Can't leave you lot alone for a minute!
Good old Bryan- I lost track of him at Table Cape in 1820! It wasn't me that disproved the theory- it was Robyn, I think, who found Mrs Overend (nee McNaltyof Sydney Cove 1806) alive in Sydney in 1822 Muster as I recall. But it wouldn't wash now, after all the concentrated researching of the past 3 months or so. There is no way that Catherine could have been in Hobart from 1814, and no way she could have known Thomas briefly in Sydney in 1814 and then popped up in Hobart in 1819to be declared as his wife- unless it wass John McNally (not Bryan Overhand) who knew Thomas Ransom in Norfolk Island days or at Sydney in 1814, and by coincidence went to VDL in 1816 with commonlaw wife Catharine in employ of Cummings of Cummings, and met Thomas again in Hobart when Anne Cummings and she absconded. That fits- and will give Wiggy fits!
Cathrina McNallywho married John Bowen in 1807 is still not out of contention, even though John Bowen/Bourne who died Sydney 1809 was not the John Bowen that Cathrina married. Neither is Catherine McNally the Methodist/Quaker born Sussex 1789 out of play- only trouble is getting either of them to Sydney!
Sorry to have lead you up the garden path, Bob, comes from sitting on Catharines'e grave from time to time- could have sworn the hawthorn hedge whispered "Nelson, remember Nelson"
McNally the seaman, the sealer, per Governor Macquarie ,goes back to before 1810 in Sydney. and don't forget John McNally aged 11 living in the house of Ann Clemensin Sydney per 1822 Muster).
Welcome to all the new players in Team Catharine!
David
