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Hmmm... looking at the dates, we’re missing two children (possibly including the 13 year old mentioned above, but including one in NZ). This one definitely fits with the John Smith who arrived in Tasmania on the Palmyra and the Mary Doyle on the Arabian.

Yes, we believe so. (Of course, with those names it’s going to be hard to be 100% sure).

Must figure out if Governor Browne was Tasmania or NZ (don’t recognise him as NZ, but that doesn’t mean much).

It’s actually kinda interesting to read it again in light of the potential evidence we found on Friday... Apparently this mentions an older sibling of 13 - maybe the one left in Melbourne. (Note: I’m struggling to read the writing, so going by what my co-researcher has read). (Second note: this links to page 11, but it continues on pages 12 and 13).
https://stors.tas.gov.au/SWD26-1-6$init=SWD26-1-6p013?fbclid=IwAR2Hu3I4ib-frhTgMKqVeSC6-D6eHIDqC8N2RqOXaTG-xo6ddv8G2ikzLwE

Though I am still new at navigating the Tasmanian record system... Familiar enough with the NZ system (though with a surname like Smith, it’s always trickier). No births registered on 25/1/1867 for a Smith in NZ

These names are comin from different sources. The Doyle was from another forum where I received a good amount of help at the time I posted. These information I have keeps getting added to. As I noted, the Doyle surname was merely a possibility that we are looking at.

John Smith is very much the enigma in this situation. The only potential evidence of them being together in NZ was the birth of the youngest daughter in 1865 after the court case in 1863 (obviously possible non-paternal event, of course)

Taylor is the name on Mary’s death certificate - apparently no first names for the parents though. There is now a suspicion that it was incorrect. I believe Dublin was on the birth certificate as well. Informant was the undertaker rather than family.
Religion varied from document to document - Mary was buried Baptist, married Presbyterian, and may have been Catholic at some stage.

Number of trips between Tasmania and NZ unknown. Various death certificates suggest 1860 and 1856 as possibilities as well, but of course these were decades after the fact.

We already have enough of the details verified via multiple sources for Catherine, her husbands, and children. For me to go into these details would significantly sidetrack my search. My fellow researcher actually DNA matches fairly closely to me and he’s related through Catherine’s first husband, while I descend via her second. (Ancestry suggests 4th cousin, paper trails suggests half second cousin once removed).