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WALSH James
Birth
Mother Mary MURPHY
Father WALSH James
At OVENS
Year 1843
36901/1843

Sue

    

Hi, Sue and Wivenhoe

Yeah, funny that the family traveled to Bathurst of all places, and James Jr was born in Sydney! Why Bathurst - that was prior to the gold rush???

James Walsh jr got married to Mary Collins at St Alipius, Ballarat 4th of January 1867, bachelor and spinster, his birthplace was Sydney and her birthplace was Galway, Ireland. He was a miner and she was a servant. Both were aged 22. The residence is hard to read but looks like his residence was recorded as Cobble () and she lived in Ballarat. His father was James Walsh (farmer) and his mother was Mary Murphy. Her father was John Collins (farmer) and her mother was Mary Hackett.

Wexflyer - Thanks for the heads up regarding the records in Cork. Re: "Have you tried DNA matching to increase confidence in identifying the location of origin?" My Irish ancestry can be traced to Fermanagh, Cavan, Meath, Kilkenny, Cork, Clare, and Galway.

Thanks, Sue and Neale, for picking up on Alice's possible diabetes, which had not occurred to me. Now reading this from you both, it makes sense because she died so suddenly.

It was just awful that Ambrose had to work at such a young age in the cold night air in regional Victoria. I am sure these stories were common.

Thanks, Sue

Wow, the inquest into the death of little Ambrose was sobering reading 

Each time I read any of the inquests involving this family, they try to do the right thing but are dirt poor. From what I could understand of the handwriting, Robert had a lot of regrets about his brother dying, it seemed like Ambrose was malnourished. Robert even took in that other youngster that cold night, the one he found next to a tree, whose father had turfed him out, who later disappeared. Poor Robert died of diabetes.


Here is the birth certificate for James Walsh, it lists the children and their ages, who is dead, and who is still alive.

Thus far, the earliest evidence I have for Mary Murphy in Australia is James Walsh born in 1843 in Ovens, Victoria.