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Hello all,
Mary nee Quinn was residing in the Elliott's Hotel when she died in 1860, it was owned by E Elliott, if you do a Trove search with the name of the hotel and the address listed on Mary's funeral notice, you will find out more on it.
To whoever has the death record for Mary in 1860, can you tell us all what is on it please.
According to the funeral notice, she was the wife of the late John McCarthy of Shoalhaven, which means he was already deceased (I found a reference in the Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, dated 15 Dec 1859, page 2, says left wife and 4 children).  If these are correct, then who looked after the children of which only 2 I have been able to verify.
For those who have not been here awhile, these are ancestors of one of my great aunts children born in Qld.

I'm back again,
Here is what I have from the NSW pre 1856 films, volumes 1 to 123 we have in our local Family History Centre.
Dad John McCarthy was a carpenter as stated on some of the records (Roman Catholics they were).
****John MCARTY born 5 Oct 1845 baptised 9 November 1845, residence was Darling Downs. (he died 28 Oct 1911 in Qld).
****Clara MCARTY born 21 Jul 1847, baptised 1 Oct 1847, residence was Darling Downs.
****Patrick MCCARTHY born 10 Aug 1849, baptised 21 Aug 1849, residence was Yass.
****George (alias George Daniel) MCCARTY born 9 Jun 1851, baptised 10 Jun 1851, residence was  Kilmore, registered in NSW. One of his sons, Daniel, married my great aunt Rosa Eliza nee CAMPENELLA (she was recorded on her birth certificate as this spelling of her maiden name, alias Theresa Elizabeth CAMPANELLA) and they had only 2 sons.
****Charles MCCARTHY born 23 Mar 1848, baptised 6 Apr 1848, residence was Wollongong.
Any others would be on the other films of which you all need to verify from the NSW BDM Registry office in Sydney.
****Thomas MCCARTHY born Kilmore Victoria registration number 6008, died in Qld 13 Oct 1890 registration number 001077, parents as John and Mary nee Quinn.
****Dad John.....nil birth/baptism found in NSW, Victoria or Qld may not have been registered, as a lot of people were never registered in the early years in all of the states.
Hope this helps some of you, and I never got to meet my great aunt Rosa or her hubby Daniel, he died in 1953, a year after I was born.
bye for now and happy hunting.

 

To all,
Mistake on Sam Lovatt's death place, should read Staffordshire where he lived.  Death details previously mentioned belonged to another army man, his in-law.
from cristiane.

Just to hand re Samuel Lovatt, senior.  Thanks to "Find My Past" for adding more census records etc.  I was never able to find the rest of the family past the 1841 census in Staffordshire (other than the 2 sisters of whom the eldest was my direct ancestor).
Finally found them in Banwell, Somerset, Samuel's wife Mary (nee Gurkin) died there and he remarried again some years before his death.
My dau-in-law and I have come to the conclusion that the Staffordshire reference death may be his son Sam who I have been unable to trace.
I just need to be a bit richer to contact the Royal Artillery Association (Firepower) re the whereabouts of their regiments pre 1851.  I have copies from after 1856, just takes some reading to understand the pages.
cristiane.

If you go into the Google site and type in ''Cambria" you will find out just where in the region of Wales it was. 
Very interesting this site was and very informative.
Also states that it is an 'old' name for Wales.
Have fun searching Google.

To all,
Mistake on Sam Lovatt's death place, should read Staffordshire where he lived.  Death details previously mentioned belonged to another army man, his in-law.
from cristiane.