o'neills in Rakaia NZ

[Lucy2]

Elizabeth O'NEILL

Louisa O'NEILL

Richard Howard O'NEILL

Can find nothing at all in later years for these children.

[Have looked at possible marriages for the girls - nothing seems to stack up though.    Grrr ! ]

[Lucy2]

Emily Catherine O'NEILL (b. 1877)

Emily Catherine O'NEILL - Richard Louis WILLIAMS - m. 1903


Archives NZ (Chirstchurch) have a probate record.

WILLIAMS - Emily Catherine - Widow, of Leeston - 1944

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Mary Ann O'NEILL  - (bc 1876)

"Ellesmere Guardian" - 27 April 1898 - Wedding at Killinchy

Mary Ann O'NEILL - Edwin Walter BODY - m. 1898


Edwin Walter BODY - died 1936 - aged 71
Mary Ann, re-married two years after his death.

Mary Ann BODY - John Buchanan McKAY

There was also a son Albert Edwin BODY who died 1918 - aged 19 years.

All are buried (in adjacent plots) at Hamilton West Cemetery (North Island).

See cemetery records at  >

http://www.hamilton.co.nz

.. click on "cemetery records link" :

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Mary Ann McKAY (formerly BODY, nee O'Neill)

Archives NZ (Auckland) have a probate record.

McKAY - Mary Ann - of Hamilton - widow -- 1950


[Seems to have been just the one child Albert Edwin BODY - d. 1918].

[Lucy2]

Jacky   ... will add families 2 &  3  tomorrow (going a bit cross-eyed at the moment.)   

~  Lu

[jck1103]

Hi Lu

will wait for 2 and 3 no problem am cross eyed myself !!

thanks

regards jacky

[Lucy2]

O'NEILL - children of Elizabeth and Benjamin

1888 - Lily - marriage found (see earlier posts around page 1 or 2)

1889  - Ruby May - marriage found  - ditto

1891  - Benjamin Leeson - sorted   

1892  - George Joseph - just need to re-check his details

1894  - Albert  - sadly died in WW1

1895  - Walter - marriage etc. found

1897  - Catherine - many possibilities - but marriage record not yet found

1899  - Annie Maria - nothing yet found

also  ... 
 
1893 - Rebecca -- parents - Hannah Elizabeth & Benjamin   -- birth registered at Ellesmere. 
[Note:  Despite the forename of mother shown as being "Hannah", I still think this is the same couple "Elizabeth and Benjamin".  Haven't found anything further for this Rebecca - she may have died as an infant - but no death found. ]
                                                       
          More children ...              see next    >>

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O'NEILL - George Joseph (Joseph George) - b. 1892

Appears to have married as >

Joseph George Cunningham O'NEILL
to  Dorothy NORTON-TAYLOR   ... year 1920

[She was born 1899 -- seems her sister Gladys, later married another O'Neill brother - Frederick Roberts O'NEILL.]

Death

1979 - O'NEILL - George Joseph - d.o.b.  6 June 1892

Probate record at Archives NZ (Christchurch) :

Indexed as both "Joseph George" and "George Joseph" O'NEILL - Christchurch - Rail worker -- 1979

[Lucy2]

Continued ... children of Elizabeth and Benjamin O'NEILL


1900 - Frederick Roberts O'Neill

1902 - Alfred Ernest O'NEILL

1903 - William Selwyn O'NEILL

1905 - Harold John O'NEILL