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Research in Other Countries => New Zealand => New Zealand Completed Requests => Topic started by: GJfromNZ on Friday 05 November 10 01:46 GMT (UK)
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McCloy...I am at present looking for info on McCloy's that immagrated from Ireland about 1850--1900.
Our ancester was is Alexander McCloy,from Co.Antrim and came to NZ 1879,aged 20-odd..married Margaret Whelan ,from Co.Mayo,18-8-1885.He died 21-9-1896 & burried Leeston Catholic Cemetery.....Alex's 14yr old sister Elizabeth came to NZ with him on same ship"Northern Monarch" and she married William McCormick 21-5-1885.and died 20-11-1930 burried Leeston Catholic Cemetery also.
Alex's Parents are listed on his Marraige and Death Certs as Jane(nee McAulay)& James McCloy Co.AntrimI have a list of other McCloys coming into NZ about that time also,
Susan McCloy arrived 14-10-1866..Married.. Francis O'Boyle 27-12-1872 and she died Leeston 31-7-1912
Mary Anne arrNZ 3-1-1868 died Ch-Ch 26-12-1870
Patrick McCloy arrNZ 3-1-1868... marr Elizabeth McCosker1890...he died 8-5-1938
Catherine McCloy arrNZ 3-1-1868....married John Peel Brown 29-3-1875
Martha McCloy arNZ 1869......and a Neil McCloy arrNZ 1870
Jane McCloy arrNZ 1870 Married William Willis1872....had a son Lenoard Willis who married a LeFleeming
.....Any more info....post away . :) :)
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This looks like Alexander arriving
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0aae/
it looks like a few others are here as well
Cheers Janette
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Hiya,
Do you have the children of Susan, Mary Ann and Patrick? If not do you want them posted?
Are you in Christchurch? There are several McCloy probates available, the library may be a good source of information as well. If your family is catholic there are good marrige records and there may be information on the index cards, although in my experience the cards don't have alot of catholic information.
Leandra
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Thanks Janette,thats him.....I have also found a link for the Jane McCloy that arrived 1870,married William Willis in 1873,..they had a son,Lenoard Willis who married a LeFleeming.all lived in NZ..................This is in a Wright Family tree.
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it appears Susan may be listed as Susannah arrived in 1866 on the Bombay,
Cheers Janette
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Patrick,Mary Anne and Catherine arrived on the Mermaid,the girls were originally listed on the single mens page and tranferred to single women.
The girls passage was free Patrick paid 8 pound 10 shillings.
If you click on the open book above "about this collection" you will open the original manifest
Cheers Janette
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Hiya,
Do you have the children of Susan, Mary Ann and Patrick? If not do you want them posted?
Are you in Christchurch? There are several McCloy probates available, the library may be a good source of information as well. If your family is catholic there are good marrige records and there may be information on the index cards, although in my experience the cards don't have alot of catholic information.
Leandra
Hey that would be great if you could let us know that info.........................
We live in Mid-Canterbury,Idid go to the Ch-Ch libarary a few years ago.got the ships lists .
Yep we are Catholic and that seems to be the problem I've got with records back in Nth Ireland as majority
of McCloys there are not Roman Catholic.Trying to find some info on Eliza's parents as Alex is supposed to be her brother.Cheers GJ
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Welcome to Rootschat ..... only on here one day and already found someone else on another thread looking for McCloy's
Only problem is you won't be able to make contact with the original poster as she is deceased.
Cheers
KHP
PS: Hopefully, the other poster will get a notification and will respond.
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Hi there,
Children for Elizabeth and William McCormick
1891 Susan Jane
1893 Elizabeth Annie
Susan married Charles Henry Hawkins 1928
Both are buried at Ruru Lawn in Christchurch.
Elizabeth married Walter O'Neill in 1920 Walter d 1964 and is buried at Leeston.
Partrick and Elizabeth (McCoster)(both buried Sydneham) had two girls
1892 Margaret Mary Sarah Brook
1893 Susan Rosetta
Margaret married Robert French (I think!) in 1914
Both are buried at memorial park Christchurch
Susan lived to a grand old age of 101! Buried in the Sydneham Cemetery Chch.
A lady on RC has a CD with Christchurch cemetery M/I's which may help you.
more soon
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Martha Matilda McCloy married Henry Heathcote Cross 1873
Martha died in 1928, was born in Ireland, Henry died in 1919 age 78 was born in England, both are buried at Bromley, Chch
http://librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/Cemeteries/
1887 James Albert
1880 Lucy Jane m 1903 Henry Edward Sherwood
1878 Martha Matilda m 1903 Harry James Handsides
1885 Gertrude 1912 Samuel Robinson
1882 William Charles m 1910 Christina Olsen
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I can't see any children for Susan and Francis, have you seen their headstones?
I can find no marrige or death for Neil McCloy so perhaps he didn't stay lon in NZ.
A few possibilites for children for Catherine and John Peel Brown, but NZ BMD does not have a middle name for the John and Catherine.
One possible is William Alexander Brown d 1965 buried Ashburton.
http://www.adc.govt.nz/cemeteryRecords/index.html
Does this family have connection to the Methven McCloys?
Leandra
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Went to Leeston Catholic cemetery yesterday afternoon..Found Francis & Susan O'Boyle's headstone......It says....In loving memory of FRANCIS,Dearly beloved Husband of SUSAN O'BOYLE,Native of Co,Antrim Ireland, 6th Sept 1910, 83yrs..........Then below ......Also SUSAN,Native of Co. Antrim Ireland ,died 31st July 1912,72yrs......
Leandra I would be realy interested if anyone can find out the parents names of those McCloys that came out to NZ on my first post........especially Elizabeth and Susan,I wonder if anyone has got any Marriage records?
Thanks for the info you have posted and as yet have not found a connection to the Browns in Asburton.Thanks again.
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Hi GJ,
The best way to find parents would be to get either the death printouts of the McCloys which are $20 from NZ BMD or try to find the Catholic marrige register for Leeston, I don't know if Leeston had a Catholic church or which was the closest, the Canterbury Library is probably a good place to start. I can have a look next time I am in if you are not going to be in Christchurch yourself.
Leandra
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As I don't get into Ch-Ch much during library hours,would be great if you had time to check for us ,when you are next in there..Thanks.
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Thanks for the info and emails.....I paid the money and got the marriage printouts for Elizabeth ,who definitly has the same parents as Alexander....but the marriage records for Susan O'Boyle(nee McCloy)don't list any parents ,so I need a copy of her Death cert now.
..Would still be great to hear from anybody with connections to catholic McCloy's from Antrim or Derry. :)
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This reprint of Susan (Susannah) O'Boyle's will ,died 1912 NZ, has come to light recently. has lots of info and connects Alexander to her as her brother and also her other sisters that were still alive at the time.
The gender and marital status of Irish Catholic testators had a decisive bearing
on the frequency with which they recognized individuals and structures outside
their own household (see Table 3). In general, women willed bequests to distant
kinfolk with greater frequency than men and expressed their religiosity more
resolutely in terms of their testamentary dispositions. Susan O'Boyle of County
Antrim, for example, combined both of these concerns in the provisions of her
will. She devised all her land and personal effects upon a favoured niece, Susan
Morgan, and instructed her executor, Patrick O'Connor, to charge the remainder
of her estate with a series of endowments. He was first to apply £60 for the
erection of two headstones and railings for O'Boyle and her late husband,
Francis, at Leeston, and to use a further £20 to secure the same for her late
brother, Alexander McCloy. After £30 had been expended for the purpose of
procuring masses for the repose of her soul, £ 100 each were to accrue to her sister
Sarah Morgan and niece, Elizabeth Morgan, both of Ireland. An additional £150
was set aside for two nephews and three other nieces from the same family.44
She
devised lesser sums upon her sister-in-law, Margaret McCloy (£90), the wife of
her late brother, and their three children (£90 each), her niece, Ann Probyn (£90),
and another sister, Jane Willis (£50)45
The will of a Galway-born widow, Mary Walsh, was less typical. Her
testament generously bequeathed proceeds of the sale of her properties situated
in Essex and Clothier streets to the Mother Superior of the Notre Dame de
Missions, Christchurch, and stipulated that her clothing be distributed among the
poor.46
By contrast, Alice Leonard instructed the executor of her estate to sell her
freehold property at Barbadoes Street and divide the proceeds equally between
44 These were John, Daniel, Jane, Catherine, and Sarah Morgan.
45 The Will of Susan O'Boyle, 7690/1912, NA-CH; Death Index, 554/1912. O'Boyle's niece,
Susan Morgan, was the recipient of the residue of her estate.