McGuire/Maguire from Cavan to South Australia

[majm]

Of course, if you are looking for a male birth in 1858, then there’s also a Judith MAGUIRE giving birth 18 August 1858 to a male infant, onboard the Frenchman.   So, Catherine Maguire aged 2 succumbed 9 August 1858 from Rubella/Pertussis, and her mum gave birth to their next baby, less than a fortnight later.  This info is on that shipping list link.     Born at Sea, so possibly NOT registered in South Australia's civil BDM.   BUT possibly a SA baptism may have been indexed ?

Cheers,  JM

I'm trying to find out how they got to Australia, I am struggling to find the family in shipping records etc.

[majm]

Hi there

Ben's profile shows he is in Adelaide which is the same city as the State Library of South AUstralia which is listed as a location of a source cited by the transcriber I mentioned earlier.

Perhaps HUgh Maguire was married then widowed and re married before migrating. PErhaps Judith was step mother to the children born in Ireland. BUT I am speculating.

To disgard the  factoid from the relevent  fact   I think BEn needs to investigate deeper into the physical records that support the online listing he is considering re Hugh and Judith/Susan..... He is in Adelaide so he could well Aim to get as close to the primary source as possible.  Any Index is only ever a pointer whether it is a online database or an earlier ticklercard system catalogue or just a list .. it is simply an index so its main purpose is to give pointer/s to source document/s.

Fingers crossed that Ben will be off to his local STate  (public)  Librrary and be accessing their treasures asap

Cheers JM

[Ben Nicholson]

Thanks all for the help. Will definitely look up the source material more thoroughly.