Thanks everyone for your help and all the links which I am going through.
I bought the 1859 marriage cert last week and it confirms that it was indeed the James Gleeson of Co. Limerick that I was looking for. Bridget was the daughter of Thomas (not John as recorded on death record) & Margaret.
On Family Search, I found 2 baptisms in St. Mary's, Geelong (same church where James & Bridget were married) and a marriage in 1888 in Wagga Wagga whose parents were James G & Bridget Ryan. I have not located these births on the BMD records.
http://tinyurl.com/zvojr4zSo to sum up the info at hand: James arrived in Victoria prior to 1857 and acquired land in Puebla. He married Bridget Ryan in 1859 in Geelong and had possibly the following children:=
Johanna - baptism 1859
Catherine - baptism 1863
James 1866
Ellen 1868
Margaret 1870
Patrick 1870
Mrs Leola (Bridget Kewley died at the home of her daughter).
Michael Thomas John who married in Wagga Wagga 1888. ?? Michael had the Prince of Wales Hotel in Wagga Wagga and later his son John Dudley was kiled
(Bridget had 3 daughters & 1 son living at the time of her death in 1918)
Having left farming c1863, James became a publican & hotel owner and moved north to Echuca where he died in 1876.
Bridget remarried Kewley in 1882 and had difficult times with her new husband!
I haven't found any relevant death records in Victoria with parents James Gleeson & Bridget Ryan but Michael Thomas John's death record below is showing Michael for father. Could this be an error?
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Re Mary Leola nee Gleeson
A Mary Gleeson married Francisco Leola in 1917, Vic.
18975/1931 LEOLA MARY JAMES BRIDGET GOSFORD
Trove -The death of Mrs.Mary Leola occurred on Saturday last (oct 3rd) at her residence at Saratoga. Deceased was 58 years of age, and passed away after an illness of a fortnight's duration. The late Mrs. Leola, who had lived at Saratoga for the past eight years, leaves a husband.
Mary Leola Born Date 19 Aug 1873
Burial 3rd Oct 1931 at Point Clare Sydney, New South Wales in Australia
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Re Michael Thomas John Gleeson married to Annie Smith in 1888.
Michael had the Prince of Wales Hotel in Wagga Wagga for a time but moved around after that. His son John Dudley was killed in a railway accident in 1925.
21673/1935
GLEESON MICHAEL T J
MICHAEL J
BRIDGET
RANDWICK
Trove 10 Oct 1935
MICHAEL THOMAS JOHN GLEESON late of
Clovelly In the State of New South Wales Retired
Hotel Broker deceased -Application will be made
after fourteen days of publication hereof that
Probate of the Will of the above named deceased
may be granted to ETHEL EVERLEEN MAUD PAUL
and MICHAEL JAMES GLEESON the Executrix and
Executor named therein
And the children of above
2789/1898 GLEESON ETHEL E M MICHAEL T ANNIE DUBBO
15870/1889 GLEESON MARY E MICHAEL I J ANNIE DUBBO
15871/1889 GLEESON MARY A MICHAEL I J ANNIE DUBBO
12239/1890 GLEESON JOHN D MICHAEL T J ANNIE DUBBO
35694/1908 GLEESON MICHAEL J MICHAEL T J ANNIE GOULBURN
Thanks again for your assistance.
