Hi Ozybob,
When I said a couple of posts back:
There is the marriage of a Maria Louisa WHITE to a James Meadow WHITE, and births of children with parents James M WHITE & Maria L - all in Cassilis which is the next town from Merriwa.
I didn't give the full details as they are easily looked up online.
I essentially discounted the Nundle lot for various reasons:
1. Susie Evans WHITE, on her marriage cert, gave her usual residence as
Merriwa. It was thought she had probably been living with one of her siblings so I was looking for a link to a sibling in Merriwa.
Merriwa is the next town to
Cassilis (a bit over 40 km).
2. One of Louisa's siblings was Maria
L WHITE, b 1837. The 1857 Cassilis marriage was of James Meadow WHITE & Maria Louisa WHITE. All of the Cassilis birth records consistently have father James
M and mother Maria
L (one with the second names fully spelled out).
3. Nundle, while in the same general area of NSW, is considerably further away from Merriwa (ca 180 km) than is Cassilis! The nearest main town to Nundle is Tamworth (ca 50 km).
4. There is an appropriate marriage in Tamworth for the Nundle births: James WHITE m Maria MCDONALD/MACDONALD in 1865 - no middle names/initials. There is also an appropriate first child for this couple registered in Tamworth - Frederick M 1866 - followed by the children registered in Nundle between 1868 and 1881 (all births with parents consistently just as James and Maria i.e. no middle names or initials).
The only annoying aspect is that there is not a Cassilis birth in the same year as a Nundle birth
JAP
