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GLEESON Mary Margaret

Hello from Victoria, Australia

My 3rd Great Grandmother was Mary Margret Gleeson, she married Richard Hughes (who was a discharged convict) atScots Kirk - Dr Fullerton's Church, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on28 Jul 1841. They had Clifford Thomas Henry Hughes 1841, my 2nd G Grandfather Alfred Hughes 1843. Don't know about the 3 boys dead. Mary Margaret died11 October 1866Sydney, New South Wales,AGE at Death: 56, DIED DICKSON BUILDING, SYDNEY at livery stable Date: 11 Oct 1866 Burial Place: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Cemetery: Rookwood Row: 6 Inscription: wife of Richard Hughes. Native of Nenagh, Co Tipperary, Ireland, Catholic Catholic Petersham Memorials ISSUE 2 boys living, 3 dead. DO YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION OR CONNECTIONS PLEASE TO HELP ME WITH HERITAGE? Thank you in andvance. Janice

Jenny Dale

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Hi Janice,
Have you checked the Australian TROVE records and any other ship records?
If you check these, there may be something in them that would give a few more clues.
There is one that I see in list but I wouldn't say it's Mary until you can find her in the ship records.

Margot

 

 

 

Margot Secrette

Janice,

Do you think she may be the workhouse orphan girl who arrived to Sydney on the ship Maria on 29 June 1850. She was from Nenagh, Tipperary and there are only two marriaged in NSW of a girl by that name between 1850 and 1860 - one to Richard Hughes at Scots Presbyterian church, Sydney in 1851 and the other to Dennis Donovan in 1853 at CofE St John's Parramatta. I'd love to see some documents that prove she is the one who married Richard Hughes. Cheers and happy new year, Perry

 

Perry McIntyre, Historian of the famine workhouse orphan girls to Australia 1848-1850

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