Hi chempat,
Older members of the family have letters with information about a Spanish link on the IRISH line of the family with the name Catherine Gonzales mentioned. Then when they traced through from a descendant of the family line, and an ancestor of of my maternal grandfather (he was the one that was adopted prior to his mother....and ancestor of this supposed Cathrine Gonzales.. THOUGHT SHE MAY BE MOTHER OR GRANDMOTHER OF THE MIRGRANT WHO..went to Cooktown in Australia, in 1881 after the baptism of her illegitimate son, (my grandfather) she met and had children to a Henry Musgrave. Their first child was Vera INEZ Lucy born 1882 (INEZ IS SPANISH FOR AGNES) - Sadly died as an infant. Then more children arrived. Catherine (Kate) Mc Elroy married Henry Musgrave after their last child was born, and she died two years later. Her death certificate linked her back to her roots in Newcastle U.K....to her parents, Peter Mc Elroy and Catherine Smith. Who link back to Co. Monaghan in Ireland to where the family story/myth of the Irish Senorita of Cathrine (or variants) of Catherine Gonzales originates from. So Now I think I should be checking the Church records in Ireland. (IT WAS THE CHURCH RECORD IN GATESHEAD, THAT PINPOINTED THE BIOLOGICAL FATHER'S NAME OF MY ILLEGITIMATE GRANDFATER, AFTER AN AFFAIR HE HAD WITH CATHERINE Mc ELROY , WHILE HIS WIFE WAS CARING FOR HIS CHILDREN FROM THEIR MARRIAGE. (oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive). His identity had been put on the birth record and crossed out at the date of Registration. The Clergy back then, often didn't have such a filter on their comments in church records, especially in rural areas...and so that's how we found his biological father....and then traced his descendants...who also went to Australia. Some, however returned to England many years later and resettled in the N.E. (one of his sons, actually lived in the town that I was brought up in!!!! So there could have been the possibility of us meeting up...and who knows what could have transpired? Who would have thought that an 'Australian' could have been a blood relative??? Thanks for your interest in my query.
