Reilly to Australia NOV 1863

[majm]

They had one daughter Sarah Jane in Aus in Victoria Mortlake B:1867.

Do you have a copy of that birth registration?

What to expect on a Vic BDM birth registration :
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=369963.0

·   Details on ALL Certificates for Victoria
·   http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,373754.0.html
·   http://www.jaunay.com/bdm.html
Births   
 Date and place of birth;
 name of child and whether present or not;
 name of parents (including mother's maiden name);
 occupation of parents;
 ages and birthplace of parents;
 date and place of marriage of parents;
 previous children of their marriage noting living or deceased;
 signature, description and address of the person who gave the information;
 names of witnesses;
 date and place of registation.

Vic BDM Online Index is free to search, and images can be downloaded immediately, but you need your plastic card for that as there are fees.

http://www.bdm.vic.gov.au/home/family+history/

I can see a birth registered in 1868 a Sarah Jane with parents as Michael and Catharine O'REILLY (noting the O' prefix) 
OREILLY   Sarah Jane   
father Michael
mother Catharine MacDONNELL    
Reference No. 4441

.......a tree for this family. On Sarah's birth details, it states that Michael and Catherine were married in 1847 in Kilcommon parish.......

Cheers,  JM

[majm]

There's a tree online with Sarah's Vic BDM birth as a miniature in Sarah's profile. 

It is hard to decipher, but I think it has Sarah's birth place (Hexham West? very difficult to read) recorded under the date of birth.  Mortlake is where the birth was registered.   The informant was Mich O'REILLY, father.  Sarah was born 29 Nov 1867, birth registered in 1868. 

So the information about Sarah's parents was provided by her own father.   I think the info given includes:
Michael O'REILLY was married in August 1847 to Catharine MacDonnell, at Kilcommon, Ireland.   
Michael O'REILLY, born Co Mayo, Ireland, was a farmer aged 44 years when registering Sarah's 1867 birth. He gave that his wife was Catharine O'REILLY formerly Macdonnell, aged 40 years, born Co Mayo Ireland.  He signed the register 1 Feb 1868. 

Cheers,  JM

[majm]

Michael O'REILLY's signature (first column, right hand side) shows he was living at Ballangeich when registering Sarah's birth    I wonder if that is a locality name chosen by the O'Reilly family and perhaps it gives a pointer to their Irish origins....   

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~surreal/victowns/B.html  GPS co-ordinates given there.

Cheers,  JM

[Russ Reilly]

I have all this info. Ballyngeich historical society did a search for me and came up empty.
My family tree and all the info is on "Ancestry.com.au" I have a couple of trees running simultaneously. Reilly branch and every branch Reilly are the main ones. I am also in Findmypast which unfortunately is pretty useless.
I have attached the birth cert for Sarah Jane. and James Reilly's (my G/G grandfather's death cert.

[majm]

     For the helpers in Ireland looking up for Russ:

http://prov.vic.gov.au/sort_results?searchid=23&col=FamilyName#sthash.1p7XyhZE.dpuf

The REILLY family on the Commodore Perry passenger list embarked Liverpool England 25 August 1863 for Melbourne,
ALL on ticket 117.
Michael, 38, labourer, Irish
Cath, 36, wife, Irish
Thomas, 11, child, Irish
James 10, child, Irish
Mary 9, child, Irish
Margt, 7 child, Irish
Bridg, 5, child, Irish
Cath, 5, child, Irish
Betsy, 2, child, Irish.


I note the following were also on the same voyage, and I wonder if they were family members for Michael and Cath. 
ticket no. 30897
Mary REILLY, 24, Spinster Irish
Thomas REILLY, 22, Lab Irish

Ann REILLY aged 26

REILLY is a  popular surname in Australian archives, so too is O'REILLY.   

Cheers,  JM

[Russ Reilly]

Thanks JM,
I have Ann, Mary and Thomas as Michaels siblings, however, no sources on this.

Russ

[heywood]

Hi Russ,
I think this is a clearer entry for baptism - (the same as yours but for some reason duplicated)
16 May 1852
http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000632008#page/8/mode/1up

Margaret - the address looks to be Glebe Street - which you would assume is Ballinrobe and the sponsor Mary Ann Stanton.

I know the age is out but that is not unusual or the child may have died and they named a later child after her.

[heywood]

http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000632006#page/2/mode/1up

Difficult to see - just above the paper clip

27th July 1848 James to Mcl Reily and Catherine MacDon.. Glebe (?) Street
Sponsors Patt Maley and Mary ..

Unfortunately marriages for this year and earlier are not there.