McGrath Family New Zealand

[Lucy2]

This may be the Georgina Maria McGrath you located Lucy...
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TS18700905.2.4&srpos=4&e=--1866---1873--10--1----0georgina+m%27grath--
Drowned at aged 2.5 

ADD: Note the drowned child's full name is OLIVIA Georgina Maria McGrath
However we still have a daughter unaccounted for in Sydney in 1888

Warm regards
Julie

Excellent sleuthing Julie ... well done. 

Yes, the NZ Death Index only gives her as Olivia G. M. McGRATH so I hadn't picked up on that. 
[No birth registration showing but she was the daughter of a James McGRATH of Kilmore Street East, in Christchurch. ]   Another eliminated from this search ... yay.

   ~  Lu

[majm]

However we still have a daughter unaccounted for in Sydney in 1888

Have you checked the NSW SRO's combined index (Child Care and Protection) for that elusive child, in Sydney in 1888?
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01a4y/ 

Or the index re the Benevolent Society? http://www.sydneybenevolentasylum.com/


Cheers,  JM

[Juliannet]

I have located a "Sacred Heart" Convent and boarding school in Mount Erin, Wagga Wagga. This link is of the annual Christmas holiday celebration in 1893. It refers to a number of female McGrath children. As we already know there were several McGrath families living in Wagga. Indeed Wagga is where Maurice lived and where he married Sarah Oakman that same year, 1893 - Perhaps one of his sisters was attending this convent.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/101828837?searchTerm=georgina%20m%27grath%20teacher&searchLimits=l-australian=y#pstart10653992

[Juliannet]

Margaret would have been 18 that year -
Is it possible... this is her? Could we by so lucky?
A small extract from the very long article.

University Class.
First prize, a silver watch, presented by Rev. M. Slattory, Tumut, for Matriculation Pass, awarded to Miss Gallagher.

Second prize, gold medal, for success at late University Examination, awarded to Miss M'Grath.

Third prize, for success at University Examination, awarded to Miss Cassie Gallagher.

[sandy feet]

Hello Lucy, Julia and Co,  I haven't been getting notifications so have been out of the loop with the recent findings which are great. However I have recieved some info regarding Peter McGrath,s activities in Rangiora regarding a sale yard business, charged with trespassing when rabit shooting and the purchase of a ship the Ketch Eagle which prior to purchase was invovled in the Maori wars. To what extent I do not know as yet. I have been tring to find a photo of Peter and family. He seemed to be a prominent member of the community so was hoping there may have been some photographic evidence. I will try in Wellington where he owned the pub. Peter sure fit a lot of living in to his relatively short life.

Regards Sandy

[sandy feet]

I am having trouble attaching other docs due to size restrictions but will try again later

egards Sandy

[sandy feet]

Hello Majm,

Attached is Frank & Margaret's marriage cert as requested. The listed names of Margaret's parents are incorrect and this has been discussed at length earlier in this thread. Possible some transcrip errors as well as the mystery of Peter's name given as Vincent on both the Marriage cert and Margaret's death cert. However I am certain that Margaret is in fact my realtive.

Regards Sandy

[majm]

 

So have you contacted the Church of England, Townsville, to check that the information also recorded Rev F G Williams parish register has been accurately transmitted to the Qld BDM?   Or perhaps contact the Uni who have the “Marriage Registers :  January 1900-August 1906, 1 vol.,”
https://web.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/NQAR/biogs/E003306b.htm   

It is quite possible that the info on Margaret's dc is drawn from her mc, perhaps the informant may have actually located the mc and read from it when providing info to the funeral director who then registers the death, so in that sense, it is really from one primary source.

fingers crossed,   

Cheers,  JM

[Juliannet]

Hi Researchers,

I found one little word this morning while looking over some past papers (Hurunui), so decided to plug it in with the name McGrath.
The following resulted...

Reference to McGraths Creek
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP19001030.2.25&srpos=8&e=-------10--1----0Hurunui+mcgrath--

A Google search told me McGraths Creek is in Arthurs Pass
So I turned to Facebook and my friend who lived in Arthurs Pass for a few years.

Named after Mr McGrath (no first name recorded) he was a road-contractor who build the section of road here, when the 2nd road was built here, not sure when that was, but imagine 1880/90s. The road here has been realigned many times (the original is across Daisy Flat). Reference 1935 Park Handbook.

I have attached the section of the handbook.

Curious I searched further...

Maliciously Wounding – Peter & Margaret McGrath charged
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CHP18720306.2.15&cl=search&srpos=1&e=-------10--1----0Hurunui+mcgrath--

Margaret McGrath indicted for unlawfully maiming a cow
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP18720408.2.19&srpos=3&e=-------10--1----0Hurunui+mcgrath--

Reference to Hurunui railway
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=MEX18930106.2.7&srpos=5&e=-------10--1----0Hurunui+mcgrath--

McGrath & Moody auctions at Rangioria
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP18810905.2.23.2&srpos=6&e=-------10--1----0Hurunui+mcgrath--

Five Pound reward for strayed geldings – Peter McGrath
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP18761010.2.2.5&srpos=24&e=-------10--21----0Hurunui+mcgrath--

McGrath v. The Corporation
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=THD18831112.2.11&srpos=54&e=-------10--51----0Hurunui+mcgrath--

McGrath 4 bedroom rental destroyed by fire
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP18830727.2.9&srpos=134&e=-------10--131----0Hurunui+mcgrath--

Hurunui flood and McGraths Northern Railway contract ok
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP18790621.2.18&srpos=139&e=-------10--131----0Hurunui+mcgrath--

We now have another town to check for the missing children.
To date we have a gap between 1866 Hokitika and Rangioria 1875 when Margaret Ann (Beatrice) was born.
The cow maiming now gives us a new town, Hurunui and takes us back to 1872.

Hopefully it will open doors for the later years in Australia following Peter seniors death.

Warm Regards
Julie