Hello,
I'm hoping that someone out there may know of what happened to my gggrandfather, James Egan, who came to Aust some time prior to 1854, when he married an Irish girl from Armagh, Sarah McVeigh. The couple seems to have moved around a lot, with some of their children being born in Deniliquin 1855 (Mary Ann), Stathboggie 1859 (Catherine), Violet Town (Edward Arthur and Francis 1861 and 1864), and Longwood (Peter, 1863, at Molka Station) James and Sarah met at 'Strathkillan' near St Arnaud in 1854, and James is listed as working at Geelong (occ: Labourer, shearer, and perhaps miner) on his marriage certif. After Sarah's death in 1865, the children were farmed out to kind families (one, a Thompson family), James seems to vanish...there are numerous James Egans listed around the Woodend/Euroa areas...and then some mention of him living around the Bourke area in NSW...we just can't confirm James' whereabouts in his old age, and hence his final resting place. We know that his parents were James Egan, bootmaker, and Mary Harma(n)
Any help out there would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks
Rap