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Australia / Re: Hiding in Tasmania
« on: Saturday 08 March 25 03:40 GMT (UK)  »
As a born and bred and still current resident of the New Norfolk district I can say the surnames Hay, Bradshaw and Eiszle were well established family names even in the 1910's and unlikely to be used as alias' or pseudonyms. Everyone knew everyone...

If it was Mr A Russell mentioned in the June 1911 Bryn Estyn fire article it was perhaps Albert John Henry Russell who had a son Kenneth born in 1909 and might have been the child got out by his wife Elsie -  https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/RGD33-4-28/D9ADEE3C-FE77-4C57-A71E-7212DDC65BB (his brother Keith was born at Bryn Estyn in 1913 - https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/NamesIndex/2112501)

Lots of families passing through the district in that time period for seasonal work be it for hop tying, hop picking, small fruit picking you name it. Isaiah and Christina may have been such and perhaps were staying with one of the families mentioned in the fire articles but not necessarily getting a mention in papered articles...   

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Australia / Re: Looking for parents of Arthur John Hughes. .
« on: Friday 13 September 24 13:17 BST (UK)  »
I'd be laying odds that Catherine Elizabeth Matthews was Arthur John's sister... I guess getting the 1878 marriage certificate would be the only way to find out and perhaps crack a solution...

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Australia / Re: Looking for parents of Arthur John Hughes. .
« on: Friday 13 September 24 13:13 BST (UK)  »
Another possibility though probably stretching?? There was a Catherine Elizabeth Hughes born in 1850 at Carnarvon (old name for Caernarfon in Caernarfonshire, Wales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caernarfonshire) Arthur's death certificate said he was born in Wales and his father was Robert, a soldier?

The Catherine Elizabeth Matthews who died in 1929 would have been born circa 1851? Could there have been some legitimacy to the claim of being born in Wales? There were certainly British Regiments going through Caernarfon in the 1850's? Even stationed there?

As I say long shooting but another thought?? ???

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Australia / Re: Looking for parents of Arthur John Hughes. .
« on: Friday 13 September 24 12:50 BST (UK)  »
Perhaps because that's where William Curtis died...  ;) - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13421332

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Australia / Re: Looking for parents of Arthur John Hughes. .
« on: Friday 13 September 24 11:45 BST (UK)  »
The other Catherine Curtis marriage that peaked my interest was the in 1878 to John Matthews -

Registration Number 1259/1878
Groom's Family Name MATTHEWS
Groom's Given Name(s) JOHN
Bride's Family Name(s) CURTIS
Bride's Given Name(s) CATHERINE
District Sydney

Funeral notice for Catherine Matthews appears in the newspaper in 1929 -

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16522061?searchTerm=matthews

Sydney Morning Herald 6 Jan. 1929

MATTHEWS.-The Relatives and Friends of Mr. JOHN MATTHEWS are kindly Invited to attend
the Funeral of his late beloved WIFE, Catherine Elizabeth; to leave her late residence, 11 Mount-street,
Pyrmont, THIS TUESDAY, at 1 p.m., for Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood, via Mortuary Station.

NSW death index gives little info -

Name MATTHEWS CATHERINE E
Registration Number 63/1929
Father's Given Name(s) 78 YEARS SYDNEY
Mother's Given Name(s)
District SYDNEY

Find A Grave -

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189180116/catherine-matthews

I'm not certain what details would be in the 1878 marriage certificate? Some sources says details can be hit and miss in these 1860-1870s certificates? If it contained her birth place and parents then might be well on the way to solving Arthur John Hughes origins?


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Australia / Re: Looking for parents of Arthur John Hughes. .
« on: Tuesday 10 September 24 09:16 BST (UK)  »
I helped Jean with this query in another forum. One possible clue was the witness to Arthur's marriage to Margaret Farquhar, Catherine Elizabeth Curtis. She may have been the Catherine Elizabeth Hughes that married William Curtis in 1868 in Hobart -   https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/RGD37-1-27/RGD37-1-27P94 There is a marriage notice in the Mercury newspaper - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8855814?searchTerm=catherine%20elizabeth%20hughes So this Catherine may possibly be Arthur's sister? I could find nothing about Catherine Elizabeth or William Curtis beyond their marriage? Looked in all the resources that I could think of...

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Australia / Re: BOURKE family Tasmania
« on: Friday 24 November 23 01:32 GMT (UK)  »
Found Elizabeth Bourkes baptism in 1853 at St Joseph's Catholic Church in Hobart. Note sponsors were Dennis Galvin and Norah Ryan. (Interestingly Norah Ryan was a witness to my own Great Granparents wedding at St Peters in 1854 anfd her own marriage is on the same page  ::) - https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD37-1-13p492j2k )

St Peter's Catholic New Norfolk didn't start baptism's until 1857.

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Australia / Re: BOURKE family Tasmania
« on: Friday 24 November 23 01:12 GMT (UK)  »
In Thomas Burkes and Ann Macnamara's marriage certificate from 1852 it says both of them are "free"? In Thomas' case that could mean a free arrival or a convict that has served his sentence and has a certificate of freedom. If FS had been on the certificate it would assuredly mean he'd been a convict? Ann Macnamara's age is 17 so even with the common 7 year sentence she would have only been 11 when sentenced and there no trace of a convict that young under that age?

Dennis Galvin was a witness at their marriage and he appears in a local police register for Ticket of Leave holders and their residences - https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/Archives/POL515 I've attached the page and you can see he was at Captain Fenton's in 1849 but right at the end it says Thos Burk, F Forrest 9-1-54" This is Fenton Forrest the large property owned by Captain Michael Fenton - https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fenton-michael-2038 So it would appear that Thomas Burke was a tenant farmer at Fenton Forrest in 1854?

The other witness was Susan Leary and I believe she originally Susan Mcauley who married Thomas Leary in Hobart in 1848 - https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD37-1-7p130j2k They both appear in the same volume as Dennis Galvin. Thomas leary was at Captain Fentons 28/8/'52 and Susan Mcauley/Leary was at Captain Fentons 15/4/'52. So you have most of the wedding participant's in one specific place? This leads to idea that Ann Macnamara may have been a servant to Captain Fenton in the same time frame?

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Australia / Re: BOURKE family Tasmania
« on: Wednesday 22 November 23 06:04 GMT (UK)  »
AHHH....Thanks for link to ther other post!! Don't want to be duplicating things  ::)

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