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Descendants of Patrick McGann
Patrick McGann, son of Patrick McGann and
Mary Butler, was born ca. 1823 in the
village of Golden, Relickmurry & Athassel civil parish,
County Tipperary, Ireland 1.
He died 16 July 1904 1
in Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia, buried
section B 8/2b Cootamundra Cemetery
(headstone erected by daughter Agnes
Harrison née McGann). He married (1)
on 3 Feb 1845 34
in the Roman Catholic Parish of Golden and Filfeacle, Diocese of Cashel
and Emly, County Tipperary, Ireland, Bridget Mackay
who died before he emigrated in 1853. He married (2)
on 2 Dec 1854 2
in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Johanna
Scanlon, daughter of Thomas Scanlon and
Alice Canty, born ca. 1829 in Whiskyhall townland,
Kilmoylan civil parish, County Limerick, Ireland 26 ;
died 26 Sep 1886 2
in Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia, buried
section B 8/2a Cootamundra Cemetery (headstone erected
by daughter Agnes McGann). To have come from Ireland, no matter how long ago, is to be of Ireland, in some part forever. Within our origins we search for our anchors, our steadiness. And everyone's journey to the past is different. In all cases we are drawn to the places whence they came. ... 33 Emigration
Patrick McGann, with his status recorded in the
immigration records as widower, age as thirty and birthplace
in Ireland as Golden village in County Tipperary
in Munster province, with a nine year-old Golden
born daughter Margaret, arrived in Sydney in the then
British colony of New South Wales in Australia with
other 337 immigrants on the Rodney
that left Plymouth in England on 11 Dec 1853 and
arrived after a 94-day passage on 15 March 1854. The only
damage reported during the voyage was
to the rudder on 2 February during a severe gale that
it was said had to some extent lengthened the passage 3.
In 1853 when Patrick and daughter Margaret boarded the Rodney he already had a brother in the colony named Henry whose address was George Street in Sydney 5. After the arrival of the Rodney newspaper advertisements named Henry as a depositor of monies with the NSW Treasury towards Partick and Margaret's government assisted fare and advised after the release of the Rodney from quarantine the named depositors could collect their relatives from noon on 18 March 4. Henry McGann with his age recorded as 26, wife Margaret née Fahey's as 24 and daughter Mary's as 2, and his birth place as Rathcloheen townland adjoining the Golden village in Relickmurry & Athassel civil parish in County Tipperary had arrived in Sydney four years earlier than Patrick on the Lloyds that left Plymouth in England on 19 March 1850 and after a 102-day passage arrived on 29 June 1850. Rathcloheen townland of 365 acres was part of one large farm owned by the Mathew family who in 1785 built Rathcloheen House on it. It is thus quite possible the parents of McGann brothers and their ancestors worked for the Mathew family for several generations. The original Mathew family house was situated two miles from Golden village. It was built in 1670 by George Mathew on his 1500 acre farm and was developed into Thomastown Castle (extant with it's ramparts now in ruins) by his grandson known as 'Grand' George Mathew who died in 1737. He took over the ownership of the farm in 1718 and added forty bedrooms for guest accomodation, a theatre, a banqueting hall, replicas of a London Coffee House, a London Tavern and hired experienced gardeners to create terraced landscapes and gardens, a mile long approach driveway of laurel trees, a bowling green and an ornamental lake and it was said kept twenty hunters stabled for the use of his guests. Thus following the seminal in Irish history 1690 Battle of the Boyne at which the Protestant King William the Third of England defeated the Catholic convert James the Second and, the from 1691 enactment of the Penal Laws directed at preventing the native Irish from practising Catholism and stripping them of customary legal rights, in the lushist part of the county of Tipperary a century before the two McGann brothers were born, when the majority of native Irish were being badly downtroden, those who likely employed their parents were living as luxuriously as could then be had in any part of the world 33. The 1832-33 Tithe Applotment valuations for Co. Tipperary listed no tenant farmers in Rathcloheen townland so it follows as part of the Mathhew farm the townland was then still worked by employees. In the Applotment valuations the closest surname to McGann was McCan with two of the name listed in Clonbeg parish. The 1846 Tithe Applotments valuations have not been sighted but it would be expected same would apply in respect of the absense of the McGann name 9. At the 2011 census Golden village had a population of 269 and and at the time of this compilation in 2015 was the location of a privately owned agricultural themed Museum recalling the days of yore: And threshed their corn with fiery flails. The immigration arrival records of both McGann brothers stated their parents Patrick and Mary were deceased. Civil registration in Ireland only commenced in 1864 so a record of their deaths could only be found in a church parish burial register if in the unlikely event it has survived. It is possible they were among the one million who died in Ireland during an Gorta Mor aka the Irish Famine when the potatoe crops failed in the 1840s. As baptism registers have not survived for the Catholic chapel at Golden before 1833 their birth years calculated from the ages given in the immigration records cannot be verified. Patrick's immigration record had his occupation as labourer and that he could read and write and Henry's as a shoemaker and he too could read and write. Henry McGann must have set himself up in business in Sydney in that trade in George Street at Brickfield Hill as a Henry McGann a boot and shoe maker of Brickfield Hill was made bankrupt in late 1854. In establishing his shoe making busines in George Street in Brickfield Hill, if not in business longlivity he was at least in good company as George Street in Brickfield Hill was where in 1844 the Horden family established a store that in 1905 became the site of the Anthony Horden & Sons department store that was once the largest department store in the world with 52 acres (21 hectares) of retail space 17. The NSW BDM indexes record after arrival Henry and Margaret McGann (née Fahey or Fahy) had four more children born in the colony from 1850 with the last in 1860 registered at Binnalong 37 km from Yass where Henry is BDM indexed as having died the following year. Based on the age of 26 recorded at his arrival in the colony in 1850 he would have been about 37. However the informant for his death registration gave it as 35 and the place of death was recorded in the actual registration not as Binnalong but as Tipperary Gully near Lambing Flat (now Young). Less than four weeks after his 6 June 1861 death upwards of 1000 gold miners assembled in Tipperary Gully and armed with bludgeons and pick handles marched on Lambing Flat about about 5 miles distant where they were joined by about another 2000 intent on driving the chinese from the goldfields. So at the time of his death Henry was most likely working in the gold rich gully for one of the companies operating puddling machines there, of which the remants of six are extant, to wash the clay to break it up and extract the gold 35. Second MarriageJohanna Scanlon AncestryNo NSW indexed record has been noted for Patrick McGann's second marriage to Ireland born Johanna Scanlon. It is said they married on 2 Dec 1854, a date likely sourced to one of her thirteen children's birth registrations, very likely in Campbelltown in NSW 2. Johanna's 1886 death registration named her parents as Thomas Scanlon and Alice Canty. Their Thomas and Alice given names were bestowed by Patrick McGann and Johanna on their second and third born children and following their infant deaths repeated as the given names of later born children.Johanna's father Thomas Scanlan, Scanlan being the surname spelling in Ireland, died before 1852. Civil registration did not commence until 1864 and there are no Catholic Church burial records. His parent's names are not known. It is possible his father was named John but there are also other candidates. He was born in County Limerick in the province of Munster probably in the late 1790s and likely in Ballyhahill townland that was then in the civil parish of Shanagolden in Co. Limerick. The village of Ballyhahill, through which the river Owvaun (or White River) runs before emptying into the Shannon estuary at Loughhill village between Foynes and Glin, is translated into Irish as Baile Átha Dhá Thuile meaning 'the ford at the mouth of two floods' or 'the town of two floods'. The names of Alice Scanlan's parents are known from her brother's Australian death record to have been William Canty and Mary Connors. By the time of the 1833 Tithe Applotment valuations of Ireland Ballyhahill townland and the village of the same name were in Kilmoylan parish adjoining Shanagolden parish. The only Scanlans' listed in the valuations in Kilmoylan parish were a John Scanlan (listed in the National Library extraction as Seanlon) in Ballyhahill townland, Timothy Scanlan in Whiskeyhall (sic) townland that adjoined Ballyhahill townland, and Timothy Scanlan (extracted by the National Library as Seanlan) in Tennakilla townland. In Whiskeyhall townland the Canty land occupants were Patrick Canty (in a private extraction of the LDS church film Pat Canty as "Paul and Party") and Thomas Canty. The only other Kilmoylan parish Canty was a John Canty in Glassgariff townland. The Shanagolden parish Tithe Applotment valuations were done three years earlier in 1830. A John Scanlan was listed as a farm occupant in Ballynash townland in that parish. The next valuation of Ireland known as the Griffith valuation was in 1851-52. In that valuation the blacksmith in Ballyhahill village was a John Scanlan who presumably was the same John listed in 1833 in Ballyhahill townland who was possibly a brother of Johanna's before 1852 deceased father Thomas. He was the tenant of a house on 13 perches of land owned by Lord Monteagle and his forge was situated on land owned or leased to him by a Mary Barratt. No persons named Canty were listed in Ballyhahill village or townland. However in Ballyhahill townland, where the Owvaun river crossed the Shanagolden Road on northern side of the road, as sub-tenants of Denis Cregan who was a tenant of Lord Monteagle there was a Patrick Hynes listed as occupant of a house and garden on 14 perches of land designated section #2b and adjoining him Catherine Hogan occupying a house without garden #2c. It is said a sister of Johanna's mother was Mary Canty who married Charles Hynes whose eldest son was named Patrick 28. However more likely although far from certain this Patrick Hynes, because of the Hynes/Hogan adjoining house occupancies, was the Patrick Hynes who it is said was the 1819 fourth born child of Johanna's mother's eldest known brother Thomas Canty who married Mary Hogan. Thomas Scanlan may have married Alice Canty in the Roman Catholic chapel in Ballyhahill village. However that would not have been the case if in fact as is said Thomas and Alice had in addition to Johanna a daughter named Honorah born in 1822 who married a cousin Patrick Hynes as the RC chapel in the village of Ballyhahill did not come into existance until 1829 28. At the 1851-1852 Griffith valuation there was a Patrick Hynes in Finoo townland the tenant of John Blenderhassell of a house and garden on 27 perches designated section 35b. In a straight line he was situated about ½ a kilometer from where Johanna's widowed mother Alice was listed in the townland as also the tenant of John Blennerhassett of a house and garden on an area of 1 rood and 32 perches designated as section #31b. Four others were listed as his tenants on the same section #31 of whom two, Bridget Canty and a Thomas Canty, each tenanted a house. Possibly Thomas Canty was the Thomas who it is said was Alice's eldest brother who married Mary Hogan ? Alice Scanlan died after civil registration began in Ireland. Her death was registered in 1872 in the Shanagolden registration district. She died on 11 Sept that year in the locality of Whisky Hall in Finnoo townland that today is marked on maps as Whisky Hall located about a kilometer east of Ballyhahill village and five kilometers south-west of Shanagolden village which is about 38 kilometers south-west of Limerick City and about 4 kilometers south of Foynes on the Shannon river estuary. At the 2011 census Shanagolden village had a population of 294 compared to 416 20 years earlier at the 1991 census. In a 1814 published directory of Ireland Shanagolden was the post town for Whisky Hall. The directory only listed "gentlemen" and only one person, an Enright, was listed with Whisky-hall townland as his place of residence and Shanagolden as the post town. A Michael Scanlan esq. was listed as residing in a place named "Atten" with Shanagolden as its post town 31. Shanagolden village main street c.1900 - Limerick Museum Wiskeyhall townland it is found in records variously rendered as Whiskeyhall, Whiskyhall, Whisky-hall, as Whiskey hall in the 1852-53 Griffith valuation map, and today as Whisky Hall. In a 2012 published book a historian from Ballyhahill wrote in respect of the Ballyhahill townland - "In the 1770 map of the Mount Trenchard estate the high ground in the centre of the townland seems to have been called Knockarcoghlan ... Whiskeyhall was the name given to the townland in the Tithes Applotments of 1833" 30. It is said Alice had three known siblings of whom only her brother Michael also came to Australia and that the other two were Thomas, who married Mary Hogan on 28 Feb 1808 in Fedamore Parish in County Limerick and had four known children, and Mary who married Charles Hynes and had at least three children of whom two came to Australia 28. Unlike civil death registrations in New South Wales after the introduction in Ireland of death registration in 1864 the informant was not required provide the parent names of the deceased if known. However they are known from the death registration record of Alice's brother Michael Canty who died in Cootamundra in 1876 that they were William Canty and Mary Connors. As William was not an Irish name it is implied either he or an ancestor further back was of protestant denomination - likely Church of Ireland or Presbyterian. In the Tithe Applotment valuations Canty for County Limerick Canty was not a common surname. Only 15 were listed compared to 82 for Scanlan and 37 for Scanlon. Alice's age of 70 in her death registration was likely an approximation and may have been years out as the informant was Honora Mcinernay of Mount David whose relationship to Alice was recorded as "householder" so presumably was her landlady. Alice's address was given as Whiskyhall and occupation as "Labourer's Widow" and the cause of death as debility of old age not certified by a medical attendant 28. By the time of the 1851-52 Griffith valuation the former Whiskey Hall townland had become just a locality in Finnoo townland. Alice would have been buried in Ardnakisha burial ground of which no trace remains today. It was marked on the 1851-52 Griffith valuation map as located on the south side of the Shanagolden Road 1½ kilometers east of Ballyhahill village and about 350 meters from where Alice was recorded as residing at that valuation. In respect of Alice and her husband - in the words of an unknown poet: Unknown to man, is marked by God. In addition to Johanna the Thomas and Alice Scanlan children included a son Thomas who also came to Australia and it is said another was a daughter named Hanorah who was born in 1822 and married a first cousin Patrick Hynes in Ireland whose parents were Charles Hynes and Mary Canty - Mary having been Alice Canty's sister 23. Johanna Scanlan EmigrationPatrick McGann's second wife Johanna Scanlan was born ca. 1829 in Whiskyhall townland in Kilmoylan parish in Ireland and arrived in Sydney in New South Wales with 279 other assisted immigrants on the Blundell that left Plymouth in England on 18 Jan 1853 and arrived on 5 May. Upon arrival Johanna's age was recorded as 23 thus calculating to a ca. 1829 birth year 5. As with the marriage records Catholic baptism records held by the National Library in Dublin exist for Shanagolden Parish from 1824 so Johanna's baptism date may be available. Whilst there is no confirming record it is possible her emigration was sponsored or facilitated by Lord and Lady Monteagle who are credited with an involvement in sponsoring or facilitating the emigration of about 730 persons many of whom from their Limerick "Mount Trenchard" estate that overlooked the Shannon estuary. By the mid-19th century the Monteagle land holdings in Co. Limerick compried 6,445 acres (26 square kilometers) 27.Johanna McGann née Scanlon (1829-1886) & an unknown grandchild 28 Canty EmigrationUpon her arrival in Sydney it was recorded that Johanna had a farmer uncle in the colony at Campbelltown named Michael Canty. He was a brother of Johanna's mother Alice Scanlan née Canty and is first known family member to emigrate to Australia. He arrived in Sydney with 224 other bounty immigrants on 11 March 1841 on the Portland that left London (Gravesend) on 3 Nov 1840. Also with him on the Portland were his nephews Timothy Hynes aged 26 and his brother Thomas Hynes aged 25, both labourers, who were sons of his sister Mary Canty who married Charles Hynes. According to the prominent Presbyteriam minister Dr. Lang who traveled back to Sydney on the same ship thirty-one of the thirty-three married assisted immigrant families aboard were from Ireland and only two from England.Upon arrival Michael Canty's age was recorded as aged 33, his occupation as labourer, and that his parents were deceased. Both he and his accompanying wife Catherine née Naughton were born in Shanagolden (the town or parish) in County Limerick and were of RC denomination. His wife was recorded as aged 25 and the daughter of Mary Naughton, and accompanying them were Shanagolden born sons 5 year-old Thomas and 2 year-old John, and a born at sea on 24 Feb 1841 daughter Mary 24. Whilst the Portland immigration records had Michael Canty's age at arrival as 33 calculating to a 1808 birth year when he died in 1876 at his residence at Cootamundra a newspaper notice had his age as 79 which if correct would give him a 1797 birth year of instead of 1808 29. As some Irish Catholic church marriage registers had the parties ages and the name of the grooms's father the Shanagolden parish record of his marriage may clarify the 11 year birth year disparity. The first of his six Australian born children Michael Jr. was baptised at Campbelltown in 1843. By March 1849 he was at Binalong working as a shepherd for a Mr. Fitzpatrick at "Cocumbla" when he advertised the offer of a reward for information that resulted in the conviction of persons who stole from his hut at Mount Coghlan £10 in cash and a draft in his favour for £30 on John Hurley of Campbelltown. Likely he was the Michael Canty who selected 40 acres at Manton's Creek near Yass in 1862 and was by 1859 the Michael Canty whose annual appointment as the Livestock Impounder at Yass was notified in the NSW Government Gazette each year from 1859 to 1867. Likewise to Johanna the death registration of her older brother Thomas Scanlon who also emigrated to Australia had his parent names as Thomas Scanlon and Alice Canty. Thomas was born ca. 1827 in Ballyhahill, County Limerick and died in 1905 in Cootamundra, NSW. When aged 28 he arrived in Sydney from Southhampton in England 2 Oct 1855 on the Hilton after a 95-day passage. The ship brought 437 government assisted immigrants to the colony of whom one half were Irish and the remainder English and Scotch 25. Upon arrival it was recorded Thomas had a sister Johanna already in the colony 24. The immigration deposit journals recorded £5 towards his fare was deposited with the NSW Treasury by Timothy Hynes, who would have been his Shanagolden born first cousin who arrived in Sydney in 1841 when aged 26 with his uncle Thomas Canty and a brother Thomas aged 25. Upon arrival the brothers parents were recorded as Charles Hynes and Mary Canty both deceased 24. Settlement & history in NSWPatrick and Johanna's 1855 first born child Mary was born before the introduction from 1 March 1856 in NSW of the requirement to officially register births. The birth of their second child Alice was registered at Camden in 1856 and her death there the following year 1857. Later in 1857 they moved to the Goulburn district where the birth of their first born son Thomas was registered that year. By 1859 they were in the Yass district where they were to remain for the next 16 years. That year the death of 1857 born Thomas was registered at Yass and the birth of their second son Patrick. Also that year Patrick became a landowner in the colony when he purchased land the Yass district in the Parish of Bowning. Indexes to the NSW Government Gazette list a purchase of crown land dated 1 Sep 1859 in the parish where subsequent children birth registrations though to the last in 1874 indicate the family remained until 1875 when they moved to the Cootamundra district 6.Bowning is a small town on the Hume Highway located 14 km from Yass that with the surrounding area had a population at the 2011 census of 713. Johanna's brother Thomas Scanlon (ca. 1827-1905) married at Camden in 1856 (#1269/1856) Ireland born Catherine Nash (ca. 1836-1917) a daughter of Maurice and Ellen Nash of Whisky Hall, County Limerick. From Thomas Scanlon and his wife's newspaper obituaries it is known he also farmed at Bowning before moving to Cootamundra in 1879 where the following year he purchased the Cootamundra Hotel on the corner of Adams and Parker streets 20. In 1876 the NSW Government Gazette, giving his then address as Bowning, listed a lease to him of 1200 acres of crown land in the Parish of Bookham in the County of Harden. In 1880 the Government Gazette listed for auction a conditional purchase of 40 acres (portion #63) in Bowning parish that had been abandoned by him. Thomas and wife Catherine had no children. When he died on 31 March 1905 his 11 Jan 1905 dated will left his estate assessed at £3695 to his wife who was the sole executor. When she died on 17 July 1917 her estate valuation was £5170. In addition to several houses and vacant lands she then owned the "Club Hotel" at West Wyalong. Her will left all her estate to her surviving Nash siblings and Nash nephews and nieces and their children. Johanna McGann's Cootamundra publican brother Thomas Scanlon (1827-1905) 28 Two years before Thomas Scanlon moved from Yass to Cootamundra he was recorded as running a horse in a race at the 1877 Cootamundra race day. A report of his death in the "Turf News" section of The Sydney Mail said he had been a consistent supporter of racing and among many others had owned such good horses as Little John and Lottie. After his 1905 death his widow Catherine continued to race horses and in April 1909 it was reported her consistent mare Lady Amherst (by Amherst out of Lottie) had won five sucessive races races at five different courses - Murrumbarrah, Cootamundra, Goulburn, Tumut, and lastly a welter at Bathurst starting at even money with it and its jockey and trainer it was said being well nigh invincible at country meetings. Although Thomas Scanlon (originally in Ireland spelt Scanlan) leased out the Cootamundra Hotel in 1890 after the death of the lessee James Leahy in 1894 he was by 1896 again the licensee and remained so in the years up to his death in 1905 at about 78 years of age. 18. In the year after his death a newspaper advertisment called for expressions of interest in leasing the Cootamundra Hotel for five or six years at which time the licensee changed from his widow to Michael Maher the husband of a daughter of one of her sisters. Clinton Thomas Cameron Terry took over the hotel on 1 May 1912. Later in 1912 it underwent extensive renovations that put in place new bars, new dining rooms, and additional bedrooms and it was renamed the "Royal Oak". In December 1913 Charles Scott Calman became the licensee and as pictured in the below photo taken after that date the sign of the hotel changed to "Calman's Royal Oak". In later years the building was demolished and rebuilt on the same site as a two-storey hotel that at the time of compilation in 2015 was signed with the original name of "Cootamundra Hotel" - aka the Coota Hotel. Cootamundra Hotel after it was renamed Calman's Royal Oak That Patrick and Johanna McGann moved from Yass to the Cootamundra district in 1875 is apparent as that year Patrick selected at the Gundagai Land Office a 100 acre portion in the Parish of Cunjegong (sic) in the County of Harden where land had been reserved for a village situated about 14 kms south of Cootamundra initially named Cungegong - a name later changed to Moatefield and finally to Frampton 7. Cootamundra was the name of an approximate 50,000 acre pastoral run established by John Hurley in 1847. The town of Cootamundra was proclaimed in 1861 with the first lots in it sold in 1862. The contract for the extension of the section of the Great Southern railway line from Sydney west from Yass to Cootamundra was let in May 1874. Perhaps the expectation the extension would open up the Cootamundra distict to more settlement etc. was the catalyst for the McGann relocation from Yass. The line from Sydney reached Cootamundra in 1877 with the station there opening on 1 Nov 1877. In 1875 when the family arrived the camp for the local railway workers constructing it was at Cungegong where a Post Office that closed in 1965 was opened on 1 April 1875. A railway station was opened in September 1878 initially bearing the name of Cungegong that was changed to Frampton in December 1889. It closed in 1975 and the station building was subsequently demolished. In 1875 in addition to a large railway construction worker's camp other occupants of the Cungegong area included tribes of very large kangaroos. The Sydney Morning Herald on 22 June 1875 reported that a licensed surveyor in the last three weeks killed 80 large kangaroos of which one that held and attempted to crush one of his dogs measured 11 feet and 7 inches (3.5 meters) from the tip of his nose to end of his tail and weighed 207 lbs. (94 kilos). Patrick's initial selection in the Parish of Cunjegong was added to in 1877 by one of 80 acres in the parish and another of 100 acres in 1880. The 80 acre purchase and one of the 100 acre purchases were located just west of the Junee Road (the Olympic Highway) with their eastern boundary adjoining the western side of the Great Southern Railway line from Sydney about a kilometer south-west of the village site as shown below on part of an 1898 map of the parish. Portions 174 and 212 bearing Patrick McGann's name At Cungegong the railway station was at 1272 feet. After clearing presumably the most arable parts of the McGann lands were sown to wheat that initially had primarily a local market but after the coming of the railway could be sent for milling elsewhere. In 1886 a Sydney newspaper recorded that Patrick sold a line of 624 wethers to another through Cootamundra livestock agent Miller and Miller 8. A mention in a 1897 newspaper of his son Thomas as having played the concertina at a dance at the Bawlin Wine Vaults being of Frampton (previously Cungegong) suggests at that time property was still owned in that locality. Unexplained as to whether it was in reference to Patrick, or married son Patrick Jr. who died on the last day of 1887 at age 28 leaving a wife and one child, was an advertisement for eucalyptus oil that ran regularly for about a year in the local Cootamundra Herald newspaper in 1886 and 1887 claiming it was one of the greatest cures of consumption (tuberculosis). It featured a letter dated 22 June 1886 to the manufacturer from Patrick McGann of Cungegong, who it was stated had been on record as a "hopeless case", in which Patrick stated he had suffered from consumption for four or five years and medical men consulted at Cootamundra and elsewhere had been unable to help with the condition continuing to worsen until after hearing of the oil and its wonderful cures and, taking it for six months, he was almost cured and was "a different man altogether" 10. If it was Sr. the oil was amazingly successful in fulfilling the claim in the advertisement it was "one of the greatest cures" of the disease as he lived for another 18 years, but if as seems more likely it was Patrick Jr. who died only months after the advert ceased to appear, as a "cure" it was a demonstrable failure! DeathsPatrick McGann's wife Johanna died on 26 Sept 1886 and Patrick on 16 July 1904 at the Cooper Street in Cootamundra residence of his daughter Johanna Bennett (1865-1913) with his age given by the registration informant as 84 which was three years older than a preferred age of about 80 (so born ca. 1823) based on the 30 years given by him upon arrival in the colony in March 1854 11. The inscriptions on his and Johanna's headstones in Cootamundra Cemetery read that both were erected by daughter Agnes with in the case of Patrick's her Harrison surname indicating it was erected after her 1909 marriage. Patrick McGann and Johanna Scanlon had in all thirteen children born between 1855 and 1874 of whom three died as infants and two did not marry. Including the eleven children of his 1844 Ireland born daughter Margaret Patrick had the fifty-four grandchildren identified in the second and third generation sections below.Children of Patrick McGann and Bridget Mackay were: 1. Margaret McGann,
born after March 1845 in Golden, Relickmurry & Athassel civil parish,
County Tipperary, Ireland, possibly baptised 7 July 1847 in Golden
parish, Diocese of Cashel and Emly, Co.
Tipperary 12 ;
d. 12 Jul 1921 Junee, NSW, Australia. She married 20 Sep
1866 (#3452/1866) reg. Yass, NSW, Australia John Owen,
b. 1827 Somersetshire, England ; d. 21 Sep
1895 (#10803/1895) reg. Yass, NSW, Australia, buried 28 Sep 1895
in Cave Flat, Goodradigby, NSW, son of Thomas
Owen 32.
Children of Margaret McGann and John Owen were:2. Mary McGann, b. 27 Nov 1855 (V1855 3183 72 & reg. #3183/1855 with surname indexed as McCann) in Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia ; d. 20 Dec 1918 (#14643/1918) reg. Yass, NSW, Australia, buried Yass Cemetery. She married 22 Jan 1874 (#4244/1874 ) in Yass, Peter McNally, b. 22 Dec 1843 County Armagh, Ireland ; d. 25 Aug 1932 (#12833/1932) Yass, NSW, buried Yass Cemetery, son of Edward (ca. 1857-1942) and Jane McNally. Mentions of her as having the given names of "Mary Martha" have been noted and the death registration of the eldest son had it as "Mary Jane". However her baptism, marriage and death registrations and Yass cemetery headstone all have her with just the one given name of Mary. Her husband's 1932 newsaper obituary stated he died at the residence of his daughter Mrs. S. Mead of North Yass aged 87 and was a well known Yass resident who was born in Ireland and had lived in the Yass district since a child. It stated he had been an invalid for many years and totally blind for nine and that his wife had predeceased him by about 14 years. The NSW birth indexes indicate they had the below 13 children born between 1875 and 1898 13.3. Alice McGann, b. 1856 (#4165/1856) reg. Camden, NSW, Australia ; d. 1857 (#2489/1857) reg. Camden, NSW, Australia. 4. Thomas McGann, b. 1857 (#6941/1857) reg. Goulburn, NSW, Australia ; d. 1859 (#5637/1859) reg. Yass, NSW, Australia. 5. Patrick McGann, b. 1859 (#14354/1859) reg. Yass, NSW ; d. 31 Dec 1887 (#9648/1888) reg. Cootamundra, NSW, Australia, buried Cootamundra Cemetery (headstone in section B 8/2a erected by his sister Agnes McGann). He married 1886 (#5305/1886), Bridget A McInerney reg. Cootamundra. Only child of Patrick McGann and Bridget A McInerney was:6. Johanna McGann, b. 1860 (#14220/1860) reg Yass, NSW, Australia ; d. 1861 (#5285/1861) reg. Yass, NSW, Australia. 7. Alice McGann, b.1862 (#15322/1862) reg. Yass, NSW, Australia ; d. late August 1938 (#15309/1938) Wallsend, NSW, buried Catholic Section Sandgate Cemetery. She did not marry. 8. Hanorah McGann, "Norah" b. 1864 (#16685/1864) reg. Yass, NSW, Australia ; d. 1902 (#13556/1902) reg. Cowra, NSW, Australia. She married 1887 (#5035/1887) reg. Cootamundra, Francis Thomas Lowe, b. ca. 1860 in NSW, Australia ; d. 9 Jul 1931 (#13168/1931), age indexed as 68 years, reg. Cowra, NSW, Australia. Children of Hanorah McGann and Francis Thomas Lowe were:9. Johanna McGann b. 1865 (#17272/1865), surname NSW BDM indexed as Mc Gann (sic), reg. Yass, NSW, Australia ; d. 21 April 1913 (#8649/1913) Cootamundra, NSW, Australia 15. She married 5 May 1886 (#5292/1886) 21 at Cootamundra, NSW, with her given name recorded in the registration as "Annie", Edward Bennet, born ca. 1855 in Parramatta, NSW, Australia 21 ; d. 8 August 1943 (#24477/1943) 21 reg. Woollahra, Sydney, NSW, son of Edward Bennett. Between 1886 and 1993 they had five children whose births were all registered at Cootamundra. Their history and descendants are given on a web page titled Descendants of Edward Bennet. Johanna Bennett (1865-1913) 28 An advertisement only two weeks after Johanna's death for an auction to be held on 5 May 1913 of the furnishings and effects of the Bennett house in Cooper street indicates the family would have left Cootamundra at that time 16. The records indicate that during her mother's lifetime she was known to her family and the Cootamundra community as "Annie" so as to differentiate her from her mother Johanna. After her mother's death the last two children birth registrations reverted to Johanna as her given name.10. Bridget McGann b. 1867 (#18250/1867) reg. Yass, NSW, Australia ; d. Sept 1933 (#12009/1933) reg. Mayfield, NSW, buried Catholic Section, Sandgate Cemetery 14. She married 1889 (#4830/1889) reg Cootamundra, John R Williams. Children of Bridget McGann and John Williams were:11. Henry McGann, b. 15 Apr 1869 (#20088/1869) Bowning, NSW reg. Yass, NSW, Australia ; d. 5 Aug 1951 (#21650/1951) reg. Temora, NSW, buried Catholic Section Temora Cemetery. He married 1 June 1892 (#3266/1892) reg. Coootamundra, NSW, Australia, Margaret Ryan who pre-deceased him. His newspaper obituary said he had resided in Temora for 31 years and there were three surviving daughters - Vera (Mrs Marshall Martin of Thirroul), Alice (Mrs H Foster of Temora) and Miss Daphne McGann of Temora and one surviving brother William of Cardiff, NSW.12. Agnes McGann b. 1870 (#19262/1870) at Bowning reg. Yass, NSW, Australia (birth surname indexed as McGam) ; d. March 1938 (#2725/1938) reg. Mayfield, NSW, Australia, buried Roman Catholic Section Sandgate Cemetery. She married 1909 (#6143/1909) reg. Temora, NSW, Samuel Harrison, b. ca. 1856 ; d. 7 Dec 1920 (#19563/1920) at Temora, NSW, Australia, son of William H. Harrison and Janet. An obituary for Agnes in the The Catholic Press under the heading CARDIFF said she was survived by two sons William and Ernest and was born at Bowning and her husband Samuel had been a well known Riverina hotelkeeper of Temora, Beekoni, Albury, and Woodstock.13. Thomas McGann, b. 16 Nov 1872 (#19750/1872) Bowning, NSW reg Yass, NSW, Australia ; d. 12 Feb 1948 (#1630/1948 ) Granville, NSW. He married in 1906 (#4098/1906) Cootamundra, NSW, Sarah Ann Washer, b. 3 Apr 1884 (#20458/1884) Cootamundra, NSW ; died 18 Jun 1970 (#23021/1970) Guilford, NSW, aged 88 years, daughter of William James Washer and Sarah Jane. He was listed in the 1903 Commonwealth electoral roll at Moatefield that was originally named Cungegong. It was changed to Moatefield in 1889 and then to Frampton in 1905. His sister Agnes Harrison's 1938 newspaper funeral notice said he was of Tweed River. The last child birth registration at Cootamundra was in 1913 and the next was at Murwillumbah in 1917 indicating he moved to the Tweed between those years. Thomas' death notice in The Sydney Morning Herald of 13 Feb 1948 stated he died at Guilford aged 74 and was late of Murwillumbah.14. William Michael McGann, 1874 (#21729/1874) reg. Yass. NSW, Australia ; d. 1958 (#22070/1958) reg. Wallsend, NSW. No marriage is listed in the NSW BDM Indexes and no newspaper death notice was noted. He was mentioned as a surviving sibling in the 1933 newsapaper death notice of his sister Bridget Williams along with brothers Thomas, Henry (Harry) and sisters Alice and Agnes and in the 1951 obituary of brother Henry of Temora. From the 1940s he resided at Cardiff where his unmarried sister Alice resided at the time of her death in 1938. THIRD
GENERATION
15. Elizabeth Owen, b.
1867 (#18236/1867) reg. Yass, NSW ; d. 22 May 1949 in Burwood,
NSW (#10254/1949), buried Catholic Section Rookwood Cemetery ;
m. 13 Jan 1886 in Yass, NSW, Edward Joseph Geale,
b. 27 Jan 1860 in Yass, NSW ; d. 9 May 1938 in Ashfield, NSW,
buried Catholic Section Rookwood Cemetery, son of John Edward
Geale and Caroline Goodger. They had 12 children born between
1886 and 1903 32.
SOURCES:16. Charles Owen, b. 1868 (#18473/1868) reg. Yass, NSW ; d. 20 Mar 1900 (#4134/1900) in Bowning, NSW ; buried 21 Mar 1900 in Yass, NSW ; m. 1892 (#7974/1892) in Yass, NSW, Rebecca J. Coady. They had 2 children Gladys Barber and Dulcie M born respectively in 1899 and 1902 who died in the year of their birth 32. 17. Mary Ann Owen, b. 22 Feb 1870 (#19167/1870) reg. Yass, NSW ; d. 31 Aug 1922 (#14000/1922) in Temora, NSW, buried Sep 1922 in Catholic section of Temora Cemetery ; m. (#7838/1890) 8 Jan 1890 in St Augustines Yass, NSW , William Thompson Geale, b. 17 Sep 1869 (#7396/1869) in Young, NSW ; d. 11 Nov 1922 (#16636/1922) in Temora, NSW, buried 12 Nov 1922 in Catholc section of Temora cemeteryson of John Edward Geale and Caroline Goodger. Between 1890 and 1913 they had eleven children 32. 18. Henry David Owen, b. 18 Jun 1872 (#19879/1872) reg. Yass, NSW ; d. 11 Nov 1942 in Caboolture, Queensland, Australia 32. 19.  d. John William Owen, b. 1874 (#21737/1874) reg. Yass, NSW ; d. 9 Apr 1895 in Goodradigby, NSW 32. 20. Thomas Patrick Owen, b. 5 Jun 1876 (#22813/1876) in Bowning, NSW, Australia reg. Yass, NSW ; d. 2 Jul 1961 (#27041/1961) in Cabramatta, NSW, Australia ; m. 3 Jan 1900 (#2252/1900) in Tumut, NSW (#2252/1900), Clara Ellen Sexton, b. 19 Mar 1882 (#28459/1882) reg. Tumut ; d. 16 June 1942 (#10508/1942) in Cabramatta reg. Liverpool, NSW, Australia, daughter of James Sexton and Catherine Sheehan. They had 12 children between 1901 and 1920 19 , 32. 21. Harriett Ellen M Owen, b. 1878 (#24903/1878) reg. Yass, NSW ; d. 1 Jun 1905 in Yass, NSW ; m. 1898 (#8661/1898) in Temora, NSW, James Stephen Bliss, b. 15 Apr 1870 (#19144/1870) in Yass, NSW ; d. 1948 (#31225/1948) in Junee, NSW, son of George Henry Bliss and Sarah Ann Furrill. Betwen 1898 and 1908 they had 3 4 children 32. 22. Joseph Owen, b. 1879 in Boorowa, NSW, d. 1962 (#332189/1962) in Campsie, NSW 32. 23. Alice Marion Owen, b. 22 Aug 1881 (#28471/1881) reg. Yass, NSW ; d. 1966 in Burwood, NSW ; m. (1) 29 Dec 1902 (#10495/1902) in Yass, NSW, William H Howard, b. 22 Dec 1880 n Berrigan, NSW ; d. 14 Apr 1912 in Hurstville, NSW, son of George Howard and Augusta Cook. She married (2) 1914 in Junee, NSW, William Charles Christie, b. 1890 in Kiewa, Victoria ; d. 1953 (#8136/1953) in Burwood, NSW, son of William Christie and Lucy Emily Geering. Between 1904 and 1911 she and William Howard had 6 children 32. 24. Bridget Amelia Owen, b. 1883 (#31778/1883) reg. Yass, NSW ; d. 1898 (#16148/1898) in Temora, NSW 32. 25. George Owen, b. 1885 in Boorowa, NSW ; d. 1957 (#29427/1957) in Liverpool, NSW ; m. 1929 (#16318/1929) in Liverpool, NSW, Olive J Kelly 32. 26. John Edward Owen, b. 27 Aug 1886 (#35751/1886) reg. Yass, NSW ; d. 31 Aug 1961 (#25415/1961) in Newcastle, NSW ; m. 11 Aug 1909 in Temora, NSW, Christina Florence Duncan, b. 30 Apr 1891 in Cowra, NSW ; d. 14 Feb 1969 in Adamstown, NSW, daughter of George Duncan and Margaret Waddell. From 1914 they had 4 children - Doris May Owen, Margaret Ellen, Euphemia Florence and Margaret Jean 32. 27. Herbert Robert Owen, b. 1889 (#36426/1889) ; d. 1920 (#5773/1920) in Parkes, NSW. He married 1911 (#672/1911) reg. Albury Lillie R Christie 32. 28. Patrick Owen McNally, b. 1875 (#21983/1875) reg. Yass, NSW ; d. 17 June 1948 (#10446/1948) reg. Temora, NSW (in the registration his mother's names were "Mary Jane"), buried Yass Cemetery with headstone. 29. Mary Jane McNally, b. 1876 (#22826/1876) reg. Yass, NSW ; m. 1901 (#7944/1901) reg. Yass, Robert T Smith. 30. Caroline J T McNally, b. 1878 (#24922/1878) reg. Yass, NSW. She married 1897 (#8247/1897) reg. Newtown, NSW, Charles A Baker. 31. Agnes Alice McNally 1879 (#26422/1879) reg. Yass, NSW ; possibly the Agnes A A McNally who married in 1916 (#4488/1916) reg. Temora, NSW, John V Frazer. 32. Sarah Ann McNally, b. 1881 (#28335/1881) reg. Yass, NSW ; m. 1899 (#4696/1899) reg. Yass, John Meade (or Mead). He was possibly the John Mead who died in 1932 reg. Yass (#12787/19310 and she the Sarah Ann Anastasia Mead who died at Yass in 1960 (#18336/1960). 33. Rose B McNally, b. 1882 (#29299/1882) reg. Yass, NSW - not further traced. 34. Agnes Alice McNally, b. 6 Dec 1884 (#33477/1884), reg. Yass - her parent names are incorrectly indexed as John and Mary. She married 16 Feb 1916, John Victor Fraser. 35. Jessie V McNally, b. 1886 (#35753/1886) reg.Yass, NSW ; m. 1902 (#4100/1902) reg. Gunning, Ernest H E Pye. 36. Edward H McNally, b. 1888 (#37979/1888) reg. Yass, NSW ; likely the Edward Henry McNally who d. 1951 (#15420/1951) reg. Yass. 37. Clara M McNally, 1890 (#38749/1890) reg. Yass, NSW ; no NSW marriage indexed to 1964 or death to 1984. 38. Lilian M McNally, b. 1893 (#39999/1893) reg.Yass, NSW ; m. 1914 (#3215/1914) reg. Yass, NSW, Frederick F Foley. 39. Reuben P McNally, b. 1895 (#28744/1895) reg. Yass, NSW ; d. 1972 (#58598/1972) reg. Kogarah. 40. Catherine V McNally, b. 1898 (#27327/1898) reg. Yass, NSW. She married 1920 (#6837/1920) reg. Yass, NSW, Hebden J Geoghegan. 41. Alice E. McGann , b. 1886 (#22005/1886) reg. Cootamundra. 42. Alice F Lowe, b. 1888 (#18693/1888) 43. Sydney J Lowe, b.1890 (#11539/1890) 44. Frederick W Lowe, b. 1892 (#11931/1892) 45. Flora A Lowe, b. 1895 (#2900/1895) 46. Arthur F Lowe, b. 1897 (#2676/1897) 47. Ivy K Lowe, b. 1899 (#29913/1899). 48. Agnes Maud Bennett, b. 1886 (#21960/1886) reg. Cootamundra, NSW ; died aged 98 on 15 Sep 1984 (#20595/1984). She married 1909 (#9683/1909) reg. Woollahra, Edward Martin Hoffman b. ca. 1889 ; died 7 Apr 1940 (#9610/1940) reg. Waverley with parent names indexed as Martin Hoffman and Mary Josephine, buried Catholic Section of Waverly Cemetery. The Sydney Morning Herald of 18 Sep 1984 carried the death notice of Agnes Maud and on 8 Apr 1940 the same paper that of her husband Edward . It named his children as - Gladys, Gloria, Marie and Norman and also carried as a news item that he had collapsed and died of natural causes when leaving the Holy Cross Church in Woollahra.49. Annie Theresa Bennett, b. 1887 (#22562/1887) reg. Cootamundra, NSW. died 11 Jun 1957 (#24036/1957) reg. Young, NSW, buried Young Cemetery. She married 1917 (#12512/1917) reg. St Leonards, John Edwin B Clarke, born ca. 1889 ; died 1 Feb 1967 Young, NSW, Australia, aged 78. 50. Edward Percy Bennett, b. 1889 (#21930/1889) reg. Cootamundra, NSW, Australia ; died 12 Apr 1968 (#24367/1968) reg. Parramatta, NSW. He married 1921 (#1086/1921) reg. Annandale, NSW, Australia, Florence M Leydin. The death notice of Edward Percy late of Granville was in the Sydney Morning Herald of 15 Apr 1968.51. Alicia May Bennett "May", b. 1891 (#11369/1891) reg. as "Ealicia May" at Cootamundra, NSW ; died 25 NOV 1980 (#2213/1981). She was a nun (mother Mary Alexis) at St Joseph's Home in Young when her father died in 1943. Her death notice with name as Mary Alexis Bennett was in the Sydney Morning Herald of 26 Nov 1980. It had her age as 88 and that she was late of the 'Bethany' Mercy Hospital, Cootamundra.52. Albert Ernest Bennett "Ern", b. 1893 (#11861/1893) reg. Cootamundra, NSW, Australia ; d. 17 May 1980 (#10965/1980) Woolstonecraft, NSW, Australia. Married 1916 (#1916-9319) Marie Emmeline Smith reg. Sydney (reg. as Mary E Smith) ; d. 19 Apr 1977, Collaroy, NSW, Australia, daughter of John Smith and Mary. His only child was Desmond. After leaving school in Cootamundra Ern Bennett joined the staff of the Cootamundra Post Office where on 17 May 1910 the local newspaper recorded he had passed the exam to qualify him as an assistant postmaster. He was the postmaster at several country towns including Leeton and Gosford and at Fairfield and Balgowlah in Sydney.53. Alice V Williams, b. 1890 (#11265/1890) reg. Cootamundra reg. NSW ; d. 1967 (#1967-15824). She married 1915 (#11108/1915) reg. Merewether, Frank John Bertram Pleash, d. 1947 (#1947-10311) reg. Newcastle, NSW. 54. Vida Mary Williams, b. 1892 (#11506/1892) reg. Cootamundra, NSW ; d. 1955 (#1955-22357) reg. Mayfield, NSW. She married 1914 reg. Merewether, Anthony Vosilla, b. ca. 1887 ; d. 1938 (#1938/18560) aged 51 years reg. Newcastle, NSW. 55. Bertie Williams, b. 1894 (#10965/1894) reg. Cootamundra, NSW ; d. 1966 (#1966-33732) reg. Newcastle, NSW. 56. Alfred Vivian Williams, b. 1898 (#32662/1898) reg. Murrumburra, NSW ; d. 1958 (#1958-31268) reg. Newcastle, NSW. 57. Agnes Irene Williams, b. 1903 (#23423/1903) reg. Newcastle, NSW ; d. 1977 (#1977-105686). She married 1943 (#16492/1943) Alfred Sydney Murray reg. Hamilton, NSW : d. 1976 (#1976-104817) NSW. Australia. 58. Agnes V McGann, b. 1893 (#24099/1893) reg. Murrumburra, NSW. 59. Alice P McGann, b. 1895 (#2792/1895) reg. Cootamundra, NSW. 60. Daphne M McGann, b. 1913 (#14843/1913) reg. Redfern, NSW. 61. Ernest Richard Harrison, b. 1910 (#20541/1910) reg. Temora, NSW ; d. 1951 (#18813/1951) reg. Wallsend, NSW. He married 1838 (#14519/1938) reg. Wallsend, NSW, Irene Lily Bennett. 62. Herbert Harrison, b. 1914 (#8781/1914) reg. Temora, NSW ; d. 1914 (3278/1914) reg. Temora, NSW. 63. William Harrison, after 1918 ; d. 1969 (#24776/1969) reg. Hamilton, NSW. 64. William Patrick A. McGann, b. 1907 (#12731/1907) reg. Cootamundra, NSW ; d. 24 Aug 1977 (#20651/1977) (death notice Sydney Morning Herald 26 Aug 1977 - late of Croydon Park). 65. Desmond J McGann, b.1909 (#3027/1909) reg. Cootamundra, NSW. 66. Claude Henry Lowe McGann, b. 1911 (#15017/1911) reg. Cootamundra, NSW ; m. 1947 (#24152/1947) reg. Mosman, Hannah Gaddes. 67. Edna M McGann, b. 1913 (#23200/1913) reg. Cootamundra, NSW. 68. Cecil Thomas McGann, 17 March 1917 (#12912/1917) 2 Murwillumbah, NSW reg. NSW ; d. 2004 Brisbane, QLD ; m. 22 Mar 1946 2 St Andrews C of E South Brisbane, Olga May Wooster b. 12 Feb 1924 2 Brisbane, QLD. 1 NSW State Records (AONSW) Immigrants on Bounty Ships microfilm reel #2467 - recorded Patrick McGann's parents as Patrick and Mary both deceased, his status as widower, age 30 years, and daughter Margaret 9 years, both born Golden, Co. Tipperary, and already in the colony he had a brother Henry McGann residing in George Street in Sydney. It is said Mary Butler was Patrick McGann's mothers full name as per his NSW death registration record #9024/1904 (not verified by the compiler as record not sighted). The BDM index has his mother's given name as Mary. His brother Henry's 1861 death record has only his father's name. 2 McGann family tree (author Carol Keohane) at Rootsweb WorldConnect uploaded 2002 - as researched by her late aunt Dorothy Middleton. 3 Sydney Morning Herald 15 March 1854. Empire of 15 March reported the passage had been 94 days (passage durations include the day of departure but not arrival). 4 Advertisment in the Empire of 16 March 1854 page 8. 5 State Records of NSW (AONSW) microfilm reels #2137 & #2467 for the Rodney and reels #2136 and #2464 for the Blundell. 6 Findmypast.com.au online database indexes to the NSW Government Gazette. 7 The Gunagai Times, Adelong, and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser of 19 June 1875 reported - The following selections were taken up at the Gundagai Land Office on Thursday last - Patrick McGann 100 ac Cungegong. The Wagga Wagga Advertiser of 28 Aprl 1877 reported - Conditional Purchases Gundagai Land Office - Patrick McGann 40 ac, Cungegong and same newspaper of 8 June 1880 Conditional - Purchases Cootamundra Land Office - Patrick McGann Cungegong 100 ac. 8 Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, 9 Oct 1886. 9 See: under link RECORDS the link for a surname index for the 1832-33 Tithe Applotment valuations and 1851 Griffith valuations for Clanwilliam baroney in Co. Tipperary Co. Tipperary GenWeb site. 10 The advertisement was worded - "The Best Medicine Known. COLEMANE & SON'S PURE VOLATILE OIL, THE ONLY GENUINE EUGALYPTE MANUFACTURED IN THE COLONIES. Under the distinguished patronage of His Excellency Lord Carrington, Governor of New South Wales. One of the Greatest Cures of Consumption on record - a hopeless case. Cootamundra, June 22, 1886. To Messrs. Colemane and Sons : GENTLEMEN, — I have been suffering from consumption for four or five years and have been treated by numerous medical men, both here and elsewhere ; and, although they tried their best for me, I got worse. Having heard of your Pure Volatile Eucalypte oil making such wonderful cures, I determined to give it a trial ; and, after using it for about six months, I am almost cured — in fact, I am a different man altogether. You are at liberty to make what use you like of this to let the public know what it will do. Yours, &c., PATRICK McGANN, Cungegong, Cootamundra. Witness : John Barter. Manufactured by COLEMANE & SONS, Cootamundra. Supplied to all stores. May be had of E. C. Mooney, chemist. Price, 1/6. Address — Cootamundra Post-office". 11 Cootamundra Herald Johanna McGann death (parents Thomas & Alice) NSW BDM indexed as 10041/1886. Date date of 26 Sep 1886 as given in the WorldConnect McGann tree cited at 2. Cootamundra Herald Wednesday 20 July 1904 - Mr. P. McGann, Sen., a respected old resident, died at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning at the residence of his son-in-law Mr. E. Bennett. He had reached the age of 84 years. He has been a resident of this district since he landed from his native Erin, being a Tipperary man, fifty years ago ; and his wife died here about seventeen years ago. He leaves five daughters and three sons, and all were presdent to see the last of him, except a married daughter at Newcastle. And on the day in the paper - THANKS Mr. and Mrs. Bennett and relatives beg to thank the many kind friends and neighbours who helped in the nursing of Mr. P. McGann during his illness and for their expressions and acts of sympathy on account of his death. 12 Owen genealogies sighted online have birth dates of 7 July 1844 (i.e. 7 months before her parents married - thus highly unlikely) and 7 July 1847. The National Library of Ireland microfilm #02503/02 (baptisms for Golden parish, Diocese of Cashel and Emly) has a 7 July 1847 baptism entry with parents named Patrick McGan (sic) and Bridget McKay and Rathcloheen townland as a residence, for a child whose abreviated name is not discernable to this compiler but could be Margaret. Following a change of parish priest from Oct 1845 from one with legible handwriting to one whose handwriting was just a scrawl it is virtually impossible to read most entries in the register so if there was an earlier Margaret baptism, say in late 1845 or 1846, it cannot be discerned. Thus whether this child was Margaret or another later born child who died before the emigration is not clear. There are no filmed baptism registers for the period 17 June 1844 to 16 July 1844 thus the 1844 year appears to have been just concocted by altering the year from 1847 so as to align the date with the 9 years of age next birthday given in the immigration record upon arrival in Sydney in March 1854! 13 Goldburn Evening Penny Post, 26 Aug 1932 - OBITUARY - MR. PETER McNALLY - The death occurred at the residence of his daughter, Mrs S. Mead North Yass of Mr. Peter McNally aged 87, a well known Yass resident. He has been an invalid for many years, and has been totally blind for nine years. The late Mr. McNally was born in Ireland, and lived in the Yass district since he was child. His wife predeceased him by about 14 years. Mrs Foley, of Goulburn, is a daughter. Also see his OBITUARY in the Yass Tribune-Courier of Thurs, 25 August 1932 transcribed on The McNally Family History web page compiled by Brad Smith. 14 Newcastle Morning Heralds 4 Sep 1933 - WILLIAMS - Relatives and friends of Mrs. F. Pleash, Mrs A Vossilla and families, Mr. Bert Williams, Mr. Vivian Williams, and Miss Agnes Williams, are kindly invited to attend the funeral of their beloved Mother, BRIDGET WILLIAMS, to move from her late residence 25 Martin-street, Hamilton. This Afternoon, at 2.10 o'clock, for Catholic Cemetery, Sandgate. and WILLIAMS. Relatives and friends of Ms. S. Harrison and family. Miss A. McGann, Mr. T. McGann and Mr. William McGann, are invited to attend the funeral of their beloved sister Bridget Williams --- etc. 15 Cootamundra Herald, Friday 25 April 1913, page 2, Return Thanks - Mr. E. Bennett and family wish to return their heartfelt thanks to their kind friends for kindness and expressions of sympathy in their late bereavement. 16 Cootamundra Herald 29 April 1913. NOTICE - E. H. Chandler has been favoured with instructions from Mr. E. Bennett to sell by public auction his large assortment of Household Furniture and Effects at his residence, Cooper-street on Thursday, May 1st, 1913 - E. H. Chandler, Auctioneer. 17 New South Government Gazette page 2461 - Notice dated 22 Nov 1854 of Creditors Meeting - "In the Insolvent Estate of Henry McGann, late of Brickfield-hill, Sydney, boot and shoe maker, - WHEREAS, the Estate of Henry McGann was, on the thirtheenth day of October, 1854 placed under sequestration by order of the Honorable Sir Alfred Stephen, Knight, Chief Justice ; I hereby appoint a single meeting of the creditors of the said insolvent to be holden before me, at my Office, Supreme Court House, King-street, Sydney on Monday, the fourth day of December next , to commence at 11.30 am, for the proof of debts against the said estate, and for the collection, administration, and distribution of the same ; ... SAML. FREDK. MILFORD - Chief Comissioner of Insolvent Estates. Offical Asignee - John Morris. 18 Cootamundra Herald. 1 May 1880 - Mr. Healy, on behalf of Thomas Scanlon, applied for a new license for the house known as the Cootamundra Hotel, now in the occupation of Mr. P. Johnson. The police had a written objection lodged against the applicant, or rather the applicant's wife, and opposed the application. Mr. Healy contended that the objections were of a most trumpery and frivolous nature, and handed in two testimonials with influential names attached that had been signed in Bowning and Yass. The Bench stated that they were unanimous in granting the application, but fully endorsed the action taken by the police. Cootamundra Herald Wed, April 1905 - DEATH OF MR THOMAS SCANLON - Readers were expecting to hear of the death of Mr. Thomas Scanlon, of the Cootamundra hotel; and it came on the afternoon of Friday last. Being an octagenarian, of tough fibre, and having a big heart, his end was one of actual wear — not of rust or decay or disease. He had lived his span, and he met the call in a truly - manful way. The funeral on Sunday afternoon was a large one. Mr. Scanlon, who is survived by his wife, was one of Erin's typical good natured sons, and he came here from the Yass country over 20 years ago, and purchased the Cootamundra hotel property ; and he became a large property holder here, and he was always a lover of a blood horse and generally had a fleet one or two over the hurdles and on the flat at the local and district meetings. He was also a very useful member of the Borough Council for some years, being of chief service on the works committee. The Yass Courier says :— Mr. T. Scanlon resided in Yass for some years and afterwards had a farm at Bowning, and about query twenty-five years ago removed to Cootamundra. The writer remembers seeing Scanlon and a man named Phillips, who were assisting in the erection of the two-storied building (the property of Mr. Cottrell, in Cooma-street, and now burnt down) and standing on the scaffold at the top of the building when the whole structure gave way. Scanlon and Phillips fell first and the scaffolding, poles, &c. fell on them. Both men escaped in a miraculous manner, only receiving a shock and a few cuts on the legs. The Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumburumba Post Friday 7 Apr 1905 reported - The death took place at Cootamundra on Friday afternoon, at 8 o'clock, of Mr. Thos. Scanlon, proprietor of the Cootamundra hotel. Deceased was one of the oldest pioneers of the Cootamundra district, and was born close on 80 years ago in Ireland. Until recently he was hale and hearty, but some months ago his health broke down, and since the mid summer heat waves he had been in a more or less critical state. Young Witness Tues, 31 July 1917 - DEATH OF MRS. CATHERINE SCANLON - On Friday morning the above well known old resident of Cootamundra, who had been there since 1879, relict of the late Thomas Scanlon a one time alderman, who kept the old "Cootamundra" Hotel, now the "Royal Oak," passed peacefully away after a lingering illness, at the age of 81. Deceased had no family. Messrs Jack and Paddy Nash are brothers. Mrs. Cuzner, of Wyalong, is a sister. Mrs. Hines, mother of Mrs Mick Maher, is also a sister. Old hands will be sorry to see another of the old land-marks gone. 19 Event dates etc. as per Hogan Halwani tree at Rootsweb WorldConnect uploaded 2014 (author Helen Halwani). Thomas Patrick Owen death notice in Sydney Morning Herald 4 July 1961. 20 One of Thomas' obituaries indicated he had another occupation at Yass, seemingly in the building industry, for several years before farming at Bowning. His Cootamundra Herald obituary, quoting from same in the Yass Courier, had - "Mr. T. Scanlon resided in Yass for some years and afterwards had a farm at Bowning". 21 Date and place of marriage as per 1886 registration. Edward Bennett's birth year of ca. 1855 is based on his age of 38 and birthplace as Parramatta in NSW given by informant wife Johanna in the 1893 birth registration of son Albert Ernest. His birthplace as Parramatta and father's name as Edward are as per the 1943 death registration record - all three certificates obtained by and provided courtesy of Johanna McGann (1865-1913) descendant David Bennett. NOTE in respect of Edward's birth year as being ca. 1855 there are conflicting birth years calculated from an age 89 given in his 1943 death registration (so b. ca. 1854), 91 in the newspaper death notice (so b. ca. 1852) and 92 (b. ca. 1851) in a newspaper reporting the attendance at his death bed of son Albert Ernest then the Postmaster at Leeton. 1855 is preferred as is derived from the earliest record sighted which did correctly state the 1865 born informant wife Johanna's then age as 28. Also note there are no NSW BDM indexed Edward Bennett births with a father named Edward anywhere in the colony during the decade 1850 to 1860 with the closest to that decade being an Edward in 1849 (V1849-2580-34A) with parents William and Elizabeth. 22 Message dated 2 Jul 2008 to Rootsweb IRL-LIMERICK mail list from Megan McKenzie advising family and emigration details as given in the book by Kate Press and Valerie Thompson titled West Limerick Families abroad, 2001). 23 Honorah information and first cousin status of her husband advised in an email dated 3 August 2015 by long time family researcher Mary Ozinga. 24 Message dated 18 Feb 2008 to Rootsweb IRL- Limerick mail list from "Kerry". 25 The Sydney Morning Herald 3 October 1855. 26 Upon arrival on the Blundall on 5 May 1853 the immigration record had her age as 23 years so born ca. 1829. Apparently her age in the 1871 birth registration of son Thomas also calculated to a 1829 birth. 27 The principal publications covering the emigration are :- (1) Kate Press and Valerie Thompson West Limerick Families Abroad : A study of the Irish who left West Limerick (2001) (2) Christopher O'Mahoney and Valerie Thompson Proverty to Promise (1991). concerning the emigrants who left the Monteagle estate in Co Limerick between 1838 and 1858 mainly from three parishes around Shanagolden along the Shannon’s southern bank including the estate of Mount Trechard overlooking the Shannon estuary (3) In all Australian State Libraries - Australian Joint Copying Project - Title: Papers [microform] [M976]. comprising about 300 documents dealing with emigration from Ireland to Australia and including letters from 1850-1853 to Lady Monteagle from emigrants etc. 28 Images of Johanna McGann nee Scanlon, brother Thomas Scanlan (1827-1905) and 1865 born daughter Johanna McGann (wife of Edward Bennett) provided courtesy of long-time McGann/Scanlon/Canty family researcher Mary Ozinga. Details of the 1872 Alice Scanlan death registration are as per a Irish Family History Foundation transcript of her civil death registration provided courtesy of same. Alice Canty's three known siblings (Thomas, Michael & Mary) line details provided by same as well as advice that in addition to Johanna and Thomas Scanlan who came to Australia Alice had another daughter named Honorah born in 1822 who is not known to have come to Australia. 29 Freeman's Journal 16 Sep 1876 - DEATHS CANTY - Of your charity pray for the soul of Michael Canty, native of Limerick, Ireland, who died at his residence, Cootamundra, New South Wales, on 5th September 1876, aged 79 years, deeply regretted by a large circle of relations and friends. May the Lord have mercy on his soul. Limerick papers please copy. Cootamundra headstone photo provided courtesy of Mary Ozinga - inscription reads: "OF YOUR CHARITY PRAY FOR THE SOUL OF MICHAEL CANTY NATIVE OF LIMERICK IRELAND WHO DIED SEPTEMBER THE 5 1876 AGED 79 YEARS. 30 Gerard Curtin, Every Field Had a Name - The Place Names of West Limerick, Ireland (2012), page 75. 31 A Directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats and other noted places in Ireland ... To which is added a general index of persons' names ... together with lists of the Post Towns ..., Second Edition collected and arranged ... by A. Leet (1814), page 387. Entry reads - Name of place: Whisky-hall, County: Limerick. Post town: Shanagolden, Resident: Thomas Enright Esq. Note all place names in the directory comprised of two names were hyphenated with lower case for the second word as per the custom such as was with street names being written as Abcde-street. The address of the major landowner Stephen E Rice was thus written as in the directory Mount-trenchard (it was his son Thomas Spring Rice who was created the 1st Lord Monteagle in 1839). 32 Marriage, death and burial dates for John Owen and details of the 13 childen of Margaret McGann and John Owen provided in August 2015 courtesy of Mary Ozinga. 33 Frank Delaney in the intoduction to his book - Shannon, Random House, New York, 2000. He was also the author of Ireland published in 2004 from which part of the Mathew family history is sourced and Tipperary (unsighted). 34 National Library of Ireland, microfilm 02503/02, p. 181 Marriages Golden parish; Diocese of Cashel and Emly, County Tipperary; Nov. 1844 to Feb. 1846. 35 Advised October 2016 by Henry McGann gg grandaughter Sharon Loiterton - that accordng to his death registration Henry McGann Sr. died leaving wife Margaret and four young children aged 13, 11, 9 and 4 years on 6 June 1861 in Tipperary Gully near Young in NSW (in the early gold discovery and mining days named Lambing Flat) at a stated age of 35 years. The cause of death was gasteritis from which he suffered for 12 days without being seen by a doctor until the day of his death and he was buried on 7 June 1861 in the R. C. Section of Young Cemetery where no headstone has been identified. |