Hello all.
I am also researching this GREALY family. My wife’s people trace back to a Goulburn branch – Thomas GREALY who married Margaret NAUGHTON, 15Jun1858.Their daughter, who married John WATSON, is my wife’s great-grandmother. (I have just found your posts having recently picked up the reins of this project again.)
You may well have some or all of the following, and I’ll try only to add to what is on the thread already, but this is what I know of them in Australia:
Thomas, Mary and James arrived on the ‘Regulus’ in Melbourne in 1842.
In 1850, Thomas purchased a residential block on the corner of Union and Lagoon Sts. It was held in the family until my wife’s uncle sold them to a canny chap who onsold it to a fuel company to establish a service station on it. (The uncle, so it goes, was born under the third pump, ie where the third fuel pump sat on the block.)
“The Pioneer Register of Goulburn and District” notes that Thomas was a labourer and James was a shop keeper. The two Grealy boys who drowned were sons of these two men. Mary married Patrick GOALY/GAULEY in Ireland. James had also married in Ireland, to Honorah FAHY in 1836. She must have died because he married Catherine (Kate)HESHAM, a widow, in 1861. James was about 61!
All three lived their lives in the Goulburn district and at least Thomas and Mary are buried in the old cemetery there.
The book also notes that in 1853, James sponsored 10 of hus nephews and nieces from Ireland under the “Rem Reg scheme” [?]and more in the late 1850s.
