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Re: SMITH, QUINN, HOLOHAN, McDERMOTT
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 24 September 17 01:21 BST (UK) »
Following the Drumcoura Smiths/Smyths-

Julia Smith, daughter of Patrick Smith & Mary Holohan of Drumcoura-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1898/02082/1794306.pdf
Here's the family in 1901-
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Leitrim/Drumreilly_North/Drumcoura/1482681
In 1911 Mary is widowed- 9 children/7 living-
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Leitrim/Drumreilly/Drumcoura/646990

Patrick Smith died days before 1911 census-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1911/05403/4508905.pdf
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1911/05403/4508905a.pdf

Based on this death record an the 1901 census it would seem Patrick was born in about 1855, which makes sense in terms of the civil registration records


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Re: SMITH, QUINN, HOLOHAN, McDERMOTT
« Reply #19 on: Sunday 24 September 17 01:30 BST (UK) »
Hi Sharyn

We do not have any photos at all, though I suspect Bathurst gaol records may have one.  Those records are help at NSW SRO and Kingswood which is miles from anywhere ;)

I was surprised that Francis was not mentioned in the notes for Peters funeral, perhaps they became estranged.  Francis seems a pretty free wheeling character and it's possible he did not like the fact that Peter became a Policeman and then a Prison Warder.

Most of Peter and Catherines' children were male and I find that generally the females are the best keepers of family histories.  When I started, Caths mum had a heap of info on her ancestors but no one know anything about the Smith line

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Re: SMITH, QUINN, HOLOHAN, McDERMOTT
« Reply #20 on: Thursday 04 October 18 07:58 BST (UK) »
Hi

Just to let our Irish cousins know, DNA testing has confirmed that Francis and Peter Smith were indeed brothers who both came to Australia.  As well as James of course

Steve