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This William FRENCH was described on the census as born August 1871 in Australia and was in San Francisco with a wife in 1900, so ................... have they been eliminated from the EGAN search, afterall, he migrated to the US in 1893 .... was there any Gold Fields in California in 1893 ? Who was writing to this chap from Western Australia? or who in Western Australia was receiving letters from him? Or was he writing to Northampton New Hampshire and they were writing back to him in California?
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M95C-WTG " Have very little on William Thomas French only know he was with Annie Elizabeth Law by "common law" not married he died 1939 Nedlands Western Australia.
The letter writing to my understanding was John & William French to their mother Mary Egan in Massuchusetts USA.
"So Bill's story about the half siblings who remained in Australia was that they were children of Patrick EGAN and his first wife who died. These two brothers stayed in Australia and went to work in the gold fields." Could be??
Patrick LEAHEY and his wife Mary C LEAHEY and their sons: John E; Leo D; James P; Gregory M; and sister (to the head of the household) Annie A and the head of the household's Father in law : Patrick EAGAN (noting the spelling of his surname)
Patrick EAGAN was widower, born March 1840 in Ireland, and arrived in the USA in 1856.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MS25-KW6 Any further records of leaving USA back to Western Australia as my Patrick James Egan married Mary French 1876 Perth WA.
Haven't a copy!oes that 1877 birth cert have Patrick Joseph's
father's SURNAME as Eagan or as Egan
father's given name/s as Patrick James OR just as Patrick
mother's surname as Leighey or as French nee Leahy
mother's given name/s as Mary (Cecilia) or just as Mary
But marriage cert of Mary & Edward have her as Leahy and Edward full age and Mary Full age.Marriage only has her as Mary. But 2of her gchildren of John Joseph's Esther Cecilia and Cecilia May/Mary.
Don't have a copy of Patrick & Mary's marriage cert only Edward & Mary's.
And the Rev'd was James Brown
married according to the rites of Church of Holy Trinity York WA C/E
and the witnesses were Mary Holland & George Holland
Mary didn't sign the reg but Edward placed a cross
And the Western Australia's BDM reference no. is 5007/1880
You assumed wrong I haven's Patrick's BDM certs at all.
hecking further on the Western Mail Sat 8 August 1891, page 15.
"the passengers who left Albany by the steamer were: For London,
…. Patk Egan, Mary Egan and Patk Egan junr. "
Here’s the direct link to that page of that newspaper
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/33067181 I used the key words “Mary Egan” and ticked the box for all the WA newspapers, without limiting any years at all.
So then they arrived 1892! Well spotted!
Joseph Patrick Egan/Eagan The address is from the US Naturalisation Index so would have been his address on the 18th April 1903. Whilst the index does have his birth as 19th March 1877 it does not say he was born in Perth WA, in fact for Country of Birth or Allegiance it says Great Britain.
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