How did Catherine HAWLEY get to Australia?

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Do you think this could be him and they got his name wrong?

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/72186583?searchTerm=drowning%20bathurst&searchLimits=l-decade=186|||l-year=1866

[~MERLIN~]

Yep, here's one with the correct name:

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18721771

He has a headstone at Bathurst also. I'll send you a transcription shortly.

[~MERLIN~]

MI:

Sacred to the memory of John Hawley who departed this life 17 December, 1866 age 49 years

Location:

Bathurst Cemetery
Church of England
Old Section no 1
Row 5

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Thank you for the inscription Merlin.

I so hope in his delirious state that he just fell in while trying to get a bucket of water.

The newspaper article I found said he was a "confectioner", but as Cando pointed out he is of the wrong age to be the John HAWLEY, confectioner I am looking for, so is he related, or am I barking up a gum tree.


Ooooh thinking out aloud please bare with me. the Bathurst cemetery site has John HAWLEY's death as 1886. If this is a typo error and this is the John HAWLEY who fell down the well in 1866. He could well be my JH. 1866 aged 49 gives him a birth date of 1817.

[~MERLIN~]

It's a typo error on the website - there are several    It should be 1866 not 1886.

I have copies of the original transcriptions from years ago. One of OH's rellies was one of the ladies who worked on the project.

Just found some siblings for John & his mother's maiden name.

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Merlin, I think you have done it again.

I think he is my JH and the website is wrong.

Family probably arrived in 1852 as Cando found. John became insolvent in Sydney by 1857 (I wonder if he went to Bathurst for a new start) and he was dead by 1866. So after 14 years in the colony what happened to Catherine and Isabella?

At 5 o'clock this afternoon this family was just a few names on a family tree. Thank you to you all, I now have a fuller picture of them.

Some people remain names and dates on my family tree. And then sometimes some of them shout at me to find their story. John HAWLEY is one of those people.

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Red post: Thank you so much Merlin.

I have to go to bed. Need to be at work in 6 hours.

Thanks for everything

Luv, Ted

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John's siblings:

Baptism: 23 Sep 1810 St Peter, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Mary Ann HAWLEY - Daughter of Henry Hawley & Catharine (formerly WHITE)
Born: 8 Sep 1810
Abode: Cumberland St
Father's Occupation: Labourer
   
Baptism: 6 Aug 1815 St Peter, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Mary HAWLEY - Daughter of Henry & Catharine HAWLEY
Abode: Whitechapel
Father's Occupation: Victualler
Baptised by: J. Pulford Curate
   
Baptism: 15 Aug 1819 St Peter, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Catharine HAWLEY - Daughter of Henry & Catharine HAWLEY
Abode: Clayton St
Father's Occupation: Labourer
Baptised by: P. Bulmer Curate

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And some sibings burials:

Burial: 29 Oct 1815 St Nicholas, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
John HAWLEY - Son of Henry Hawley & Cathn.
Age: 2 Years
Abode: White Chapel
Buried by: T. H. Heathcote Curate

Burial: 16 Feb 1823 St Nicholas, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Henry HAWLEY
Age: 10 Months
Abode: Clayton St.
Buried by: T. H. Heathcote Curate

Burial: 19 Nov 1823 St Nicholas, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Martha HAWLEY
Age: 6 Weeks
Abode: Clayton Street
Buried by: Thomas Johnson Curate