Descendants of Matilda O’Hara Matilda O’Hara
was born ca. 1834 1 in
County Cavan, Ireland and died 11 Jul 1914 2 in Redfern, NSW, Australia. She married
on 9 Aug 1854 3
in Scots (Presbyterian) Church, Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW, Andrew Love, born ca. 1831 3,
4
in County Cavan, Ireland and died 5 Jul 1906 3, 4 in
Sydney, NSW, son of James and Eliza Love.
Matilda O’Hara likely emigrated to Australia in the early 1850s. No record of her arrival in Sydney has been found in the assisted immigration records. It is assumed she came unassisted in company with her elder sister Mary who in 1852 married Hugh Wauhop - a widower and landowner in the Strawberry Hills locality of Surry Hills 5. They were the witnesses at Matilda's 1854 wedding to Andrew Love that took place in the same church in which they had married 3. Matilda's husband Andrew was also a native of County Cavan and, as he was a witness at their 1852 wedding, must have formed a close association with the Wauhops' and was perhaps employed by Hugh. He arrived in Sydney at the age of nineteen years from Cavan in Co. Cavan on 29 Jun 1850 on the Lloyds. Because Co. Cavan has no parish named Cavan his prior place of residence would have been the main town of that name. The immigration record stated his father James had emigrated to America 7. The absence in that record of his mother's abode indicates she was deceased. A ship's list recording of the arrival of his father James Love in the USA has not been positively identified. He was possibly the James Love who arrived in New York from Liverpool, England on 22 May 1849 on the William D. Sewall 8. The first listing of Andrew Love noted in Sydney directories in the Strawberry Hill area was in the Sydney Sands Directory for 1867 when he was residing at 18 Wilton Lane just around the corner from Sarah Ann Street. In 1871 he was at 39 Sarah Ann Street, in 1875 at #11, and in 1876 at #33 where he was also listed in 1879. From 1889 Sarah Ann Street was renamed to Dawson Street. He likely remained at #33 until about 1890 when he moved a short distance south to reside at 34, Wells Street in Redfern where he remained until his death. Hugh Wauhop's will stated the eastern boundary of his Sarah Ann Street property was "a cottage occupied by Andrew Love" 9. Likewise to his newspaper funeral notice Andrew's death registration listed his seven surviving children as - Eliza, Maria, Catherine, Rebecca, Herbert, Charles and Henry.
1. Eliza Love, b. 1855 12 : d. Sept 1925 100 Redfern, NSW, Australia. She married 1879 13 reg. Sydney, John Latham. Her mother Matilda's July 1914 newspaper notices, as transcribed at source #2 below, named her just as Mrs. John Latham whilst the other surviving children were named as Mrs & Mrs implying her husband John was deceased or they had separated or divorced with the most likely being he was deceased before July 1914 and, as the last chid was born in 1884 likely soon after, perhaps John Latham who died aged 35 in 1886 (#1886-2643) registered at Liechhart with no parent names recorded. Children of Eliza O'Hara and John Latham were:2. Margaret Love b. 1857 14 reg. Sydney, NSW ; d. 1957 15 reg. Sydney, NSW. 3. Robert Love b. 1858 16 reg. Sydney, NSW; d. 1958 17 reg. Sydney, NSW. 10 4. Robert Love b. 1859 18 reg. Sydney, NSW; d. 1861 19 reg. Sydney, NSW. 5. William Love b. 1861 20 reg. Sydney, NSW; d. 1963 21 reg. Sydney, NSW. 6. Maria Love b. 1862 22 reg. Sydney, NSW, Australia; d. 19 Jun 1941 23 ,72 reg. Canterbury, NSW; buried Rookwood Cemetery. She married in 1886 24 reg. Sydney, Robert John Kerruish, presumed deceased before Jul 1914 2 - perhaps the Robert Kerruish, son of Hugh and Sarah Kerruish, who died in 1899 25 reg. Canterbury, NSW. Children of Maria Love and Robert J Kerruish were (assumed from BDM indexes):7. William Love b. 1864 26 reg. Sydney, NSW; d. 1866 27reg. Sydney, NSW 8. Catherine
"Kate" Love b. 1866 28 reg. Sydney, NSW, d. 1949 73 reg.
Liverpool, NSW. She married in 1884 99 reg
Sydney, NSW, John Baldock Kelso,
d. 1948 74 reg.
Liverpool, NSW, son of John and Annie Kelso. Kate had the
remarkable record of having her children born over a 25 year
time span. Children
of Kate Love and John Baldock Keslo were:
21. i. Linda Kelso 22. ii. John H. Kelso 23. iii. Ada Kelso 24. iv. Elvina E. Kelso 25. v. Lilly Jane Kelso 26. vi. Rebecca Kelso 27. vii. Norman J Kelso 28. viii. Norris B. Kelso 29. ix. Edith M. Kelso 30. x. Florence M Kelso 31. xi. Donald K. Kelso 9. Rebecca Love b. 1870 29 ; d. 1939 30 reg. Parramatta, NSW. She married in 1891 31 reg. Redfern, NSW, Richard Austen. When her birth was registered it was as "unnamed". When she married the NSW BDM index has her sole given name as "May". The BDM Indexed 1893 birth of daughter Ivy has her mother's name as "Rebecca M.", suggesting she may have been christened Rebecca May, and "Rebecca" was ommitted when the marriage was indexed or was omitted from or unreadable in the marriage record. Children of Rebecca Love and Richard Austen were:10. Herbert Love, b. 1871 32 reg. Sydney, NSW; d. 1938 33 reg. Granville, NSW. No NSW marriage registered to year of death. He was a painter 3. 11. Jane Love, b. 1873 34 - unnamed when birth registered; d. 1875 35 reg. Sydney, NSW. 12. Charles Willoughby Love,b. 1875 36 reg. Sydney, NSW; d: 1939 37 reg. Randwick, NSW. He married 1895 38 reg. Waterloo, NSW, Rebecca M Bridle, b: 1866 39 reg. Redfern, NSW; d. 1946 40 reg. Redfern, NSW. Children of Charles Willoughby Love and Rebecca M Bridle were:13. Arthur H. E. "Henry" Love, b. 1878 41 - unnamed when his birth was registered; d. 1935 42 reg. Redfern, NSW; m. 1916 43 reg. Redfern, NSW, Mary A Hatton - perhaps 1879 born Mary Alice Hatton whose parents were Alfred and Alice Hatton. He was a plumber 3. No children births registered to 1918. THIRD GENERATION 14. John Morris Latham, b. 1880 44 reg. Glebe, NSW (birth indexed as Morris John Latham); d. 1965 45 reg. Auburn, NSW (father's name given as John Morris). No NSW BDM indexed marriage to 1956. He was recored at Redfern in the 1913 Commonwealth Electoral Roll. 15. Emily E Latham, b. 1881 46 reg. Sydney, NSW. She married in 1910 47 reg. Sydney, Henry J Mathews. 16. Arthur Latham, b. 1883 48 reg. Sydney, NSW. An Arthur Latham death, with parents names unknown, was registered at Rockdale, NSW in 1963 (#1963-37060). There was no newspaper death notice. He was most definately not the Arthur Christopher Latham who married Elsie Maud Lane in 1902. 17. Ethel May Latham, b.
1884 50
reg. Sydney, NSW. She married in 1899 (#1899-7088) reg Sydney.
George Jackson. 18.
Mona Kerruish. Deceased before June 194172 when her
mother died. No NSW BDM indexed birth has been found or a pre
1941 death or marriage. Also pre her mother's 1888 marriage
there is no indexed birth of a Mona Love with mother Maria Love. 19. Robert Balellan. A. Kerruish, 1889 51 reg. Woolahra, NSW - his surname at birth was registered in error as as Kerrnish; d. 1968 75 reg. Kogarah, NSW. 20. May Kerruish, b.
1899 52
reg. Sydney. NSW. She married 1920 53
reg. Sydney, Sydney R Puffett. 21.
Linda Kelso b. 1885 76 reg.
Sydney, NSW. She married 1904 77
reg. Sydney, NSW, Harry
Tyler. Children
of Linda Kelso and Harry Tyler were:
46. i. Ada G Tyler 47. ii. Mabel Tyler 48. iii. Jean Tyler 22.
John Henry Kelso b. 1887 78 reg. Sydney,
NSW; d.
1951 79 reg. Newtown.
Perhaps
married 1909 (#1909-10875) reg. Canterbury, NSW, Nellie McKee. No NSW BDM indexed
children to 1918. 23.
Ada Kelso b. 1888 80 reg. Sydney, NSW. No
marriage NSW BDM Indexed to 1956. 24.
Elvina "Elvie" E. Kelso b. 1890 81 reg Sydney, NSW; d.
1892 82 reg. Redfern,
NSW 25. Lilly Jane Kelso b. 1892 83 reg. Redfern, NSW. Perhaps as Lily M. married 1913 #1913-13324) Philip J. Kennedy. 26.
Rebecca Kelso b. 1895 84 reg. Redfern, NSW. Likely
married 1921 (#1921-15306) reg.
Rockdale, NSW, George W. R. Klemann. 27.
Norman J Kelso b. 1898 85 reg. Sydney,
NSW.
Likely married 1927 (#1927-7951) reg.
Paddington, NSW, Amy L. Lovern. 28.
Norris B. Kelso b. 1900 86 reg. Sydney,
NSW -
parents NSW BDM indexed as John D.
Kelso & Catherine. He died 1916 87 reg. Sydney. 29.
Edith M. Kelso b. 1902 88 reg. Sydney, NSW. Likely
married 1914 (#1914-16156), Stanley
D. Roach. 31. Donald Kleman Kelso b. 1910 90 reg. Sydney, NSW. He married 1956 91 reg. Kingsford, Myra Frances Hutchby. 32. Richard Austen, b. 1892 54 reg. Redfern, NSW; d. 9 Jun 1970 11 reg. Lithgow, NSW. He married 1917 55 reg. Hurstville, NSW, Catherine M Noonan. Children of Richard Austen and Catherine M Noonan were:33. Ivy Austen, b. 1893 56 reg. Redfern, NSW. No NSW BDM death was indexed to 1976. She married a Mr. Franklin. 34. Ellen F. Austen, b. 1895 57 reg. Newtown, NSW. She married a Mr. McRae. 35. Lily "Lillian" M. Austen, b. 1897 58 reg. Newtown, NSW. She married a Mr. Constable. 36. Mildred Austen, b 1900 59 reg. Waterloo, NSW. She married 1930 60 reg. Petersham William McInnes. 37. Norman C. Austen, b. 1902 61. He married 1922 62 reg. Rockdale, NSW, Jane Douglas. 38. Henry A. W. Austen, b. 1904 63 reg. Waterloo, NSW. Presumably the Henry A. Austen who married 1927 (#1927-12162) reg. Grafton, NSW, Rita B Avery. 39. Robert George W. Austen, b. 1907 64 . He married 1941 97 reg. Newtown, NSW, Joyce Roser. 40. Francis Herbert Austen, b. 1914 65 reg Canterbury. He married 98 reg. Rockdale, NSW, Dalma May Joy. 41. Frederick C Love, b. 1896 66. No Frederick C Love marriage registered in NSW to 1956. 42. William H Love, b. 1897 67 - five possible marriages for "William H. Love" were registered in NSW from 1915 to 1942. 43. Ernest J Love, b. 1900 68. 44. Alice L Love, b. 1901 69. Perhaps the Alice Love who married Joseph V Murphy in 1926 (#1926-17287) reg. Paddington, NSW. 45. Rebecca M Love,
b. 1902 70.
No marriage registered in NSW to 1956. FOURTH GENERATION 46.
Ada G Tyler b.
1909 92 reg. Sydney,
NSW. 48. Jean Tyler b. 1914 94 reg. Rockdale, NSW. 49. Ivy Austen. She married 1938 71, Richard James Vandyke (or Van-Dyke) reg. Liverpool, NSW. 50. Marion Frances Austen. She married 1943 95 reg Lithgow, NSW, Angelo Butta. Children of Marion Austen and Angelo Butta were51. Richard Austen. He married 1952 96 reg. Lithgow, Yvonne Patricia Carroll. FIFTH GENERATION 52. Lyn Butta. She married ca. 1970, Seamus Casey b. Ireland. SOURCES:1 Calculated birth year based on an age of 80 when she died on 14 July 1914. 2 NSW BDM Index #1914-10046. Sydney Morning Herald, 15 Jul 1914 - FUNERALS - LOVE - The Friends of the late Mrs. Matilda Love are kindly invited to attend her Funeral, to leave her late residence 12, Paul's Road, Waterloo, this Monday, at 1 o'clock, for Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood. LOVE. - The Friends of Herbert and Henry Love are kindly invited to attend the Funeral of their late mother, Matilda ... The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Love and Family are kindly invited to attend the Funeral of their beloved mother and grandmother, Matilda ... The friends of Mrs. J. Latham and Family, are kingly invited to attend the Funeral of their late mother and grandmother, Matilda Love ... The Friends of Mrs. R. Kernish and Family are kindly invited to attend the funeral of their beloved mother and grandmother, Matilda Love ... The Friends of Mr. and Mrs. J. Kelso and Family are kindly invited to attend the Funeral of their beloved mother and grandmother, Matilda Love ... The Friends of Mr. and Mrs. R. Austen and Family are kindly invited to attend the Funeral of their beloved mother and grandmother, Matilda Love ... The Friends of Mr. and Mrs. H. Tyler and family are kindly invited to attend Funeral of their beloved grandmother and great grandmother, Matilda Love ... The Friends of Mr. and Mrs. R. Owen are kindly invited to attend Funeral of their beloved grandmother, Matilda Love ... 3 Gwenda Andersen of Caloundra, QLD. to compiler - letter dated 2 Apr 1999 advised date & place of 1854 marriage and of Andrew's 1906 death - sourced by her from 1993 notes on Love family research by Andrew and Matilda gg grandaughter Lyn Casey. Andrew Love 1906 death cert. registration informants were Richard Austen & John Kelso and it stated he had been a resident of NSW for 56 yrs (i.e. arrived Australia 1850). 4 NSW BDM Indexes #1906-7289 (note - "Andrew" given by the death registration informants as Andrew Love's father's name was incorrect - it was actually James as per his 1850 Lloyds Immigration record) Sydney Morning Herald, 6 Jul 1906 - FUNERALS - "LOVE. - The Friends of Messrs. Henry, Herbert and Charles and Misses Catherine, Rebecca, Eliza and Maria Love are kindly invited to attend the Funeral of their late beloved Father Andrew Love; to move from his late residence, No. 34, Wells-street, Redfern, this afternoon at 1.30 o'clock" - for burial in Church of England Cemetery, Necropolis. 5 Hugh Wauhop's Strawberry Hills locality house ownership from 1848 and 1844 & 1850 Sydney directory listings researched by Sherie McEvoy of Hunter River, NSW at the Sydney City Council Archives with copies of the records provided courtesy of same. 6 7 NSW Assisted Immigration - AO of NSW (State Records) reels # 2136 & 2461 - arrived Lloyds 29 Jun 1850 - age 19, C of E religion, from Cavan, County Cavan, and parents were James & Eliza - father in the America. 8 The Famine Immigrants - Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York 1846-1851 (Baltimore,: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1983-1986), vol. 4, p. 193 - a James Love, age 45, labourer, arrived New York on the William D. Sewall on 22 May 1849 (note - emigrants often crossed the Irish sea to depart from Liverpool in England). As Andrew's mother was apparently deceased before 1850, another perhaps less likely candidate was a James & Eliza Love, respectively aged 58 & 45, who with 8 children aged from 1 to 22 years, arrived at New York from Belfast, Ireland on 13 Apr 1849 on the Huron (vol. 4, p. 62). Note - a Ships List for the William D. Sewall and the Huron would be available from several sources, such as in 2007 by online NARA ordering or from www.ancestry.com that has it indexed that in 1849 two named James Love arrived at New York - images of the records are obtainable and should state whether either's former place was County Cavan. As the William D Sewell James was aged 45 he would have been 28 when the Tithe Applotment Valuations of Ireland were done for Co. Cavan in 1833 so may then have been listed then in Co. Cavan on a farm. Alternatively, as the given name of Robert was likely a name of genealogical significance to Andrew Love and, may have been his grandfather, he could have been listed as the tenant of a farm in the 1833 applotments. 9 Gwenda Andersen to the compiler - letter dated 28 Feb 1999 - advised Hugh Wauhop's will stated his property at Strawberry Hills was "bounded on the east by the cottage presently occupied by Andrew Love in Sarah Ann Street" (will date is unknown - Hugh died 1877). 10 As a second child was named Robert after the death of first it suggests the name had a significance in one parent's ancestry. As it was not an O'Hara family given name in Ireland it seems likely it was the name of one of Andrew's grandparents. The NSW BDM Indexes when issued on CD-ROM in the 1990s listed the birth of both the 1858 and 1859 sons named Robert. However whilst also listing their 1858 and 1861 deaths, it listed an additional two named Robert as having died in 1858, each with different registration numbers. So it had three Andrew and Maria children named Robert dying in 1858 with registration numbers - 278, 786, 896! However the more up to date and corrected online NSW BDM Registry Indexes as at Sep 2007 no longer had the additional two confusing Robert Love death registrations! There were also two named William who similary both died as infants but William did have a known significance in the O'Hara genealogy being a brother of Matilda's who in 1880 came to Australia. 11 NSW BDM INDEXES #1970-25955. Sydney Morning Herald, 10 Jun 1970, DEATHS - AUSTEN, Richard. - Suddenly at Lithgow District Hospital, late of 55 Hill Street, Lithgow, beloved husband of Catherine, loved father of Ivy (Mrs Van-Dyke, of Strathfield), Marion (Mrs Butta, of Lithgow, and Richard (Killara), fond father-in-law of Dick, Angelo, and Yvonne, and fond grandfather and great-grandfather of their children, aged 78 years. Private internment will take place at Woronora Cemetery following Requium Mass at 8 a.m. at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Lithgow, this day. Requiescat in pace. AUSTEN, Richard. - Late of 55 Hill Street, Lithgow, loved son of the late Richard and Rebecca Austen, and fond brother of Ivy (Mrs. Franklin, deceased), Ellen (Mrs McRae, deceased), Lillian (Mrs Constable, deceased), Mildred (Mrs McInnes, Sydney), Norman (deceased), Harry (Bexley), Bob (Vales Point), and Frank (deceased), and loved brother and brother-in-law and uncle of their families. Requiescat in pace. 12 NSW BDM Indexes (#V1855 4221 42B). 13 Ibid #1879-390 14 Ibid #1857-226 15 Ibid #1857-162 16 Ibid #1858-723 17 Ibid #1858-896 18 Ibid #1859-1235 19 Ibid #1861-584 20 Ibid #1861-475 21 Ibid #1863-758 22 Ibid #1862-1819 23 Ibid #1941-8737 24 Ibid #1886-1289 25 Ibid #1899-13725 26 Ibid #1864-1171 27 Ibid #1866-52 28 Ibid #1866-1305 29 Ibid #1870-367 30 Ibid #1939-21645 31 Ibid #1891-6957 32 Ibid #1871-2924 33 Ibid #1938-22209 34 Ibid #1873-1552 35 Ibid #1875-904 36 Ibid #1875-1812 37 Ibid #1939-24845 38 Ibid #1895-1929 39 Ibid #1866-3483 40 Ibid #1946-24269 41 Ibid #1878-1401 42 Ibid #1935-794 43 Ibid #1916-1014 44 Ibid #1880-4861 45 Ibid #1965-39821 46 Ibid #1881-1343 47 Ibid #1910-11046 48 Ibid #1883-255 50 Ibid #1884-4107 51 Ibid #1889-7932 52 Ibid #1899-9443 53 Ibid #1920-15018 54 Ibid #1892-30679 55 Ibid #1917-4099 56 Ibid #1893-26156 57 Ibid #1895-15345 58 Ibid #1897-27131 59 Ibid #1900-8308 60 Ibid #1930- 6061 61 Ibid #1902-8006 62 Ibid #1922-5597 63 Ibid #1904-27904 64 Ibid #1907-8973 65 Ibid #1914-32275 66 Ibid #1896-26689 67 Ibid #1897-36462 68 Ibid #1900-8340 69 Ibid #1901-17741 70 Ibid #1902-17748 71 Ibid #1938-23594 72 Sydney Morning Herald, Fri. 20 Jun 1941 - DEATHS - Kerruish - June 19, 1941 at the residence of her son-in-law 6 Corden Street, Belmore, Maria, widow of the late Robert Kerruish and loved mother of Mona (deceased), Robert and May (Mrs. Puffett), in her 79th year. FUNERAL - 9.45 am. Andrews's Funeral Home, Ashfield for Rookwood Crematorium. 73 NSW BDM Indexes #1949-4452 74 Ibid #1948-23234 75 Ibid #1968-13631 76 Ibid #1885-759 77 Ibid #1904-7913 78 Ibid #1887-1 79 Ibid #1951-26975 80 Ibid #1888-2916 81 Ibid #1890-3185 82 Ibid #1892-11416 83 Ibid #1892-31252 84 Ibid #1895-26288 85 Ibid #1898-360 86 Ibid #1900-18750 87 Ibid #1916-10071 88 Ibid #1902-28528 89 Ibid #1907-542 90 Ibid #1910-175 91 Ibid #1956-18671 92 Ibid #1909-21312 93 Ibid #1912-9220 94 Ibid #1914-28670 95 Ibid #1943-23215 96 Ibid #1952-5108 97 Ibid #1941-23415 98 Ibid #1941-15495 99 Ibid #1884-1556 100 Eliza Love (known as Elizabeth) death year date advised Jan 2019 by David Stitt. Sydney Morning Herald Sep 1925 notices re the death of Elizbeth Latham were - one inviting the relatives and friends of Herbert, Henry and Charles LOVE to attend the funeral of their sister Elizabeth Latham to leave her late residence at 27 Turner-street, Redfern for the C of E Cemetery, Rookwood. Another similary inviting those of Mr and Mrs R Austin (Mrs being a sister) and one similarly inviting those of Mrs G. Jackson, Mr and Mrs J Latham, Mr and Mrs A. Latham, and Mrs R Mathews. |