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That may well be the case Sue.
They certainly struggled financially.

Dale

Hi All,

I was wondering if someone could help date this photo. It is supposedly of the groom James Torney on his wedding day.

We are trying to work out which James it is most likely to be.

Thinking sometime from 1880 til 1940

Thanks Dale

Firstly I would like to thank you all for the fantastic information provided.

This is certainly the Emma and her family I am chasing.

There was conflicting information I was given and the story I posted was the best I could come up with. Emma's death certificate also said she was born in Dorset.

Thanks again - very much appreciated

Dale

Hi Cattoc, as indicated post 2 more replies and i can contact you via the messaging system. Regards Dale.                     
Wishing to make contact with @Dalet to find out about the Catto family tree (I just visited Tyrie Mains and Memsie in Aberdeenshire and Rathen Church, where John Catto, my GGgrandfather, and his family originated. How to message people on this chat or to link  myacestry family tree catto-smith  .. Richard and Louisa Gorst were my GGGparents and I have found quite a lot about Louisa and Richard... here is a post I made copied from the Rheola Facebook page   
My Great Great Grandfather Richard Gorst ran the Albion Hotel at Possum Hill with my GGGM Louisa Gorst (both from Ilford), having been successful in applying for one of the 28 licence applications. Their daughter Mary Anne Gorst (b1859 on the Maldon goldfields) married John Catto of Tyrie in 1886. Richard and Louisa had run the Albion Hotel at the Tunstall rush (near Bealiba, adjacent to now where one of her Great Grandsons Donald Eriwn lives at Emu - the last few remnants .. chimney rubble, old gin and whisky bottles / and discarded oyster-shells (which he somehow bought fresh to the goldfields from Geelong) now disappearing into the scrub). That venture lasted for about 24 months when Mary Ann was a child being reared in a rowdy gold fields hotel) and her future husband (my GGrandfather John Catto of Tyrie ran Cruikshanks deep lead mine and quite possible visited the Albion nearby. Richard and Louisa then moved onto Possum Hill. Despite Lousia's husband Richard having been granted a hotel licence, Louisa was caught and convicted at the Tarnagulla Police Court (along with Margaret Head), the Postmaster at Possum Hill, selling slygrog without a licence, in 1979. Loiusa was fined 25 Pounds, but opted to be imprisoned for a month in the Dunolly Lockup with the post master Frederick Treble (3 months)
After the rush petered out at Possum Hill, Richard and Louisa moved to Richmond Melbourne as rather wealthy retirees. However Richard suffered acute mental collapse / (dementia ?) and met a very sad and troubled demise in ~1886. Louisa died soon after of a long and painful illness ..both are buried in the Melbourne cemetery.   
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88213949?searchTerm=%22Louisa%20Gorst%22
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