drownings in the thames

[PatLac]

I wonder if Polly could be one of the three Misses Tyree sailing from Sydney to Vancouver via Fiji and Honolulu on 18 March 1895?

I think Mrs. Hughes and child could be Emily Sarah Cherry who married Polly's cousin William Alfred Tyree in 1876 (daughters Misses Emily Mary Louise "Polly" b. 1877, and Pauline Rose Tyree b. 1880) and after his death (1886) married Thomas Hughes in 1892 (daughter Emily Florence b. in NSW in 1893, son Charles Melton b. in Fiji in 1895, daughter May b. 189?, daughter Dorothy b. in NSW in 1902)?

Polly was 13 when her mother Ann Catherine died and 17 when her father William died, so it's likely that she lived with other relatives. If she is the 3rd Miss Tyree, maybe she married abroad?

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/235989862?searchTerm=%22miss%20tyree%22%20%22new%20zealand%22#

https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/G99C-72G

[rosie99]

Patlac, Well found 

That would make sense, it is certainly something else we need to be looking at

[PatLac]

I haven't been able to find May's birth certificate. Her wedding record:

14849/1929  HILL DOUGLAS R   HUGHES   MAY J   SYDNEY

I wonder if she was also born in Fiji, and maybe Polly remained there or went to Canada?

On the other hand, maybe this wasn't Polly, I can see that her namesake who married Rev. Horace Eustace SEXTON went to Canada. 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209262288/mary-hodgeman-sexton

She was born in Victoria so maybe NSW, Fiji, Honolulu and Canada are places to look for Polly. 

[rosie99]

Kentish Independent 4th May 1901
A Woolwich Mystery
The bodies of a Man and a Woman were found in the Thames last week, and at the inquest a verdict of "Found Drowned' was returned.  On Saturday the deceased man was identified as Arthur E Grant, a Steward formerly employed on the P&O Liner Moravian. He and a young woman from Australia, whose name was Mary Tyrel, had been living together at the house of Mrs Harden, 28 Westdale Road, Plumstead and the woman was expecting to become a mother

ADDED
They are not at 28 Westdale Road on the 1901 census

[PatLac]

Kentish Independent 4th May 1901
A Woolwich Mystery
The bodies of a Man and a Woman were found in the Thames last week, and at the inquest a verdict of "Found Drowned' was returned.  On Saturday the deceased man was identified as Arthur E Grant, a Steward formerly employed on the P&O Liner Moravian. He and a young woman from Australia, whose name was Mary Tyree, had been living together at the house of Mrs Harden, 28 Westdale Road, Plumstead and the woman was expecting to become a mother

BRILLIANT! (although very sad)

[rosie99]

I could not believe it when it popped up 

[PatLac]

I could not believe it when it popped up 

I know the feeling  🥳

[PatLac]

Deaths Jun 1901   (>99%)
Grant    Arthur    21    Woolwich    1d   657

No death record for Mary.

[rosie99]

Kentish Mail & Greenwich and Deptford Observer - May 3rd 1901 had this added

They left the house on Monday April 22nd, and after leaving the woman came back and threw her arms around Mrs Harden's neck and kissed her saying I regret that I have given you trouble you are a good woman. On the following day their bodies were found in the river. It has been stated they had become reduced almost to a state of destitution

Also in Lloyds Weekly Newspaper 28th April