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

[mckha489]

1887 first dividend in the assigned estate of James O'Shea payable

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18871027.2.66.4?items_per_page=10&page=13&phrase=2&query=james+o%27shea&sort_by=byDA.rev

[mckha489]

Final notice - payment of accounts to the assigned estate of James O'Shea

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18870420.2.70.2?items_per_page=10&page=14&phrase=2&query=james+o%27shea&sort_by=byDA.rev

[mckha489]

James charged with obtaining a cheque under false pretences. 
Subsequent reports say the accuser didn't turn up for the final hearing so he was discharged

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM18870325.2.38?items_per_page=10&page=19&phrase=2&query=james+o%27shea&sort_by=byDA.rev
so - back to Argentina/South Africa sometime between 1887 and 1896

[mckha489]

the 1880s were a tough time
Their house in Bidwell Street burned down in 1885

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18850813.2.10.5?items_per_page=10&page=28&phrase=2&query=james+o%27shea&sort_by=byDA.rev

[kiwihalfpint]

So these articles indicate that Mary Eliza is alive for those years... and her sister's marriage notice indicates that she wasn't around in 1876?  Just thinking out loud


Cheers
KHP

[mckha489]

No, her sister's marriage notice says she is the youngest surviving daughter (there was another younger one, Rhoda who must have died) 
That phrase does not preclude the fact that there is an older sister living.  Just means Miriam is the youngest of all the daughters still living.

[kiwihalfpint]

Right now on track ... must have missed seeing there was another sibling ....


Cheers
KHP

[minniehaha]

Auction re the Estate of James O'Shea [1887]……….

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP18870416.2.43.4?end_date=31-12-1896&page=3&phrase=2&query=james+o%27shea&start_date=01-01-1887

A little more concerning the dismissal of the case against James O'Shea…….

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZMAIL18870401.2.123?end_date=31-12-1896&page=6&phrase=2&query=james+o%27shea&start_date=01-01-1887


Minniehaha.

[minniehaha]

Obituary [1938] of a grand-daughter of James O'Shea.....

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HN19380330.2.15?end_date=31-12-1949&query=mrs.+james+o%27shea+death&start_date=01-01-1896&title=DOM%2CEP%2CNZFL%2CHN%2CHVI%2CKOP%2CMKURA%2CMATUH%2CNZCPNA%2CNZGWS%2CNZMAIL%2CNZSCSG%2CNZTIM%2COTMAIL%2CPUKEH%2CUHWR%2CVT%2CWAG%2CWDT%2CWAIST%2CWI&type=ARTICLE


Minniehaha.