Request: Richard McCarthy - Makaraka Cemetery Gisborne

[lamahorse]

Hi everyone;

I have a request if anyone is available to help. It had been family rumour that a great-great uncle of mine emigrated from Mohonagh, Skibbereen to New Zealand. Unfortunately for months, I had been unable to find anything. After noticing that there is only one Richard in the electoral rolls; This morning however a simple google search found this man; exactly.

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=PBH19201019.2.8&l=mi&e=-------10--1----0--

This is exactly who I was looking for. His baptism date was 1864 (http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/66ea650181274).

Searching various cemetery websites; it seems Richard was buried in Makaraka Cemetery.

Details for Richard McCarthy
Surname:   McCarthy
Forenames:   Richard
Gender:   Male
Age group:   Adult
Age:   58
Last known address:   Unknown
Type:   Burial
Date of Burial:   20/10/1920
Cemetery:   Makaraka
Block:   MKG
Plot #:   701
Warrant Number:   3333

I'm just wondering if there has been a survey of this cemetery? Does his headstone exist?

Furthermore; during the 1950s; his children came to visit the family farm in Mohonagh, Skibbereen. Not much is remembered about this but I've been trying to find if this is true as I cannot find any record of him having any children with his wife Marjorie Mary McCarthy (nee Walsh).

Thanks in advance!

[Janette]

Hello and welcome to the NZ board,I can see a son on NZ BDM's for this couple

1908/974 McCarthy  Henry John to Marjorie and Richard

This is their marriage
1901/2839 Marjorie Mary  Walsh to Richard  McCarthy 


Cheers Janette

[Janette]

Two more children with Marjory rather than Marjorie

1902/12964 McCarthy  Leonora  Marjory Richard
1906/5800 McCarthy  Myrtle Julia  Marjory Richard 


Cheers Janette

[lamahorse]

Julia Myrtle also is buried in the same cemetery. She was buried the same year as her birth; 1906. I also found that they had a son; John Henry in 1908. He appears to have died in 1946.

Leonora married a Graham Jackson. I cannot determine whether they had children or not but they are listed as dying on the same BDM website in the 1970s.

Thanks Janette. Any ideas on finding any of Richard's issue? Anyone have any idea how to find if John Henry married?

[Janette]

Leonora and Graham are buried in another Gisborne cemetery Taruheru cemetery

There is a photo of their headstone and the inscription reads

In loving memory of LEONORA JACKSON, loved wife and mother, died 18 March 1970 aged 68 years; R.I.P WILLIAM JACKSON, loved husband and father, died 5 July 1976 aged 73 years. R.I.P.

So obviously there were children,maybe someone could do a look up in the newspaper for a death notice that may name the children,

Cheers Janette

[Janette]

Here is the death notice for Richard

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0yjb/

Cheers Janette

[Janette]

Leonora married a Graham Jackson. I cannot determine whether they had children or not but they are listed as dying on the same BDM website in the 1970s.

Their marriage
1927/4046 Leonora  McCarthy to William Graham  Jackson 

[Janette]

There are probates for both Jacksons

AAOY 21078 W3298/574  0631/76  JACKSON William Graham  1976   Wgtn

http://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=22999782

BAJI 1595/Box2  54/1970  JACKSON Leonora - Makauri - Married Woman  1970 Akld

http://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=1181026

a look up of William Graham's may give childrens names


Cheers Janette

[lamahorse]

I've requested to view both probates.

http://photonews.org.nz/gisborne/issue/GPN73_19600714/t1-body-d4.html

These are some of the children of Leonora McCarthy and William Graham Jackson. My great aunt recognises them as the ladies who came to visit Mohanagh in the 1960s.

John Henry McCarthy died in 1946. Is it possible to find out if he served in WWII? I'm guessing due to the proximity of Japanese expansion during the war meant that a large chuck of the male population of New Zealand was conscripted. Ancestry doesn't have much records for WWII.

Any land records to find out where exactly he farmed in Gisborne? Land usually remains in families so any Jackson with Richard McCarthy's former farm is definitely a relation as it doesn't seem that John Henry sired any children.

And once again Janette, thanks a million.