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Re: Griffith Family Falcarragher
« Reply #45 on: Sunday 06 June 21 21:57 BST (UK) »
There was another Michael Cunningham in the police having children around the same time. Some details I found-
Michael Cunningham (d.1874 Capragh), constable, Lifford, m.(1867) Rose Logue
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1867/11496/8226803.pdf
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1874/020642/7242123.pdf
Mary 19 Sept.1870 Gub
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1870/03335/2222344.pdf (parents- Michael Cunningham policeman & Rose Logue)
Elizabeth 13 Mar.1872 Gub
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1872/03248/2190260.pdf
Rosanne 16 Oct.1873 Capragh, Cavan
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1873/03171/2163099.pdf (policeman)

This is not the correct Michael Cunningham.
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Re: Griffith Family Falcarragher
« Reply #46 on: Sunday 06 June 21 22:00 BST (UK) »
1911 census said Mary Cunningham was the mother of 12 children (7 living). This looks like the 12-
James
Mary 26 Aug.1871
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1871/03285/2203894.pdf
Michael 17 Apr.1873 Lisbellaw
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1874/03149/2154881.pdf (police constable)
William Patrick 22 Dec.1877 Lisbellaw
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1876/03069/2125033.pdf (policeman)
Lucy Ellen 19 Sept.1877 Lisbellaw
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1877/02988/2094690.pdf (policeman)
Alfred Joseph 16 July 1879 Lisbellaw-2 July 1879 Lisbellaw
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1879/02907/2065053.pdf
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1879/06507/4873691.pdf (sub-Constable)
Elizabeth Rose 20 July 1880 Lisbellaw
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1880/02862/2048558.pdf (police constable)
Sarah 22 June 1882 Lisbellaw
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1882/02771/2017704.pdf (police constable)
John 11 Sept.1884 Lisbellaw
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1884/02680/1987202.pdf (police constable)
Gertrude 27 July 1886 Lisbellaw
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1886/02592/1957526.pdf(father- policeman)
Florence 19 Aug.1888 Lisbellaw-1908
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1888/02506/1928938.pdf
Frederick Augustine 16 Feb.1890 Lisbellaw
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1890/02442/1908366.pdf (police pensioner)

Father's occupation in brackets.
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Re: Griffith Family Falcarragher
« Reply #47 on: Sunday 06 June 21 22:51 BST (UK) »
Thank you. This gives me a good base for further research.  It truly extends my knowledge of Sarah and her family. Although the big mystery remains as to why Sarah came out to Australia as an orphan as part of the Donegal relief fund. One extended family member once suggested perhaps she had done something to disgrace the family. But that was pure speculation. I have not found anything to support this theory. As far as I know although living a subsistent existence in the poorer farming community in the southern highlands of NSW. She appears to have been a respected member of the community Raising her grand children after the death of her daughter. Once again many thanks.
Wren
Are you sure that she had to have been an orphan to come to Australia as part of this fund? 

here is a link to Information about the fund and how it worked from Lindel's Donegal genealogy and researched by Lindel, and Bill Spillane. 

http://donegalgenealogy.com/relief.htm

Could you advise the place in NSW where she settled? 

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Re: Griffith Family Falcarragher
« Reply #48 on: Sunday 06 June 21 23:16 BST (UK) »
Hi Shanreagh
Yes, Sarah lived in a place called Mount Murray which was situated at the top of Macquarie Pass near Wollongong in New South Wales. She married John McGuinness. They had eight children. John died in 1908 and Sarah in 1922. They are both buried St Peter's Catholic Cemetery in Burrawang. John was the brother of two other Irish Orphan girls Eliza and Ellen. Both of whom married and lived in Wollongong. Eliza married a Kirton and Ellen a Gleeson. Also neither of these girls were actually orphans.Their mother Margaret was still alive and she also later came out with John.
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Re: Griffith Family Falcarragher
« Reply #49 on: Monday 07 June 21 11:16 BST (UK) »
Just a word to say a huge thank you to each of you who helped me with the Griffiths. I have spent most of today getting my head around it all.
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Wren