Following on from last Friday's very helpful discussion on another member of the Hyatt family in New South Wales, I was wondering whether any kind RCers could cast their eye over this information and possibly help me.
On this particular line, I've not got any issues with posting all the information I have, unlike last week
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An Emma Hyatt married Herbert Spruce at Raymond Terrace Weslyan in November 1887. The entry contains no parent's details and as far as I can see, none of the witnesses are members of the Hyatt family. However, when she died in 1907, her death certificate lists her father as John Height and her birth place as Tamworth in 1869.
As far as I can see there was only one Emma Hyatt birth registered in NSW that year or adjoining years. Emma Maria Hyatt the daughter of John Hyatt and Emma Birth (who had married in 1867 at Hartley St John) was born 30 April 1869 at Krui River in the District of Merriwa. John and Emma had one further child, John, whose birth was registered in 1873 in Murrindi District.
I can find no further trace of John Hyatt junior and the only trace of Emma Birch I have found is a newspaper entry in 1877 from Trove. Her mother placed an entry in the Australian Town & Country Journal on 6 Jan 1877 (found on Trove) saying "if this should meet the eye of Emma Hyatt, maiden name Emma Burch (sic), last heard of at Liverpool or Breeza(?) Plains, write to your mother .." John Hyatt senior died at McLeod's Creek nee Drake in 1903 with his brother Richard the informant on his death certificate. Richard listed his brother as being single with no children. John may have been up at McLeod's Creek in 1901 when his brother Richard is listed on the Census as residing there with one other adult male. They appear to have both been mining in the area according to both death certificates.
There is an ancestry public tree which links Emma Spruce nee Hyatt with Emma Maria Hyatt, and I did send this person a message in August asking if John Hyatt's marriage certificate confirmed his birthplace as Enfield, but, to date, even though the tree owner would appear to have been on the site regularly since then, no response has been received.
I know that Krui River and Murrindi aren't that far from Tamworth, and obviously the informant on her death certificate (her husband Herbert) may have got the information wrong. However, I cannot find anything that places John and Emma Hyatt at any point in Tamworth. Would it be reasonable for someone born in the Merriwa area to say they were born in Tamworth?
I don't need any other information on the Hyatts unless anyone can find what happened to John Hyatt junior or his mother Emma Birch as I've been researching the family extensively for many years.
Thanks
Nicola