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Westmeath / Maddack or Maddock family of Collinstown
« on: Sunday 01 January 17 18:30 GMT (UK)  »
Dear Rootschatters (Ireland),

I have been very ably and kindly assisted by your counterparts in NZ and Australia, but am now drawing a blank in trying to find out something about the background of my great, great grandmother, Mary Ann Maddack (or Maddock), who was born circa 1844 in Collinstown. At some point between then and 1864 she emigrated to Australia, where she married Thomas Goldburg, a tailor from Plock (Poland) in March of that year.

The above information comes from the birth and marriage certificates of their son, my great grandfather, Nicholas Thomas Goldburg, b. Dec 1864 in Benalla, Victoria (supplied by Victoria BDM).

Somewhat confusingly, the certificates indicate "Collinstown, Wexford" as the place of Mary Ann Maddack's birth; I don't think this can be right - as far as I can tell Collinstown is a village in Westmeath?

Either way, I have been unable to find any further record or information about Mary Ann's origins and background in Ireland.

Looking through your boards I see that this question was raised in passing in another Australia-linked thread a few years ago, but without being resolved as far as I can tell.

Would anyone be able to help or point me in the right direction (parish records, maybe?) on the basis of the above info?

Many thanks as ever for any help you can provide

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Herman George Tankersley Davies: Mary Moodie???
« on: Thursday 08 December 16 22:58 GMT (UK)  »
Dear all

I keep saying I have nearly finished up on the NZ part of my research into my "colourful" grandfather, Herman George Tankersley Davies - and then something else comes up... Is it always like this?

Positively the LAST thing I will ask, honest:

"George" was married to Bollettie Mary née Rasmussen in 1906, and in 1909 they had a son Walter Hansen. By 1911, George  not only had serious money troublse, he was getting bored with poor Bollettie, and basically ditched her and evaded his creditors by skipping off to Sydney with a woman called Mary Moody/Moodie. Bollettie finally divorced George (in absentia) in 1916 (her petition is reported verbatim in the NZ Truth of 21 May of that year - it would be quite hilarious if she hadn't been so badly treated) and subsequently remarried (twice, in fact), living to a ripe old age (d. 1968).

George does not appear to have exactly turned over a new leaf in Australia; in Jan. 1915 he was convicted of fraud and sentenced to two years' hard labour. I can find no record of his doing this "time", but he next shows up in 1917 in Melbourne (which would have been shortly after his release if he served the full sentence), when he basically cons the Nicholas brothers (inventors of Aspro) into taking them on as his marketing manager. With that, he at last found a legitimate niche for his "talents" (lying...), and over the following decades (until his death in 1954) made a great deal of money.

In 1919 he married my grandmother, Eileen Goldberg, and they moved with their rapidly growing family to England. My four small aunts were accompanied by a half-sister, Hermia (b. 1915) and a half-brother, Ellis (b. 1917), presumably from George's previous liaison with Mary Moodie/Moody (both had her surname as their second given names ).

But what about Mary? George and Eileen's Vic wedding certificate of 26 April 1919 indicates his status as "divorced (14-13-19)", but I can find no record of George and Mary having been married (can hardly see when they could have fit a wedding in, what with fleeing creditors and doing hard time...), and no sign of a divorce, either. I also wonder what became of Mary after George waltzed off into the sunset to become a millionaire...?

Of course this is an NZ thread, and I need to look further in Australia. But George clearly took up with Mary back in NZ, and I wondered if there might be some clues as to her origins and background?

Thanks as ever for your kindness

Richard

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Bollettie Mary Hobbs (div. Davies), née Rasmussen
« on: Wednesday 07 December 16 18:21 GMT (UK)  »
Hello - could anyone help?

I am trying to find  out what happened to Bollettie Mary Davies after she divorced my (cad of a...) grandfather, Herman George Tankersley Davies, in Dunedin in 1916 ("George", as he was known, having left for Oz with another woman in 1911 - and that was just the start....).

Bollettie appears to have married a Thomas Edgar Hobbs in 1919, but after that I have drawn a blank. Was there any issue from that match, I wonder, and where and when did they live and die?

I am also, particularly, curious to learn the fate of Bollettie's child with Davies, Walter Hansen (b. 1909): there too, I have found nothing.

Many, many thanks to anyone who can point me in the right direction.


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