Puzzling
to researchers of the line of Joseph O'Hara (ca. 1794-1879)
of Drumormina in Killinkere parish in County Cavan in Ireland,
has long been why William Sheils a native of Coolnacola townland
in Killinkere Parish did not appear on the passenger list
of the
Mangerton under that name when it arrived in
Sydney on the 28 July 1855
1,
and why his wife Jane O'Hara appeared on the list as a single
person under her maiden surname of O'Hara instead of Sheils.
Presumably the
explanation why Jane was able to travel on the
Mangerton
under her maiden name of O'Hara was that her travel
authority issued before her 1 Mar 1855 marriage or arrived
shortly afterwards. Although not on the passenger list it is a
reasonable assumption that husband William would have been
on the vessel as either an assisted immigrant under another
name or as a crew member. Married only six weeks prior to
leaving on the first leg of the journey to join the
Mangerton in the south of England for its departure
from Plymouth his pregnant wife Jane would not likely have
departed on the world’s longest migration journey to
Australia leaving behind William to somehow later find a
way to join her there. They would both have come later
on another ship.
Despite the
marriage Jane must have still wished to emigrate with
her sister Margaret and the other relatives who comprised
the O'Hara party on board the
Mangerton. The
problem they faced was how to get husband William
included in the emigrating party, The purpose of this
article is provide a scenario as to how it came to be
that William Sheils was on ship as an assisted
immigrant travelling under the name alias of
his wife's first cousin Samuel O’Hara accompanied by
an unidentified female posing as Samuel's real wife
Martha née McAuley and why William's real wife
Jane O'Hara appeared on the vessel's official passenger
list under her O'Hara maiden name instead of Sheils.
The real Samuel O’Hara
and William’s wife Jane were first cousins. William Sheils'
August 1859 Australian death registration record, for
which his wife Jane's sister Margaret was the informant,
had his mother's name as Ann O’Hara suggesting she was
possiblely a sister to Jane's father Joseph and brother
Samuel Sr. So it seems very possible William and Jane
and Samuel were first cousins!
2,
24
In addition
to William Sheils, his real wife Jane O'Hara, and
William's impostor wife, the family party on the
Mangerton
comprised Jane’s younger sister Margaret O'Hara, Eliza O’Hara
who was a sister of the real Samuel O’Hara, plus two Kellett
sister cousins named Eliza and Jane who were daughters of
Samuel's sister Margaret Kellet who later as a widow came
to Australia herself. Of these Eliza O’Hara in 1859 married
Englishman Thomas Wilkinson in Sydney with her marriage
record listing her brother Samuel as a witness and the
Sydney newspaper notice giving her previous abode as
Lismagiril townland adjoining her parents townland of
Greaghadossan. Lismagiril was also the townland in which
another brother John O'Hara who came to Australia in 1863
appeared as a farm occupier in the 1857 Griffith Valuation
of Ireland
4,
5.
The real identity of the
lady in the
Mangerton party posing as the real Samuel
O'Hara's real wife Martha O’Hara née McAuley will
likely never be known. She stated for the immigration
record her father was dead. Assuming it was factual it
is the only clue to her identity.
READ ON FOR THE DETAILS OF
THIS OVER 150 YEAR OLD DECEPTION
A Second Coming !
The real Samuel O’Hara
and his wife Martha née McAuley actually arrived in
Australia on the 26 May 1855 - about two months earlier than
the same name imposter couple in the
Mangerton party!
They arrived on board the 694 ton
Truro under the
command of Capt. Duncan that departed from Liverpool in
England on 14 Feb 1855 whereas the
Mangerton did
not depart from Plymouth until the 22 April
1,
6.
The couple arrived in company with 315 other immigrants
at Moreton Bay (Brisbane) in Queensland still part of NSW
accompanied by a daughter born during the 102 day voyage who
was named in the immigration record as Martha
7.
However the official birth registration of Martha McAuley's
first Australian born child Mary had the name of her
2 years old sister as "Eliza " but the age of 2 years
in the record confirms Eliza was the child named Martha
born during the voyage of the
Truro 8.
Despite obvious
errors in the
Truro immigration record of Samuel’s
parent's place of residence being incorrectly recorded as
County Clare, and his age as 23 contradicting a then likely
age of 27 derived from the 26 years recorded in the church
register when he married the previous year, there can be no
doubt it was the real Samuel and Martha O'Hara who arrived
on the
Truro. Their native place appeared in the
record as County Cavan, religion as C of E, and that each
could read and write
6. The C of E religion and
ability to both read and write is consistent with the same
attributes possessed by Samuel’s siblings as disclosed in
the immigration record of his sister Sarah who arrived
earlier at Moreton Bay (Brisbane) in 1853 in
the
Florentia 9,
and his sister Eliza who was to arrive on the
Mangerton
two months later
10,
and elder brother John who arrived with his family in Sydney
in 1863 on the
John Vanner 3. All
were identically described as of C of E religion and able
to both read & write. Also in respect of religion the
death record of their brother William, the last of the
Samuel Sr. children to come to Australia who arrived with
his family on the
Peterborough in 1880, indicates
he too would have been C of E as he is buried in that section
of Rookwood Necropolis Cemetery
11. The Samuel
O’Hara of Greaghadossan line, likewise to that of his brother
Joseph O’Hara of Drumfomina, were clearly Established Church
(Church of Ireland) although their ancient Irish surname indicates
at some time in the past an ancestor must have ‘turned his
coat’ from Roman Catholic perhaps in order to hold on to
land or for marriage reasons. (note - the original
R.C. religion of the O'Hara ancestors is definitely
not a line of research worth pursuing as there are no
relevant Catholic Church records going back far enough that
have survived for the Diocese of Kilmore that cover
Killinkere Parish and surrounding parishes).
Samuel O'Hara
Jr. was listed in the
Truro records as a labourer
wth his parents names given as Samuel and Elizabeth. These
parent names are fully in accord with that given in other
accepted sources that his father was Samuel and his mother
Elizabeth Jordan. Martha’s parents were listed as Andrew
McAuley and Elizabeth both alive in County Cavan. Such is
in accord with Samuel and Martha’s Bailieborough District
2 Mar 1854 marriage registration that listed her father as
Andrew McAuley
12.
This marriage was in the Bailieborough Presbyterian Church,
however such only indicates Martha, then of Drumoosclin in
Bailieborough Parish, was at that time a Presbyterian.
The 1856/57 Griffith Valuation had a John McAuley in
Drumoosclin who may have been her brother. However her
likely father was the Andrew McAuley who appeared in Gola
townland ajoining husband Samuel's townland of Greaghadossan
indicating in accord with her immigration record that father
Andrew McAuley was likely still alive when Martha entered
Australia in 1855. Both bride and groom signed the marriage
register confirming their
Truro immigration data
that they were both literate. Samuel was listed as having
a sister "in Moreton Bay" and two sisters in Sydney.
The Moreton Bay sister was no doubt Sarah who had arrived
at Moreton Bay with her cousin/husband Thomas O’Hara in
1853. According to Thomas O'Hara’s 1896 death certificate
the couple initially resided in Queensland for 5 years
so were still there in 1855 when the
Truro
arrived with Sarah's brother Samuel and his wife
aboard
13.
The two then Sydney resident sisters were Mary O’Hara
who married Hugh Wauhop in Sydney in 1852 after the death
of his first wife Jane Edmonstone/dson in
1851
14, 15,
and Matilda who married Andrew Love in Sydney in 1854
who had arrived from Cavan in County Cavan on the
Lloyds
in 1850
16, 17.
Martha’s age of 24 as listed in the immigration record is
the same as the 24 recorded as her age in the register when
she married the previous year in County Cavan so was
approximately correct. The single fact that Martha's record
correctly gave her father’s name as Andrew McAuley and
stated he was still living establishes beyond any reasonable
doubt she was the genuine Martha McAuley.
Give Away Errors
However in
marked contrast to the above noted basic correlation of
the immigration data of the
Truro couple with data
available from other sources, the immigration data recorded
for the bogus Samuel and Martha O’Hara who arrived in
Sydney on 28 July 1855 on the
Mangerton lacked
significant points of correlation, with the only exception
being that of a claimed brother-in-law relationship to
Hugh Wauhope (sic). The very fact the two impostors, in
answer to the question "do you have any relations in
the colony?" answered "a brother-in-law Hugh Wauhope
living in Strawberry Hill" indicates something was not
quite right about the couple. Queensland was still part
of the colony of NSW until separation in 1859. So their
natural answer should have been the same as that given
two months earlier by the real Samuel & Martha,
that Samuel had a sister at Moreton Bay (Brisbane) and two
sisters in Sydney and that Martha had no relations in
the colony. It was not even the case that Hugh Wauhop
was the only brother-in-law in Sydney who could have
been named as such as there was also Andrew Love married
to Samuel's sister Matilda O'Hara. Presumably this
question was one the impostors had not anticipated
being asked so had not rehearsed an answer and on the
spur of the moment were thus only able to provide the
one name of Hugh Wauhop as a relation they had in the
colony. His name would have been well known to all in
the
Mangerton party as his hotel
The True Irishman
in Sarah Ann Street at Strawberry Hill (Surry Hills)
would have been the immediate destination in Sydney
for the party after the immigration board inspection
was completed on 29th July and they were released
from quarantine
18.
As stated
above the real Samuel O'Hara was literate as disclosed by his
marriage registration and accordingly he answered "both" to the
Truro immigration arrival question as to
whether he could read or write. However the false Samuel
(William Sheils) was not literate as indicated by him
having signed the marriage register for his 1 Mar 1855
Billis Church marriage with his "mark"
19,
which his sister Nancy had also done when earlier she had
married Thomas Wilson on 5 Apr 1854 in Bailieborough
Presbyterian Church Meeting House
20.
Such indicates the Sheils children likely had little or
no formal schooling. In Australia William Sheils confirmed
he was not literate when he also signed the birth registration
of his daughter Anna with his ‘mark’
21.
The answer the false Samuel gave for the
Mangerton
immigration record was that he could ‘neither’ read or
write so William Sheils answered that question truthfully.
At the time to have done otherwise likely would not have
appeared a viable option as the official taking down the
details could have handed him a piece of paper and said
"show me" or asked him to sign his name to the record of
his details. In any event it is possible he did not know
whether or not the real Samuel possessed the read/write
attribute. A failure to fully anticipate there would
be specific questions concerning his parents names etc.
to answer at the Australian end as part of the entry
formalities is evident from the several erroneous answers
given by the impostors.
There
is only minor divergence from otherwise established fact
in respect of the religion of the false Samuel and Martha
as it appears in the
Mangerton’s Ship’s List and in
the arrival immigration records compared to the religion
of the real Samuel and Martha. In the immigration record
such appears correctly as Church of England but on the Ship’s
List it was recorded as Roman Catholic. However it seems
the RC in the Ship’s List could have been a clerical error
arising from the couple listed immediately above having
been RC and by an erroneous running down from them of ditto
marks. Such errors could easily have occurred as the
immigration record lists the names in alphabetical order
for each class of person so are clearly a transcription and
collation of the individual records taken at the actual time
of the immigration board inspection. Whilst there are
seemingly reliable pointers to William having been a
Presbyterian, such as his sister Nancy having married in
that church in Bailieborough, and his first child Margaret
born on 1 Dec 1855 at Manning River having been baptised
in the Presbyterian Church
22,
there can be little doubt William was aware from his own
marriage in his wife Jane’s C of I Church in Billis etc.
that the O’Hara family and thus the real Samuel O’Hara was
C of E. Thus as an impostor he would have had no problem
correctly answering the religious denomination question.
The decisive
divergence of the immigration data from that of otherwise
established fact occurred in the names the false Samuel and
Martha gave for their parents and for their own places
of birth. The townland of Greaghadossan given for Samuel
as native place was correct. It is the same the real Samuel
gave for his church marriage record in 1854. So too was
the father’s name of Samuel. However the mother’s name was
listed as Matilda. It should have been Elizabeth who lived
on in County Cavan until 1873. The real Samuel did have
a sister Matilda who was already in Sydney and had married
Andrew Love there the previous year. There is no way anyone
other than an impostor could have made such a glaring
error of mixing up the two names!
In the case of the bogus wife Martha the townland of
Knockbride given as her native place, which may have been
intended to be the Parish of that name, was not strictly
in accord with the townland of the real Martha at least
in so far as her residence in 1854 when she married was
given as Drumoosclin in Bailieborough Parish. However her
answer of Knockbride may be considered correct as
Drumoosclin townland does have Knockbride Parish joining
it on its northern boundary thus the variance can be
viewed as an excusable error of detail and likely only
indicates the Martha impostor was a quick thinker who knew
where the real Martha had lived and had just thought
Drumoosclin was in Knockbride Parish which was almost
the case. However similarly to her bogus husband Samuel
the listing of her parents names as John and Martha with
mother still living and father dead was absolutely not in
accord with the parentage of the real Martha McAuley
as disclosed by other records. The real Martha's 1854
marriage record stated her father was Andrew McAuley
and indicated he was then alive. Whilst an examination
of the 1856 Griffith Valuation for Drumoosclin does not
disclose Andrew McAuley's name as a land occupier there
it does have a John McAuley in the townland who may have
been the real Martha's brother with whom she may have
been living at the time of her marriage. However an
Andrew McAuley who was likely Martha's father does appear
at the Griffith Valuation in Gola townland which joins
Greaghadossan townland where the real Samuel O'Hara Jr.
lived. Such indicates Andrew McAuley would have been
alive in 1855 when the emigration occurred. However
whether he was dead or alive then is of little significance
and may never be established except from later marriage
records of his other children. The salient point in
respect of establishing that the immigration deception
occurred is that each impostor gave a parent name
incorrectly and such of itself totally decides
the matter.
Other Proofs
Compelling evidence
the
Mangerton’s Samuel O’Hara was in fact William
Sheils is also provided from later Australian records. The
first child of William Sheils and Jane O'Hara was born at
the small settlement of Manning River in NSW on 1 Dec 1855
and baptised on 27 Feb 1856 as Margaret O’Hara
22.
Their second child was baptised there on 26 Feb 1858 as
Hannah O’Hara - ‘Hannah’ being the phonetic equivalent of
Anna which is how her given name was subsequently spelt
when her birth was officially registered on 11 Dec 1857
14.
Both baptism records gave the father’s name as William O’Hara.
This establishes that in the then small isolated pioneering
settlement at Manning River, from arrival there between
August and December 1855 up until at least after the time of
the second child's baptism, William used the O’Hara surname
as an alias. He was also likely known as such in that community
right up until his death in August 1859. Having continued
to use the O'Hara name alias after moving to the small
community he would have been locked into its continued use
there although for the purposes of offical records having
legal implications he used his real name. His first child
Margaret was born before the legal requirement for BDM
registration commenced in NSW. That William as informant
registered second daughter Anna’s late 1857 birth under the
surname of ‘Shields’, being a phonetic equivalent of Sheils,
in no way negates the scenario of his continued use of the
O'Hara name in the Manning River community as there were
legal obligations and penalties for failure to correctly
register a birth. Similar applied to his 20 Dec 1858 purchase
of 60 acres at Mitchell’s Island the transfer of which was
recorded under another phonetic variation of his actual
Sheils surname
23.
Becoming a freeholder in a new country was an important
event in the life of any son of an Irish tenant farmer.
William would naturally have purchased the land in his
correct name instead of under the O’Hara surname alias as
he would have feared to do otherwise may have meant his
ownership could later be able to be disputed.
Also when
Jane died on 27 Jul 1886 her second husband John Thomas
Williams as record informant gave the name of her first
husband as Samuel Shields - Samuel being the given
name part of William Sheils
Mangerton alias of
Samuel O'Hara indicating whilst liokely told the
story of the arrival under an alias had misunderstood
or mixed up the real given name with the alias one or
as John Thomas who was a blacksmith by trade may have been
at Manning River when William & Jane arrived in 1855
or had arrived there at any time up to William’s 1859
death he could have even known William personally
before his death by the name of Samuel.
21.
Under the traumatic circumstances of her death from
pneumonia after a 6 day illness which left him a widower
and licensee of the
London Tavern in Elizabeth
Street in Surry Hills with several very young children
John Williams could understandably have just mixed up
the names of Samuel and William when giving the name
of Jane's previous husband to the funeral director for
the death registration record. Such a state of mind is
certainly evidenced by much of the other data he gave for
that record such as Jane’s age at death, age when she
first married in Ireland, and the ages for the three Sheils
children which were all a long way out (i.e. Jane appears
as 56 when she was actually 50 when she died, Margaret
38 was actually 30, Anna 34 was 28 & Susan given
as 36 was 26). Due to the state of mind of informant's
at such times it is common to find errors such as these
on death certificates.
How So?
An overriding
question requiring an explanation is how circumstances
could have arisen in Ireland in 1855 to enable the
immigration as assisted immigrants (with the colony of
NSW paying most of the then substantial steerage fare of
a likely £12 to £15 per adult person - the
average in the 19th century England to Australia was
£17 ), of a couple named Samuel and Martha O’Hara
from Greaghadossan in Killinkere Parish in County Cavan
as
TWO couples each bearing the same names
departing two months apart from different places in
England on separate ships and arriving at places in
Australia separated by a thousand kilometres of coastline ?
On the face of it the O’Hara/Kellett
Mangerton
party would have originally included the real Samuel
and Martha, his sister Eliza, and his four female
cousins plus Jane and her sister Margaret and the two
Kellett sisters Jane and Eliza. The party of six women
would have intended to travel to Australia with Samuel
as their sole male escort/protector. Perhaps when applying
for places in the assisted immigration scheme, or later
after they were advised they had been selected and when
forwarding the required fare deposits to London, married
couples may have been permitted to nominate a month or
time band preference for departure as an alternative to
just being allocated to the first available ship by the
immigration authority. The thinking here is that sometime
late in 1854 or in early Jan. 1855 Samuel for some reason
had an expectation they may not be leaving for a few
months, and at that time it was apparent to him that a
departure if left until then would likely mean the baby
his wife Martha was expecting would be born early in the
voyage to Australia so would have little chance of
surviving the long voyage.
Apart from the obvious hazard to the survival of a newly
born baby through not being able to keep milk down during
prolonged periods of rough weather, Samuel would have
had direct knowledge from his own sister Sarah’s letters
home of her experience of having a baby on her voyage to
Australia in 1853. She and her husband Thomas O’Hara,
the elder brother of Jane and Margaret who came on the
Mangerton, had travelled to Australia two years
previously arriving at Moreton Bay (Brisbane) on 25
April 1853 from Plymouth in the
Florentia after a
voyage exceeding five months duration. Whilst O’Hara
genealogies sighted incorrectly list their first child
Joseph as having been born on 27 April 1853 two days after
the vessel actually arrived in port it is clear from the
immigration records he was born on the high seas. The
newspaper reports of the
Florentia’s voyage stated
12 children were born during that voyage and 12 children
and 5 adults died. The immigration records indicate
about half of the children born on the
voyage died
25.
So there can be little doubt Samuel O'Hara would have
been fully aware of the potential hazard in that respect.
Also the immigration authority strongly advised
intending emigrants, because of the high mortality rate
for children born at sea, to regulate their marital
relationships to avoid that possibility
26.
So the suggested scenario is that upon becoming aware
Martha’s baby would likely be born early in the
Mangerton’s voyage which could have lasted for
up to 5 months, Samuel who it is known could read and
write must have contacted the Colonial Land and
Emigration Committee (CLEC), who was the authority
responsible for arranging assisted immigration to NSW
and the chartering of the ships etc, and either through
an agent in Ireland or by letter direct to London
requested his and wife Martha’s departure be brought
forward by several months so as to permit their baby
to be born after arrival in Australia or at the least
close to Australian shores. Perhaps he just asked for
an immediate departure. It is suggested the request
must have been favorably considered by the immigration
authority and that they were offered an available passage
on the
Truro which they accepted even though
as it turned out their baby Martha was still born on
the high seas. The suggestion is also that the bringing
forward of a departure on account of humane considerations
would likely have been quite unusual as few would have
ever taken the initiative to make such an application
as evidenced by the fact that many babies were born
at sea. Being a departure from normal administration
procedures for allocating immigrants to ships, it must
have somehow resulted in the overlooking of the need
to delete them from the list allocating them with the
other members of the originally intended O'Hara/Kellett
party to the
Mangerton. It is suggested that
such a situation may explain how embarkation documents
could have subsequently issued for places for Samuel
and Martha in the
Mangerton party even though
they had already departed for Australia on the
Truro.
As there is a reasonable assumption available to
demonstrate how it could have come about the precise
way it did is not particularly important.
A suggested
scenario is that following Samuel and Martha having
successfully brought forward their departure date
and departed by steamer from Newry or Drogheda for
the 140 mile trip across the Irish sea to Liverpool
to join the
Truro for its 12 Feb 1855 departure
for Australia, the mails arrived at Killinkere Post
Office with letters confirming the allocation of places
for all seven members of the original family party
including the names of Samuel and Martha to depart
from Plymouth on the
Mangerton, and calling
for the forwarding of the required deposits by postal
order, or alternatively if the offers of places on
the ship had been previously made and the deposits
paid, just enclosing the embarkation documents. The
impending departure of Jane and her sister for Australia,
and a confirmed availability of a vacant Samuel and
Martha O’Hara ‘place’ on the
Mangerton, could
even have been the catalyst for Jane O'Hara's 1 March
1855 marriage to William Sheils in Billis where she
had been born circa 1836
19, 27.
Perhaps another more distant cousin or a friend of
someone in the
Mangerton party, regretful
she was not accompanying the others, was willing to
fill the available vacancy for Martha née McAuley
as the wife of Samuel O'Hara whose identity was to be
assumed by William Sheils.
So off they all went to Plymouth perhaps confidently
expecting the Samuel and Martha alias would succeed as
it did. They may have known of instances of others who
had successfully adopted a false identity in order to
utilise a double booking opportunity arising from
persons having their names down for more than one ship
or arising from a person having been accepted for a ship
but due to changed circumstances having changed their
mind and been unable or unwilling to take up an offered
place, or perhaps even of an identical substitution to
that postulated of a couple who had brought forward
their departure date and departed on an earlier ship
leaving a place on the later departing ship available
to others to go in their place by adopting their identity.
This was a no passport required era when Ireland was
just a part of the UK, and a claimed identity evidenced by
embarkation documents entitling a person to board a
vessel would have just been accepted.
Repercussions
It seems likely
the deception of the false identity to travel to and
enter Australia as an assisted immigrant, accompanied
by a fear he may have incurred a criminal liability
for fraud as the New South Wales government had paid
the fare to which he had no entitlement, and prior to
embarkation not having been accepted by its agency in London
as a suitable assisted immigrant or not having personally made
the required of all accepted a financial contribution to the
fare before the embarkation documents issued, explains why
William Sheils in his early years on the Manning River as a
farm servant continued to use the O’Hara surname alias under
which he arrived. Most likely after arrival in Sydney he was
engaged by an agent for a Manning River employer under that
alias. For the reasons noted he did not use the alias in late
1857 when registering daughter Anna’s birth or in late 1858
when he purchased land not long before his death. However
Anna's 1857 birth registration still evidenced a degree of
deception regarding his identity, as whilst the 1 March 1855
date of his marriage given in the birth registration was
accurate as confirmed by his Bailieborough District Marriage
registration record, the place was incorrectly given as
Knockbride. It should have been Billis located some miles to
the south. Two years after a church marriage a 24 to 25 year
old could not have been mixed up about where his marriage
took place whilst accurately recalling the exact date !
19.
There is just no way a person raised in Coolnacola townland
could have been confused as to where Knockbride was in
relation to Billis - Knockbride parish was north of
Coolnacola and Billis well to the south. Also wife Jane's
Drumfomina residence was only about a mile west of the Billis
Church of Ireland where they were married!
SOURCES:
1
Sydney Morning Herald, Monday, 30 July 1855 page 4.
2
NSW Certificate #879 for 23 Aug 1859 death of William Shiels (sic)
named his mother as Ann O’Hara.
3
NSW Immigration, Persons on Bounty Ships, NSW Archives, Microfilm
reels 2139 & 2481. Record states John O’Hara’s mother Elizabeth of
Greaghadossan was alive then but his father was dead.
4
Advice of Gustav Schaefer who obtained the marriage certificate.
5
Marriage is indexed for 1859 and a notice was in
Sydney Morning Herald
of 13 April 1859, p.8 col. 6.
6
NSW Immigration, Persons on Bounty Ships to Syd. & Newc., NSW
Archives, Microfilm Reel 2472.
7
Moreton Bay Courier and Northern Districts' General Advertiser,
issue of 2 June 1855
8
Advice of Gustav Schaefer who obtained the birth certificate.
9
NSW Immigration, Persons on Bounty Ships, NSW Archives, Microfilm
reel 2464.
10
Copies from relevant microfilm reel of Mangerton immigration records
- provided by Gustav Schaefer.
11
Transcript of death reg. #2302 d. 25 Dec 1911, b. 1831 at Graduson, Ireland.
(i.e. Greaghadossan)
12
Ireland Marriage Records - Vol. 1 for 1854, LDS Microfilm
#0101353, p. 533.
13
NSW Certificate #9825 - 9 Sep 1896 death Thomas O’Hara states 5 years
QLD & 39 years in NSW.
14
Notes accompanying a letter from Gustav Schaefer dated 30 Jan 1999.
15
NSW Death Cert. # 1877-3240 Hugh Wauhop b. ca. 1807 died 2 Oct 1877,
age 70, Petersham, NSW - provided courtesy of Gwenda Andersen.
16
Notes accompanying a letter from Gus Schaefer dated 30 Jan 1999 - married
Matilda O’Hara 9 Aug 1854 Scots Church, Presbyterian, Sydney d. 1903 Redfern,
death index states she was a daughter of Samuel & Elizabeth O’Hara.
Andrew died 5 Jul 1906, Sydney.
17
NSW Immigration, Persons on Bounty Ships, NSW Archives, Microfilm
reels 2136 & 2466 -
Lloyds arrived Sydney 29 Jun 1850 - Andrew
Love, age 19, C of E, could R &W, parents James & Eliza - father
in US.
18
Sands Directory for 1858 and 1859 - prepared late 1857 lists him
as licensee. Also same street is listed a John Wauhop as a dairyman - however
he is not one of the 4 brothers named Charles, William, Hugh and
Joshua, who were sons of Edward & Susannah Wauhop , who came
to Australia in the 1840s and ’50s so is likely another unknown of brother
or cousin.
19
Ireland Marriage Record Vol. 1 for 1855, LDS Church
Microfilm #0101362 p. 513.
20
Ireland Marriage Record Vol. 1 for 1854, LDS Microfilm
#0101353, p. 537.
21
Transcript of NSW birth record #10498 "father - signed with his mark" -
provided by Gus Schaefer.
22
Transcript of NSW birth reg. #1093 v53 , birth 1 Dec 1855, bapt. 27 Feb.
1856 - provided by Gustav Schaefer.
23
Letter from Charles Dulhunty dated 7 April 1998 - "William Sheills purchased
60 acres on Mitchell’s Island, Manning River, being land sold as Lot 10
pursuant to a proclamation of 22 Nov 1858 - Land Purchase Certificate dated
27 Dec 1858, enrolled by Registrar General 23rd June 1859." Manning
River Hist. Soc. 1 Dec 1998 advice to G. Schaefer was land was the Parish
of Oxley, Co. Macquarie Map #21a dated 19 Mar 1958 has portion #63 of 60
acres showing original grantee as ‘William Sheilds’.
24
Transcripts of the death record - provided courtesy of Gus Schaefer &
by Gwenda Andersen.
25
The Moreton Bay Couriey and Northern Districts' General Advertiser,
Saturday, 30 April 1853 ‘Shipping Intelligence’ section, page 2.
26
Robin Haines,
Nineteenth century government assisted immigrants from
the United Kingdom to Australia ; schemes, regulations and arrivals 1831-1900
& some vital statistics 1834- 1860.
27
Transcript of NSW birth reg. #1861-8616 for John T. Williams & Jane
O’Hara’s 1st child Henry James - mother’s birthplace given as Billis, County
Cavan, Ireland - transcript provided courtesy of Gustav Schaefer.