« Reply #44 on: Friday 27 November 20 09:58 GMT (UK) »
Great work jon & all; all beginning to come together. I agree that Nellie [mother of Cecilia] somehow got hold of the wrong birth certificate & assumed the birthdate. Overnight I was wondering whether Katherine & Nellie were born in Ireland & had determined to look for them there!! But overnight you've all been putting together the clues already provided & finding others. I think we're nearly there.
As Josephine says, it seems Kate did not know where she was born, so maybe the sisters were orphans or abandonned?
ADDED:
Names father of her child.
Also says 'I expect confinement Sept next'.
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON