Missing any Boyles. Caugheys, Millars, Ballaghs ??

[Dale]

HI
The Boyles do my head in!
We have a family rumour that some of the family left Ireland about 1850, went to Pennsylvania, back to England,  then to New Zealand!
I have the wife with an unusual name, Lucinda, and the one place that shows up Lucindas is the US.
 Some in the family question WHY would they go to the US, return to England, catch a ship and come to NZ? I have their arrival here as 1862-1865 in batches!  They all settled in thr same area as other County Downers and I suspect they were all related (!!), all Presbyterian,  and that the Church said "go forth & multiply and we''ll help with the fares!"

IF your Mary was married it should be clear on the Marriage cert especially if she had a child - but one of mine had a child in Ireland but said she was a spinster when marrying in NZ - technically correct because she hadn't married the 1st partner.

Could the child be a son/daughter of the Aunt /uncle and Mary was the Caregiver staying in the same cabin with the child? They were fairly strict aboard emigrant ships so a 16/17 year old girl may not have been able to stay in the same cabin with a married couple if she was a niece.
I know that mine came from Co Down & that helps here, but not in the US where they just said they were from Ireland!

Can you glean any clues from the birth certs of any children she had  with Matthews?  NZ have a birthplace of the parents noted on them. As we knew the dates of our grandparents births - all 11 of them it meant we had to buy every birth cert as the Irish mother changed her birthplace or the Registrar spelt it differently for each child (!!!) but eventually we managed to pinpoint the locality and I managed to find her Baptism. That put her mother at a given location at a very specific date and I eventually found the grandfather  on the Griffiths Valuation (spelt Boal) at the same time.

NOW I'm not sure where to go but at least I have the family in ireland 1860- 1863 and in NZ 1865 - whether they went to America is a mattter for hot debate!

What you can guarantee is that your ancestors  were on the move!

I would take a good look at the residence given for Mary/Marion at her marriage, she probably married in her local parish. See if there are any O/Boyles around the area, check whether the Priest was Irish, what brotherhood he belonged to etc, were there Nuns aboard the ship, were there heaps of Irish in the town where she settled etc?

I had to go through many back doors to get answers! If you wish to write privately giving your info I'm happy to help - just PM me!
Cheers
Dale