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Im also a descendant of the aformentioned Kelly family.

William and Mary Kelly. The only original source ive found in South Australia was the passenger list that says Queens County.
One issue is a maiden name for Mary... I tried looking for birth certificates in Australia for the 2 children born there. Isabella and William James. Isabellas birth doesnt have Mary's maiden name. The issue for WJ (b1857) is that there are 3 ppl with the same name that ended up in the Saddleworth area.
One WJ born in Clare in 1857 in Clare is listed in some ppls ancestry tree is the right one. However birth records say his mother is Margaret Miller. Whilst Margaret and Mary are at least interchangeable in my Scottish research it seems less likely. The other born Gawler Plains (like Clare is realistic for someone ending up in Saddleworth) has a mother listed as Mary Dunn. I found a marriage record for William Kelly and Mary Dunn in Queens County Ireland. So i think this is very possibly the right people. Also noteable is that in South Australia they were associated with the Methodist church. The Irish marriage was also protestant rather than Catholic. see attached.

Then, ive got my father to do a DNA test via ancestry and this links with several people descendant from William and Mary Kelly as expected. I also searched for the above surnames and didnt really get anything for Miller but loads of Dunn results, again, not conclusive but lends weight to the theory.. Whats very interesting is that there are a couple matches with people that in their trees are descended from a different set of Kelly's. Initially not so surprising given that its a popular name. However i see that there is also a William James Kelly in their family tree i initially thought it was the one born in Clare but this fella was born in 1860 in Adelaide and then had a child Richard J Kelly in Saddleworth. So there are now 3 WJ Kellys in the one small town!
I cant say for sure that my relation to this person is via this Kelly link but i cant see anything else in their seemingly well researched tree that gives any other possibility.
So, theres the possiblity that some of the different Kelly's in Saddleworth are infact related.

i cant see what else it would say. I feel like "work" is pretty clear but less so the second half.

Was just searching in google for the same address to find out more about it... to solve a mystery.
I am looking at a page of that same census and it would seem we are looking at the same page. curious what family you are investigating? For me its Crawford (Agnes, Margaret, Jane)

Thanks Judith, the possiblity of him coming to Australia as a convict is a strong one imo. The good part of that is that there extensive records kept! I saw a while ago some dual name listing for William Goode/Henry Hill... strange. I hadnt looked into it more due to the term being life making it less likely he was out and in Adelaide in time to get married.