Hi Beverley, I'm Lorraine Davidson(nee St Clair). This what I know so far.
MICHAEL MOLLOY b1812 Castlecomer,Kilkenny,Ireland. Transported to Tasmania aboard convict ship Gilmore 1832.
SOPHIA GILES b1826 England. Transported to Tasmania aboard convict ship Garland Grove leaving Woolwich London 02/10/1842, arriving Tasmania 20/01/1843. My gg grandparents.
1849 a daughter Henrietta Giles born to Sophia at Ross Female Factory Tasmania, no father recorded.
1850 24th Dec convicts permission to marry.
1851 13th Jan Sophia married Michael Molloy at St Lukes Campbell Town in the parish church,Michael 36yrs constable, Sophia 25yrs house servant.
Children born to them, 1853 Catherine, 1854 Ellen, 1858 Michael died 1859 convulsions, 1860 Unnamed died 1860, 1861 Sophia died 1863 diarrhoea, 1864 John, 1865 William died 1865 convulsions, 1868 JOSEPH WILLIAM, 1870 Arthur Thomas.
Michael Molloy died 16/06/1870, 5 weeks before Arthur was born.
Sophia moved to Victoria and in 1874 married Strachan William Tinkler. Her children JOSEPH and Arthur took the name Tinkler, and daughters Henrietta, Catherine and Ellen kept Molloy.
JOSEPH WILLIAM TINKLER married Elspeth(Elsie) Inglis Stephen in Victoria 1890, they had 4 children. LESLIE WILLIAM 1893, Cyril Roy 1895, Ettie Evelyn 1897 and Elspeth Irene 1899.
Between 1900 & 1903 the family changed their surname to St Clair. Reason unknown.
Shortly after JOSEPH and Elsie separated but did not divorce. JOSEPH came to New Zealand between 1903 & 1917. Two of his children followed LESLIE WILLIAM & Ettie. Elsie stayed in Victoria with her other children.
JOSEPH remarried, although he wasn't divorced, Kathleen(Kate) Parsons in 1930. I have found their graves.
LESLIE WILLIAM married Elsie Mary Edlin on the 05/04/1920, they had 5 children, twins Phyllis Joan & Mavis Gwen. KEITH WILLIAM,