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hello, I have a brick wall with my 3x great grandmother Catherine McArthur who married my 3x Great grandfather, James Makin, in Carcoar it says Bowenfels because the minister was from Bowenfels I suspect. they married in 1844, he was dead by 1849 at Grubenbong nr Carcoar.
when my GG granmother their daughter, Mary, married christopher Donnelly in Goulburn, in 1864 it stated in the Goulburn Newspaper that her mother was Mrs bolston wife of William Bolston. all I could find was a police gazette request for William Bolston to be found for desertion of his wife.

When Catherines other daughter, Elizabeth, Married John Moore, 1865,  in she stated her mothers last name was West. a Catherine west died in the Goulburn Gaol in 1866, she was dying when she was arrested and it states her name was Wilkinson alias West. 

I can find nothing about a Catherine McArthur arriving on a boat prior to 1844 except for one married to Donald McArthur...I think they went to SA.

I can find nothing for a william bolston except his incarceration in the Liverpool Asylum. where did she come from and how did she get here to Australia?
any help at all would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance.

I am trying to find the death, marriage and anything at all about a Robert Reid quarrier of arbroath/St vigeans. Apparently quarriers only worked during the warm weather so the rest of the year they were either HLW or crofters or general labourers. He had a son named Alexander Reid around 1820 I cannot find the birth. Robert married Elisabeth/elizabeth Nichol/ Nicol/ Nicoll and so on...sometime...I have not idea at all about any of their births deaths and cannot find them on the census. any help would be greatly appreciated. cheers, sharon