Yes I have the same sort of story...
Except I have been researching the two Curran's... Who's mother was Margaret Curran Hailstone and Berty were born out of wedlock...
1. Hallstone, Claude Curran/Walsh
Adopted out to Walsh family, father may of been a John Walsh, in his obit, yet to site baptismal cert but other members of the Curran family say the father is noted on baptismal cert!
Claude Hallastone Walsh
Service Number: 22
Rank: Trooper
Unit: 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment
Service: Australian Army
Conflict / Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Conflict eligibility date: First World War, 1914-1921
Date of death: 7 August 1915
Place of death: Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey
Cause of death: Killed in action
Place of association: Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
Cemetery or memorial details: Ari Burnu Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
Trooper Claude Hallastone Walsh
Service number: 22
Unit: 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment
Date of death: 07 August 1915
Commemorated on: Panel 6
Conflict: First World War, 1914-1918
? 1/2 brother Richard Henry Walsh
Service Number: 7320
Place of Birth: Warrnambool, VIC, Australia
Place of Enlistment: Warrnambool, VIC, Australia
Next of Kin: Walsh, John (father)
He died @ Gallipoli..
2.Berty Curran/Walsh b. 1896 Woodford, Victoria
Brought up as a Walsh father may of been a John Walsh??yet to site baptismal cert but other members of the Curran family say the father is noted on baptismal cert!
Birth Record of Berty Curran Born to Curran and Margaret Curran
I can trace him in Koroit, Victoria until 1930 after that no idea...
Mother of Hailstone and Bertie:
Margarets T Curran’s first child born out of wedlock was named Ada Curran it is said that father was noted on Baptismal record as Russell yet to site this, Russell was her brother in-law!
Family Story
The family story is that Margaret HENRY born c1858 was employed by John CURRAN as a maid and at the time of his wife's death in 1875, the boys were 9 and 7 and the girls were 6, 3 and new born. Margaret would have been c17 years at that time. Margaret Henry, whom the children called mother Henry, the housekeeper....... looked after the Curran children until she Henry Marrried, she becomes Mrs John Chegdwidden
In 1884 Margaret HENRY aged c26 years marries.
Margaret Curran's children..
It would seem that the first child born out of wed lock was brought up by the Curran's.
Because of Margaret Curran's family shame, Margaret Henry now gives shelter to Margaret Curran who works as a house maid for (Her) Margaret Chedgewidden/Walsh family
It would seem the two other children born to Margaret Curran out of wedlock were fathered by a John Walsh hence ?adoption by Mother Henry and John Walsh....O boy it's all very messy lol!
Mother Henry: Death: 1933 #13411 Margt CHEDGEWIDDEN; Father's name: HENRY, Edwd Jno; Mother's name: Ellen (Carrigan); Place of death: Wbool; Age; 74
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