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"... I know Mary Ann BALL is the daughter of Joseph BALL  and the niece of Sarah ‘Sally’ Newsom Butt due to legal papers. "

What are the legal papers, and how do they identify your Mary BALL?

Maria Elizabeth LAMB m 1872 to James William VARLEY

Can you please list all the information on this certificate.

Do you see addresses.....occupations.....names of witnesses....name of church....do all present give a signature or does anyone sign with their mark.....etc....

Everything please.

Census 1961 86 York St Middlesex
ATTWOOD John E       51y   grocer                  b. Hannington    Kent
ATTWOOD Elizabeth   55y                              b. Dover Kent
ATTWOOD Charles H  25y                              b. Hannington Kent
ATTWOOD Robert       18y                              b. Hartle Down Kent
MUNN Emma             13y    grand daughter    b. Paddington  Mx
MUNN Frederick           2y    grand daughter    b. Paddington  Mx


Have you identified the parents of these MUNN children?

Is it a first marriage for Elizabeth.......age ~ 28y...... at 1830?

You have an incompletely transcribed marriage certificate for Margaret BENNETT, and no death certificate, so it important to know / assess what information you have to work with.

What documents do you have for BDM events in the lives of the people you are researching?

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At the time of her death, and for the inquest records, Margaret is identified with family names PORTER and BENNETT.   Other than that particular occasion, where and when do you see her as Margaret BENNETT?

"...after Charles died ten years later she started using Bennett again "

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BDM NSW birth

9098/1872  PORTER Caroline  parents Charles / Margaret    @ Coonabarabran

9816/1874  PORTER John   parents  Charles / Margaret  @ Coonabarabran

death
4529/1874  PORTER Charles parents Thomas / Caroline    @ Coonabarabran

Can you please list all the information on the birth certificate you have for John PORTER. The name of the informant is useful.....the person who gives Margaret birthplace and age.


Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser  18 Mar 1884 p4
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/217879714?

What happened to Margaret's children after her death?

You need to see the death certificate, Edward Maurice HARVEY, 1944.

Contact the cemetery and ask who else is buried in  plot  0521.

Edward Maurice HARVEY married, 1920, and died 1944.......and your source of information is a grand daughter.....who never met him?

You need much more information from your friend about her grandfather, and accept that it is second hand information....not from her personal recall.


http://www.easternsuburbsmemorialpark.com.au/burials

Name:                           Edward Maurice HARVEY
Date of death:                N/A
Date of service:              29/05/1944
Type:                             Buried
Location:                        CA - Congregational FM A, CA - Congregational FM A, Position 0521


Name:                            Donald Bruce HARVEY
Date of death:                 N/A
Date of Service:              23/03/1937
Type:                              Buried
Location:                         CA - Congregational FM A, CA - Congregational FM A, Position 0522

Name:                            Edward Maurice   HARVEY
Date of Death:                N/A
Date of Service:              18/04/2001
Type:                             Cremated
Location:                        CA - Congregational FM A, CA - Congregational FM A, Position 0522


Name:                            Kathleen Mary Harvey
Date of death:                 N/A
Date of service:               15/04/1977
Type:                              Buried
Location:                        CA - Congregational FM A, CA - Congregational FM A, Position 0522


Donald Bruce HARVEY sounds rather Scottish.