Patrick O'Malley is my mother's adoptive father although she only found out that she was not his natural daughter after his death.
Patrick was born in County Mayo on or about 6 March 1888 and came to Queensland Australia (North Queensland in the Cairns, Gordonvale, Smithfield area) sometime before 1919 when electoral rolls show him living in Gordonvale. He died in Cairns, Queensland in Jan 1971.
His brother Hugh also came to North Queensland, married and died there. From family photos I have, I know Patrick had at least two sisters, Annie and Mary and he had a nephew Owen O'Malley who lived in New Zealand. I think Owen was the son of another brother.
Patrick married my grandmother Winifred Margaret O'Malley in Oct 1934 and adopted my two year old mother. On Winifred's deathbed in 1989 she told my mother that her real father was a man by the name of Percy White. He had also come to Queensland from Ireland to cut cane (possibly with a brother or relative Matthew White) but had apparently deserted my grandmother when she told him she was pregnant, and family history says he went back to Ireland to a wife my grandmother knew nothing about.
I am looking for information on both of Patrick O''Malley and Percy White although I have no other details than what I have stated here. I would love to find records of their births, parents, immigration details etc or any family who may still be living in Ireland.
Thanks very much
