brick wall with Catherine McArthur

[majm]

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/31641517 Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer 5 Jan 1918.

Notice the deceased was described as the wife of Christopher DONNELLY of Canberra ... so he was still LIVING at that time.

JM

[sharonsteinberg47]

no he wasn't...he died in 1911

[sharonsteinberg47]

according to my cousin in Newcastle she started the family tree but lost interest she got mary makins name from the marriage cert. of george and Ada.

[majm]

So a Christopher DONNELLY, husband of a Mary  and that chap is known to you to have died in 1911
and
there's a Christopher DONNELLY husband of a Mary who died in 1918 at Bowral, and that chap still alive at that time and living in Canberra.

So there's two chaps named Christopher DONNELLY with wife as Mary alive in the very era and general locality of your Christopher and Mary DONNELLY.

ADD

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/215024798 Murrumburrah Signal  etc.   28 April 1911 death of Christopher DONNELLY, an old man in accident.

JM

JM

[sharonsteinberg47]

i hardly think there are two christopher donnellys living in canberra at any time. a descendant of christopher donnelly and mary mcdonald said that mary went to live with her daughter in bowral once christopher got kicked by the horse and died.

[majm]

i hardly think there are two christopher donnellys living in canberra at any time. a descendant of christopher donnelly and mary mcdonald said that mary went to live with her daughter in bowral once christopher got kicked by the horse and died.

Not sure that I have further opportunity to help your quest, my offline resources are quite extensive and concentrate on NSW in the 19th century, but at the moment it is more important for me that I get back onto my work commitments.   

I urge you to quietly take the time to read back over all the posts on this thread, and also to remove the name of the living person mentioned by you.

Good hunting,

JM

[sharonsteinberg47]

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/99019433?searchTerm=mary%20donnelly%20bowral%201918%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&searchLimits=

[sharonsteinberg47]

thanks for all your interest.

[majm]

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/99019433?searchTerm=mary%20donnelly%20bowral%201918%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&searchLimits=

So that rules out Mary MAKIN as born in NSW to James and Catherine who married at Carcoar.    It may be that Mary is daughter of James first marriage.      

ADD
Remember too there's a Mary MCDONALD, who married a Christopher DONNELLY, and her death has Alexander as her dad's given name ... Alexander is a good Scottish given name.   And it seems to me that this Mrs DONNELLY is the one in the newspaper cutting above. 

JM