Hello
I've done a bit more digging over in Australia.
So there is a death notice for Mary in the Lauceston Examiner on the Trove Website.
6 Aug 1872
MAGRATH.—On the 2nd August, at Hobart Town, Mary, relict
of the late Daniel Magrath, in the 80th year of her age.
Her death registration gives her as 79 at Hobart reg 1042.
This would put her birth in the 1792/3 area.
The marriage licence is just concerned with whether she is over 21 and doesn't need her parents consent to marry.It often says something like 21 years and upwards.
Daniel's death is 12.3.1847 age 52 years at Hobart on the Australian death index.So born c 1795.Reg 1397.
His death is reported in the Colonial Times 16th March.
LAMENTABLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT-We have to record to-day one of those fatal occurrences
which, in our limited community, neverfail to create a considerable degree of public
interest, sorrow, and sympathy. We allude to the death of Mr. Daniel McGrath, Inspector of
Weights and Measures of this city, who was found drowned in one of the excavations at the
back of Government-house early on Saturday morning. From the inquest, which commenced
on Saturday afternoon and concluded yesterday evening, we gather the following' particulars:-.
The deceased, it appeared, had been at (the launch, where he was as friendly and as cheerful
as usual; from thence he repaired, with ninety others, to Mr. Sykes's, the George the Fourth, on
the New Wharf, where a supper was given by the ship builders to their friends and other visitors.
Mr M'Grath remained here till some time after ten o'clock, when he left, it was supposed,
to go home, and considerably inebriated He never reached his home, but, from some cases '
countable reason, he had wandered in a direction quite opposite to his residence, and was found
as already stated, the next morning quite dead in the water into which, it is presumed he must
have accidentally fallen The person who first found him was attracted to the spot by the deceased's
hat, which was lying in the path From a slight contusion on the check, some suspicion
was at first excited that the deceased had been ill used, but aposi-mnrttm examination, with other
evidence, totally disproved this. His snuff-box, watch, and some money, were found upon his
person. The jury, after a very careful examination returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased
came accidentally to his death by drowining.
In theory both death certifcates should have parents and arrival dates in Australia.
But I do think Mary Wrights parents are John Wright 1765-1821 and his wife Mary Samadine 1759-1821.
(John Wright's father John Wright 1729 - 3.3.1814 of Swinton burial at Wath upon Dearne and mother Edith 1730-20.6.1790 buried 22nd wife of John of Kilnhurst.They married 7.12.1755 at Rawmarsh and he was a carpenter.And she was Edith Wilson John junior bapt at Wath 14.3.1765).
There is also that Will of Thomas Scamadine July 1770 Rotherham PC York court Mary Wright's grandfather which may suggest money in the family which may have been used by her to pay for the draper's shop for Daniel.Often if a man left money to his daughter he would then want it to go to her children .
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