Help! Warning, sketchy details!

[AussieJuniper]

I have a real problem.

I have an ancestor to track down but only on the scantiest of details.

Sarah McGiveron/Mcgowran
Born in Dublin
Died 12/7/1889 in Hobart, Tasmania

Wife of John Brown
Forest Hill
Oxford, England

Married on 20/5/1850 in Hobart

[CBGenealogy]

Does the marriage record give her father's name?
Birth records only began in 1864 so you would need a parish to search in church registers.

[cando]

Unfortunately the Tasmanian marriage record on the index only lists her age as Adult

BROWN John
MCGOVERN Sarah
20 May 1850  Age Adult 
Registration Place Hobart   Reg#224/1850   Ref RGD 37

but her death record details her age

BROWN Sarah
No parents noted.
12 Jul 1889  Aged 61 years 
Registration Place Hobart   Reg# 661/1889  Ref RGD 35

No parents names on Tasmanian marriage registrations until c1897.

Is your Sarah this convict transported from Dublin Ire?

http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/default.aspx?detail=1&type=I&id=CON41/1/19
Her conduct record is on digitised page 88.  I note in the margin of the record a note....14.8.50 Mar   24.8.1850 CP.

Further searching reveals she is

Permission to marry
http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=5
McGOVERN     Sarah     Kinnear     
BROWN     John     Ratcliffe     30 APR 1850     CON52/3 p27     RGD37/9 : 1850/224

http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=11
45519      
McGovern     Sarah
Departed  16 Jun 1848     from Dublin               
07 Oct 1848     Ship Kinnear (2)

I can't see in the records that she was actually born Dublin.  Of course you may have other information.

I think the Tasmanian Archives have provided a wonderful service with the digitising of the convict records.

I only intended doing a short post to give her age in the death registration...sorry if you think I got carried away

Cheers and good luck with your search.

Cando



     

[AussieJuniper]

Oh WOW!

I am so amazed!

I literally had only the details I posted about her.

You guys are gods!