The 1911 census record for Ellen Nevin shows 4 children born and 3 alive. The two children listed with Ellen and John Nevin were his children born after they married in 1901. So it looks like one of Ellen's two children Sarah and Robert Bryson born before 1901 was still alive in 1911. I can see one Sarah Bryson aged 14 listed as a visitor in Owensland in 1911 who would be a possibility.
Thanks. I’d miss-read “Nivin” as “Nixon” the other day for some reason. The child who had died by 1911 was John James Nevin (1903-1906).
They seem to have counted Ellen’s first two children (Sarah in 1896, Robert in 1898) as being born to the 1901 marriage, which suggests John James Nevin (senior) was their biological father.
I agree that it is probably Ellen’s daughter Sarah aged 14 in Owensland in 1911. It is interesting that she is still a Bryson though, which contradicts my previous point.
Anyway, if that is Ellen’s daughter in Owensland with the Andrew family, that could be significant for the Bryson connections. William Andrew’s wife Margaret (d. 1908) was a daughter of Robert Bryson of Ballyvoy. From the will of Robert’s brother John (1859), we know they had a brother James (in America at the time) who had a son called Robert.