Mary Eliza Dunscomb O'Shea ( nee Vallance) and Miriam Lois Barker (nee Vallance)

[kiwihalfpint]

From a tree on Ancestry : Marie Marguerita O'Shea

Birth 1873 • Wellington, New Zealand
Death 9 Mar 1922 • Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa

Marriage abt 1898 in South Africa to Frederick Arthur Allen. 

Information for death of James O'Shea is before 1921 unknown.

Cheers
KHP

Added: Looks like a 2nd marriage in March 1911 to Henry Gray

[CaroleW]

1841 Liverpool - same address as 1851 which was West Derby St but all shown as born Lancs and no Mary Eliza

William Vallance 40 merchant
Margaret 30
John 7
William 6
George 2
Margaret 1 died 1841
HO107/520/3/1

[kiwihalfpint]

Marriage notice for James O’Shea says he was a Merchant late of Algoa Bay.   Is that in South Africa?

If that is the case, is it possible the family moved to South Africa?  Just speculating.

Cheers
KHP

[mckha489]

Probably OP knows all this :-)  and we still don't have them arriving in NZ, although have it narrowed down now I think. to between 1861 (more likely to be 1863 after death of father) and Feb 1868, marriage of Mary Eliza (but to allow time for her getting to know James then before early 1867)

[kiwihalfpint]

Probably OP knows all this :-)

Think OP will be learning all this as they read:

I have no further awareness of the O'Shea Family beyond that date and would much appreciate any information accordingly...

Cheers
KHP

[minniehaha]

Birth of a son for James O'Shea [1870]…….

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18701109.2.4?end_date=31-12-1874&phrase=2&query=james+o%27shea&start_date=01-01-1868


And sadly, the death of that son [1870]…….

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18701109.2.5?end_date=31-12-1874&phrase=2&query=james+o%27shea&start_date=01-01-1868

Minniehaha.

[mckha489]

Death of James O'Shea 25 August 1896 at Port Elizabeth

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18961012.2.23.3?items_per_page=10&page=10&phrase=2&query=james+o%27shea&sort_by=byDA.rev

[mckha489]

Auction of property in Bidwell Street Wellington "Mrs James O'Shea's settled estate"  July 1896
Does that imply she died before that and that the property was in her name due to his previous insolvency???  Or now she is insolvent too??  I'm thinking the latter.

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM18960704.2.37.1?items_per_page=10&page=10&phrase=2&query=james+o%27shea&sort_by=byDA.rev

[mckha489]

an architect suing for costs against Mary Eliza Dunscomb O'Shea 'Now outside the Colony"  in 1892

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM18920831.2.32.3?items_per_page=10&page=12&phrase=2&query=james+o%27shea&sort_by=byDA.rev