Robyn,
somewhere along the line my congratulations were postd but didn't appear, so again a terrific find and top marks for stickability, seems to be the clincher that joins the dots
I have checked the NSW BMD for births of anybody called Catherine, Catharine, Catherina, Catharina and Christina 1788-1792, given Christina Stiegltz aad 68 in 1857.NIL. So she wasn.t an early BC
Ihave checked NSW BMD for marriages for the above names 1803-1819, nothing close to McNally or the various approximationsoff the name
There is n John McNally in the 1814 NSW Muster, only James, and the only Cathrine is my friend Catherine McNalty married to Bryan Overend. James is shown as per Bodington, and only James is listed on Bodington. Yet John McNally n 1819 Port Dalrymple Muster claims Per Boddington. THere is also listed a James McNally, and also three McNally children, John, John and Elizabeth. A probable transposition error betwen James and John for the Per Boddington.
I haven't checked the 1811 NSW Muster for John McNally, and Mrs.
John Cummings of Port Dalrymple who employed John and Mrs McNally in 1816 had a brother William , also resigned from Rum Corps with John, who was a Hawkebury settler, I think, so his householdwill need to be checked, in case brother John pinched his overseer or something.
Now we (probably) know how and where she came from , but we still don't know who she is!
David