Hello, would someone be able to help me please?
My William McDonald b 9 July 1789 St Ives Cornwall married Mary Rowe in Falmouth 15 July 1810. They had a son William Henry b 23 June 1812 Falmouth.
William, Capt/Master of the "Good Intent" then sailed to Antwerp. Onboard was an Agnes Smith b. about 1813 Liverpool Lancashire. She was pregnant. William took her under his wing and gave both her and the baby girl b 1831 his surname.
He left his wife and child in Falmouth and sailed to Australia where he settled with Agnes Smith (McDonald) and her daughter (Agnes Eliza Smith McDonald) until his death in 1846.
He did return once to Cornwall around 1836 - 1839.
After he died, his legal wife Mary McDonald age 61 petitioned Trinity House for assistance in 21 January 1848 - it was granted 22 Feb 1848.
I found Mary McDonald age 51 living in Mylor, Falmouth 1841 census (name spelled McDonall) with her ?mother Mary Rowe age 75 and an Eliza Rowe age 36.
After 1848, I can't find anything on Mary McDonald. The census and THP put her year of birth between 1787 and 1791. I don't know who her father was.
I would really like some help to find her and possibly a date of death for her and Mary Rowe snr. I don't know what happened to her son William Henry either.
Thank you so much for having a read of this.