriss Fitzgerald and Ann Sullivan
Honora 1859 Dry Creek
Thomas 1860 Dry Creek
Anna Maria 1861 Para
Catheine 1862 Por Gawler
Regards Sue
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marriage
Maurice Fitzgerald married Anne Sullivan 21 sept 1858
groom's father - Garrett Simon
Bride's father - Simon Sullivan
Registered Adelaide South Australia
page 106 vol35
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Hi Chrisane
thank you for the reply that is a help but I heard they had 5 children, I can only find the one Hanora, thanks again
Cheers
Merlibe
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Only a small note to add from BISA
FITZGERALD Maurice- Residence: Upper Dry Gk, Little
Para.
Religion: RC
I heard they had 5 children, I can only find the one Hanora, thanks again MERLBE
Sue 21757 has found another 3 for you ;D
Sue
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Hi Sue
Thank you for finding another 3 children, that is great, do you find any names?
Cheers
Merl
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Merl,
Please look at all the replies on your thread.
Especially number 1 (Reply#1)
Sue
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Hi Sue,
Sorry ;D, I am a bit slow this morning, just need my second coffee. Thank you for that help much appreciated.
Merl 8)
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My resource has a little more....
FITZGERALD Honora
29 Nov 1859
Father Morriss FITZGERALD Mother Ann SULLIVAN
At Upper Dry Creek District Code Wil Symbol A* 18/472
FITZGERALDThomas
17 Dec 1860
Father Morriss FITZGERALD Mother Ann SULLIVAN
At Upper Dry Creek District Code Hig Symbol A* 22/244
A* Amended Record. Clerical error identified and amended. Suspected Spelling errors in names have not been amended. Generally Place of Birth or District Spelling, mother and father entered in wrong columns.
FITZGERALD Anna Maria
15 Nov 1861
Father Morriss FITZGERALD Mother Ann SULLIVAN
At Para Hig 23/526
FITZGERALD Catherine
1 Dec 1862
Father Morris FITZGERALD Mother Ann SULLIVAN
At Port Gawler PtG 28/285
Merl there are a number of news items in the South Australian newspapers on TROVE for a Morris FITZGERALD at the Port Adelaide Court. This would be the nearest court to Dry Creek, Para and Port Gawler.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper
Did Morris have brothers in South Australia?
Cheers
Cando
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My resource has Maurice's father as Garrett FITZGERALD not Garret Simon. They were married at St Patrick's Adelaide.
Maurice may have arrived in 1857 on the NAVARINO or 1858 on the NUGGETT. Both aged 30 from Co Cork, Ireland...[doesn't match the age of the groom though]. Ages on passenger records are not always accurate.
Do you know when and where Maurice died?
Cando
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Hi Cando,
Thank you for your help, and I am not sure if he had a brother or cousin, my gr grandfather was Richard Fitzgerald and I was searching for Richard and Ellen (nee Harty) child Morris some 14 months ago and found that he died as a child. But in that search Morris Fitzgerald m. Ann Sullivan turned up and found they had resided in the same place as Richard and both had a daughter Honora. I am now trying to see if there was a connection between them as they were both born in Cork with a father Garrett. I did find that Patrick Fitzgerald who married Elizabeth Quinlan was a cousin to Richard.
I looked at Trove and I didn't recognize any names. Their was only one Mary Anne that could have been Anna Maria, Morris and Anne daughter but she was married so one would think her surname would be different. Will keep searching through Trove and may find something there
Cheers
Merl
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Hi Cando,
I thought the Garrett Simon was an error as Ann Sullivan's father was Simon. I have found 2 death notice that I think could be Maurice. The last child on list was born in Gawler, but not sure is he moved after that
Maurice Fitzgerald
Death Date: 14 Dec 1895
Death Place: Gawler
Age: 69
Residence Place: Gawler
Registration Place: Barossa, South Australia
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1826
or it could be this one.
Maurice Fitzgerald
Death Date: 27 Jan 1895
Death Place: Piries
Age: 75
Residence Place: Hd of Pirie
Registration Place: Clare, South Australia
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1820
Cheers
Merl
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Feb 1895 death not yours...son of John and husband of Johanna
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0pqc/
Cando
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Hi Cando,
Thank you for the information and I now have a death date, and thank you so much for all your help
Cheers
Merl
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When and where did he die?
Cando
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Hi Cando,
I should have said I think I have a date and it is most likely the 14 Dec 1895 in Gawler, but I am still trying to get a more positive identification and looked up Trove only to find that 1895 is missing. I was hoping to get more details of that Maurices death.
I will keep searching
Cheers
Merl
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Both the Advertiser and SA Register newspapers for Dec 1895 are there ...there is simply no death notice for Maurice FITZGERALD. Not everyone placed notices in the newspaper of the day.
Cheers
Cando
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Hi Cando,
Thank you and you are right not everyone places a notice in the papers, even today.
Cheers
Merl
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I've had a quick search of the cemeteries around Gawler and can't find a burial however many of the sites only have records of headstones etc.
Cando
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death
Maurice Fitzgerald 14 Dec 1895 Gawler
Age 69
Residence Gawler
Registered Barossa South Australia
Page 356 vol 231
and this one
Death Maurice Fitzgerald 27 Jan 1895 age 75 at Piries
Residence - Hd of Pirie
Registered Clare, South Australia
Page 382 vol 224
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Hi Chrisane
Thank you for the information about the deaths I have ruled out the one in Pirie there was a notice in Trove and it is a different family, so Maurice in Gawler looks promising
Cheers
Merl
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Thank you Cando.
They didn't have home plots back then did they? So if he died in Gawler he would be in a cemetery somewhere but may not have a headstone. You would think he would be registered at the cemetery though
Thank you so much for your help
Cheers
Merl
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Hello Merl,
I undertake my husbands family history and would like to let you know that Maurice Fitzgerald and Ann Sullivan are his Great Great Grandparents, with their son Thomas Lawrence Fitzgerald being his Great Grandfather. Would be very interested in corresponding with you.
Cheers Elizabeth