The name Dennis Tierney appears on the 1859 death certificate of an ancestor of mine, both as the informant and as the undertaker - she died and was buried at Dungog. I wondered if he was a relative, but have just found some details on him in a website called "The Balls of Galston." Dennis and his bride Eliza D'Arcy emigrated from Tipperary on the "China" in 1839. He was a carpenter and first worked for Sir William Mackay on Elizabeth Bay House in Sydney before settling in the new village of Dungog, where he was in business as both carpenter and undertaker. He was active in the local rifle club and was starter for the racing club. Wife Eliza died in 1858, leaving him and four children. I still don't know why he was the informant on the death certificate in question. Ellen had a husband and 10 children; I presume that some of them could write, and certainly Tierney was not related to us. Perhaps this information may be of interest to someone with a relative buried by Dennis at Dungog. He was born in 1811 and died in 1894. Ray