Hinchey

[thelly]

Good afternoon,
I have a mystery that whichever way I turn I can't solve, so do hope someone can help.

My g-g-grandmother, Catherine Hinchey was born in 1834 in Manchester, Lancashire, UK, her parents were Lurran Hinchey (not sure if Lurran is a nickname for Laurence) b1811 in Cork Ireland, her mother, Mary Fitzgibbons was b1816 in Cork Ireland, they married at Cathedral Manchester UK on 22 May 1834, and had four children, Catherine b1834, John b1836, James b1838 and William b1841, all in Manchester, the family appears in the 1841 census, and then it is as though they have completely disappeared except Catherine.   

The name Catherine Hinchey appears on the passenger list as a free settler on the Royal Saxon into Botany Bay Sydney on 29 June 1844, but she would have only been 10 in 1844.

Catherine's name appears again when she married Laurence Hickey on 9 April 1855 in Richmond Tasmania, they had 7 children, and lived in the Huon Valley, where they had one of the biggest apple orchards in Tasmania.

Catherine died on the 18 August 1913 at Honeywood Tasmania.

Sorry this is so drawn out, I and others have tried many avenues but come up with nothing as to the whereabouts of the rest of Catherine"s  family, do hope someone can help me with this mystery.
Many thanks,
Thelly

[suffolk*sue]

So, are you saying the Catherine who married in 1855 is definitely your relative. Do you have the marriage and death certs, if so do they give any indication of parents.

I looked at the passenger list you mentioned and next to Catherines name it says engaged and two other words I can't make out. Do you know what they are?

[thelly]

Hi,
Yes, Catherine is my ancestor, I haven't seen the passenger list, other family members have told me, I think it was another Catherine Hinchey, as it was a fairly common name.
Thelly

[suffolk*sue]

Trying a name variation as in HINCHY this Catherine was born c1823.



Maybe they went back to Ireland.

[MargP]

Hi

Do you have the marriage certificate of Catherine b 1834 to confirm her parents

Margp

[t mo]

hi all i,ve looked in FindMyPast doing an overall search for each of the children and apart from the 1841 cen the only other thing that shows up is for births .
catherine  oct-dec 1838  manchester  vol 20  p 524
john  july - sep  1843            "              vol 20  p 552
james    jan-march  1839       "             vol 20   p 572
william   apr - june    1841     "              vol 20  p 582
william    jul - sep  1845         "              vol xx   p  697
now i appreciate these may not be the children were looking for but they are the nearest to the census years and as they would have been rounded down by 5 year or so it should be worth looking closer at them as you can see there are 2 williams within 5 years of each other which one is the one we need i can only guess would be the second one if the census years are out by 5 years ? .
i,ve also looked in passenger list records but as they don,t start till 1890 as you can guess found nothing i also did a check in passport records which start in 1851 but again found nothing for any hincheys of any form of spelling the nearest  was hinchcliffe which even allowing for phonetics in speech and that a lot of folk has trouble reading and writing back then i feel is to way off the mark for us .
regards
trevor

[MargP]

Hi

I have looked at the ships record that you mentioned for 29 June 1844 Royal Saxon  the Catherine Hinchley on this record is aged 20???

Margp

Edit Catherine is traveling with Mary Hickey aged 22 it also states that Catherine was born in Lemerick???

[MargP]

I have found the marriage record for Catherine, if this is definitely her on the Royal Saxon she would have been b 1823 and her age would have been 10 years out on the marriage record

She married Laurence Hickey b 1823 it gives Catherine b 1833

I think that to confirm that you on the right track with this, you need a copy of the marriage certificate

Margp

[thelly]

Hi MargP, Sue and Trevor,
Thanks for your help, but my ancestor was born in 1833/34, the Hickey family have done a lot of research, but couldn't  find the family after the 1841 census in Manchester.   I have sent a query to the Tasmanian Archives to see if I can get a copy of their marriage cetificate,  I have looked on Ancestry and Genes Reunited and found nothing.

Laurence was born in Abington, Limerick Ireland, not Catherine.

I didn't realise that there was a 2nd William, perhaps the first boy died.
Regards,
Thelly