http://indexes.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/list.aspx?Page=NRS5316/4_4814/Mary%20Nixon_30%20Nov%201841/4_481400106.jpg&No=3 Single Males (Single females start on page 4)
James BUCKLEY aged 23, farm servant, Roman Catholic, Read and Write, native of Cork per the vessel ‘Mary Nixon’, on same voyage as Mary BUCKLEY, aged 20, General Servant, Roman Catholic, Read and Write, native of Cork. Both the Buckleys were landed for Mr Jonathan B Were, of Melbourne, - he ‘imported’ the Bounty passengers on that voyage which landed them at Melbourne 30 November 1841.
There was no James BUCKLEY on the Portland, the single man BUCKLEY chap was Francis.
So if the James BUCKLEY witness to Mary BUCKLEY's marriage in 1842 was her brother, then it is likely they arrived on the same ship as each other. If Mary's husband also arrived on the same ship, then the transcription of that 1842 marriage gives the ship of arrival as the Mary Nixon. The reason for noting the ship of arrival on the m.c. would be to provide a paper trail for the Superintendent of Convicts, because if a person was still under a bond, in NSW (and this Port Philip District was still part of the territory of NSW in the 1840s) then that person needed permission of the Governor of NSW to marry. By the clergy recording his ship of arrival, we learn that that chap was NOT under any conviction, but in the 21st century we can notice that ship of arrival and start to consider possibles.
JM
ADD, and as Bounty passengers, they would likely have been engaged for a specific period of time, so perhaps if brother and sister they would have been able to keep in contact (read and write) and see each other from time to time too...
