Thanks everyone. My great aunt started the research into Honoria and her husband Albert about 20 years ago before we had the benefit of online indexes. She had recorded that she kept changing her name on the different documents, settling on Henrietta for the majority. Most documents collected went to her daughter and I don't have copies, so am trying to go a little further into her parents and to verify the information she had collected.
From Aunt Jean "Honoria, who was sixteen years of age at the time, came on the orphan ship the PEMBERTON which sailed from Plymouth in England on 29 January 1849 and docked at Port Phillip on 14 May. She was received into a government-sponsored immigration depot on 26 May and left Melbourne for Portland some three weeks later. There she met and married Albert Vincent Balzary at the local church of St Stephen on 14 February 1853. Albert was born in Hungary and is thought to have sailed from Bombay to Australia on the RUNNYMEDE, arriving at Portland on 3 June 1852" (Jean notes that a number of subsequent certificates state that Honoria and Albert were actually married in Bombay but believes that was not so).
I downloaded a copy of Honoria's marriage certificate to William LOVETT and that had her parents listed as Catherine RYE and Thomas LOVETT BENTLEY (Coach builder). In 1875 she listed her age as 34 so the problem with the death certificate might relate to this. We know that she had the first 3 of her children 1853, 1855 and 1857 (no births registered) and 2 more (registered) in 1859 and 1860.
I also started a thread on the Limerick board to see if there was any evidence of a christening in Ireland or evidence of her parents in Limerick but haven't been able to find any yet.
I'll look into the LOVETT burials at Dunolly. I agree that Carol's photo's are an enormous assistance in trying to sort out people and dates. I didn't have much on the LOVETT's as we are decended from Honoria and Albert's third child, Eleanor Alberta BALZARY.
Cheers
Mel
