Looking for parents of Arthur John Hughes. .

[Dundee]

His death shows that he was born in Wales and had been in Australia for 40 years.  You need to at least get the birth certificate of one of his children, preferably a birth that he registered himself, to see what is given as his place of birth.

Debra 

[Jean003]

I have all his children’s birth certificates & they all have his place of birth as Tasmania

[TasTyger]

I helped Jean with this query in another forum. One possible clue was the witness to Arthur's marriage to Margaret Farquhar, Catherine Elizabeth Curtis. She may have been the Catherine Elizabeth Hughes that married William Curtis in 1868 in Hobart -   https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Digital/RGD37-1-27/RGD37-1-27P94 There is a marriage notice in the Mercury newspaper - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8855814?searchTerm=catherine%20elizabeth%20hughes So this Catherine may possibly be Arthur's sister? I could find nothing about Catherine Elizabeth or William Curtis beyond their marriage? Looked in all the resources that I could think of...

[wivenhoe]

NSW BDM
HUGHES Arthur R                ps   Arthur J / Margaret         @ Sydney                   80/1876
HUGHES Elizabeth Jean        ps  Arthur John / Margaret     @ Sydney               3021/1877
HUGHES Emily Mary            ps   Arthur John / Margaret     @ Berrima              9981/1879

HUGHES Arthur H               ps.  Arthur J / Emily                @ Leichhardt          4978/1887
HUGHES Doris B L              ps.  Arthur J / Emily                @ Balmain Sth      10765/1896
HUGHES Charles T             ps.  Arthur J / Emily                @ Balmain Sth        1246/1898

Sydney Morning Herald   8 May 1878  p1   
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13421332?
May 6th at his residence Mount Street Pyrmont of erysipelas following typhoid fever William CURTIS late of Tasmania age 42 years

Evening News  16 Sep 1880 p3
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/108743425?
September 15 at 48 Mount Street Pyrmont Emily Mary HUGHES youngest and beloved daughter of
A * HUGHES aged 13 months

Rookwood Cemetery
HUGHES E M          buried 17 Sep   1880  age 1
BURIS William        buried   8 May  1878  age 42
Methodist Old 3A OC_Zone A/#/1101                        buried same grave

[sparrett]

Sydney Morning Herald   8 May 1878  p1   
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13421332?
May 6th at his residence Mount Street Pyrmont of erysipelas following typhoid fever William CURTIS late of Tasmania age 42 years

Evening News  16 Sep 1880 p3
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/108743425?
September 15 at 48 Mount Street Pyrmont Emily Mary HUGHES youngest and beloved daughter of
A * HUGHES aged 13 months

Rookwood Cemetery
HUGHES E M          buried 17 Sep   1880  age 1
BURIS William        buried   8 May  1878  age 42
Methodist Old 3A OC_Zone A/#/1101                        buried same grave

Following on from the death and burial of William CURTIS noted above.
CURTIS WILLIAM
917/1878
Mother SARAH
At SYDNEY

 He being the husband of Catherine Elizabeth CURTIS as suggested by Tas Tyger.

Here is a possibility.  Only theory!

In 1889 Catherine remarried.
CURTIS Catherine
DUBERLY Charles
at Paddington
2787.

DUBERLY Marriage notice to CURTIS states she is the widow of Captain Willliam CURTIS (?perhaps a mariner per the Tas Marriage certificate?)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/category/newspapers

Catherine married again after the death of Charles DUBERLY to become Catherine WEIR. Noted here.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/108865555

4175/1896
HEIR HENRY T
DUBERLY CATHERINE
At WOOLLAHRA
Mistranscribed, as HEIR

This may be her death which names her parents
 
WEIR CATHERINE
15779/1923
Father ROBERT C
Mother AUGUSTA S
At WAVERLEY


 Sue

[Jean003]

Thanks for these suggestions. I will definitely look into them to see if I can make any sense out of it

[TasTyger]

The other Catherine Curtis marriage that peaked my interest was the in 1878 to John Matthews -

Registration Number 1259/1878
Groom's Family Name MATTHEWS
Groom's Given Name(s) JOHN
Bride's Family Name(s) CURTIS
Bride's Given Name(s) CATHERINE
District Sydney

Funeral notice for Catherine Matthews appears in the newspaper in 1929 -

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16522061?searchTerm=matthews

Sydney Morning Herald 6 Jan. 1929

MATTHEWS.-The Relatives and Friends of Mr. JOHN MATTHEWS are kindly Invited to attend
the Funeral of his late beloved WIFE, Catherine Elizabeth; to leave her late residence, 11 Mount-street,
Pyrmont, THIS TUESDAY, at 1 p.m., for Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood, via Mortuary Station.

NSW death index gives little info -

Name MATTHEWS CATHERINE E
Registration Number 63/1929
Father's Given Name(s) 78 YEARS SYDNEY
Mother's Given Name(s)
District SYDNEY

Find A Grave -

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189180116/catherine-matthews

I'm not certain what details would be in the 1878 marriage certificate? Some sources says details can be hit and miss in these 1860-1870s certificates? If it contained her birth place and parents then might be well on the way to solving Arthur John Hughes origins?

[Jean003]

TasTyger that Mount St address is ringing a bell! I will have to try to find where I have seen it. You may just be onto something

[TasTyger]

Perhaps because that's where William Curtis died...  - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13421332