Here's a bio reference to Billy HUGHES and Elizabeth CUTTS
Hughes migrated to Queensland in 1884, aged 22. For the next two years he worked in the bush before arriving in Sydney as a galley-hand on a coastal steamer. He boarded in Moore Park, where he and his landlady’s daughter, Elizabeth Cutts began a de facto marriage. Their daughter Ethel, the first of the couple’s six children, was born in 1889. In 1890 the family moved to Balmain and lived in a weatherboard building in Beattie Street in this waterfront suburb of wharves and working class cottages. In 1891 they opened a mixed shop in their house. Hughes did odd jobs, including umbrella-mending, and Elizabeth Cutts took in washing.
In 1894 Hughes worked in outback New South Wales as an organiser for the Amalgamated Shearers Union. Elizabeth Cutts managed the Balmain shop and raised their two infant daughters. Their son had died in 1892, a year after his birth.
These seem to be the children:
Wife: Elizabeth Cutts (common law marriage, d. 1-Sep-1906, three sons, three daughters)
Daughter: Ethel (b. 1889)
Son: William (b. 1891)
Daughter: Lily (b. 1893)
Daughter: Dolly (b. 1895)
Son: Ernest (b. 1897)
Son: Charles (b. 1899)
Ithink it's already been established that CUTTS is the maiden surname of Anne McLellan, mother of Elizabeth and grandmother of Bertha and Constance.
Judith
