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Guildford Cemetary is not the same as Midland Cemetary ( Midland Cemetary is actually in the suburb of Swan View).
I can't remember but I beleive burials did not start at Midland cemetary until after the 1900'sas Midland was only a small place until the Government railway came.
The current Guildford cemetary is in South Guildford near Kalumunda Road.
There are earlier cemetaries in Guildford that made way for housing and some older burials at the Grammar School of earlier settlers.

Hi all,
this is a long shot but all the information we have and a dead end.
My ancestors were John McDonald and his wife Mary (Ford) who arrived as assisted passengers to Western Australia in 1853 on board the ship Clara.
They came here with children Catharine, Patrick, John and James.
It is beleived they were from Carlow. They were definetly Irish.
John is listed as an agricultural labourer.
All sources say that they were "staunch Catholics".
Mary was probably born around 1808. Not sure about John.
Sorry thats all I have to go on but you never know.
Thank you very much.

Hi I am in Australia and just came upon this interesting McGrath discussion. I am hoping members can point me on where I can get more help. I am looking at my ancestor who was an Irish convict to Australia named Edward Regan Mcgrath (used the name Mcgrath and Regan) Mainly dropped the Mcgrath. I beleive he was the Edward Regan listed and tried in Clonmel in 1851 for cow stealing. He is listed as Edward Regan but on previous convictions also at Clonmel it says(alias Migrath) so I think he used both names. He stole the cow from John Power. Possibly his mother was married twice to a Mcgrath and a Regan.
I have reason to beleive his parents may be Maria and Michael, although not confirmed (either Regan or Mcgrath) and I know from a letter around 1866 it states "Your Aunt Margaret is still in Michelstown yet).
I see Michelstown is close to Clonmel where his trial took place.
Can anyone let me know who I can contact or write to to find out where there may be more information on this person. Maybe at Clonmel prison as he appears to have been in and out for various things since age 14 before the big cow steal. Presumably due to the famine.
It would be appreciated. If it helps he called his children in Oz Mary Briget, Sarah Ann, William, James, Ellen and Elizabeth. He was born in about 1832 which is a match for the prison records.
Thanks in anticipation.

Thank you for this information which I will use to try and find my cconvist John O'Mar who was convicted at Longford in 1850 and sailed here in Western Australian in 1853 abaord the Phoebe Dunbar.