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Cork / GALGEY family of Cork City
« on: Sunday 16 February 20 08:44 GMT (UK)  »
If you're researching this name in Cork City please get in touch/reply to this thread.

I'm descended from Penelope Galgey b1810, daughter of Richard Galgey, chandler.

It's a very rare surname and all the Galgeys of Cork City appear related, although exactly how is still a little out of grasp.

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Cork / Are there any useful OFF line resources for Cork City, particularly pre-1835?
« on: Sunday 16 February 20 08:41 GMT (UK)  »
Indexed or unindexed, of any description.

I feel sure I've scoured all on-line resources for my family of interest (Galgey) and I'm missing key parts of the story to tie everyone together.

Are there any off-line resources that would be worth engaging someone to access them?

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Australia / Non-registry Brisbane birth records for 1860s, Annie Mary Hill
« on: Sunday 26 March 17 04:39 BST (UK)  »
Does anybody have experience with non-registry birth records for Queensland?

I have an ancestor, Annie Mary Hill, born ca 1865, with her birthplace given variously as Queensland, Brisbane or Breakfast Creek. Age estimates point consistently to about 1865.

Her parents aren't given on her marriage certificate nor her death certificate. She married in Sydney in 1889 where she was working as a servant. The witnesses were her parents-in-law, so no clues there. She was a spinster, so Hill is her birth name

I'm hoping there may an index of (non-Catholic) baptisms I can look at. I live in Brisbane, and can get to the State Library or to a diocesan office if someone can lead me to hope that might be a fruitful course.

(I should note there is one possible weak match in the registry index, but I'm pretty sure I've tracked that person through to marriage, although I need a certificate to definitively rule them out).

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Australia / Louisa White, "Commissioner for minors", 1847 marriage
« on: Sunday 26 March 17 04:19 BST (UK)  »
Louisa White married John McDonald on 28 July 1847 in a Catholic Ceremony in Sydney and then  in an Anglican ceremony on 1 December 1847. She was about 16 or 17.

Consent for the second marriage was given by the "Commissioner for Minors". (No consent was indicated for the first). I can find absolutely no information about this Commissioner, and I've searched trove, Government Gazettes, and the internet, the last of which only turns up a post I made about this topic around a decade ago.

If I can learn something about the role of the Commissioner, and what this might indicate about the status of her parents, Louisa's exact age, and why his consent might be required, that would be really helpful to me, and would narrow down options for research.

According to Louisa's death certificate her parents were William White, a farmer, and Mary Charity Hall, but I have never been able to track them down, being such common names.

The following are the possible birth places for Louisa:
America: Son John's birth certificate, 1856. Informant: Husband John
Pimlico, London: Son Joseph's birth certificate, 1861. Informant: Husband John
Halifax, Nova Scotia: Daughter Emily's birth certificate, 1871. Informant: Daughter Mary
Plymouth, England: Death certificate. Informant: Thomas Manning, authorised agent.

There are six more children's birth certificates that could be purchased that would provide more data points for Louisa's birth place, but I'm not convinced of the value of that approach, considering what I've already found.

The death certificate also states she spent eight years in New South Wales, but these figures are always rubbery.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

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