Dear All I am trying to find some information with regard to the Maher family. I am researching the Mumford family tree and the name Maher has come up with a relative dead end so to speak. I have done my reseach by interviewing my mother in law and Births Deaths and Marriages on the net. I have reached a deadend here, but could go further when I obtain certificates but maybe someone out there can help me. My husbands great grandmother is Elizabeth Ann Maher b 12/4/1891 married George T J Smith 1917 had George, Jim and Irene. She then married Edgar Bertram Roy Hamilton Blanch 1919 had Edna, Hilda and Rita twins, Edgar Joseph, Ann and Robert William. I have seen her birth certificate and she was born at Mondrook and registered at Taree Elizabeth Ann Maher's parents were James Maher and Elizabeth Ann Smaills. She has a sister Jessie born 1893. Their mother died in childbirth after Jessie and the children were separated never to see each other again, or their father or so the family story goes. Elizabeth was raised by the Bloomfield family at Mitchells Island. I don't know where Jessie went and would love to find out. >From BDM I have found James Maher married Elizabeth Smaills (g-g grandmother)1889. But I cannot find her birth details in the many entries for Smaills at Taree. I feel that she belongs to this family as there is a Jessie Jemima Smaills born 1879 and that maybe she named one of her daughters after her. I am surmising, hopefully correctly. The name Holdern comes up in family stories and one of Elizabeth Smaills sisters married a Holdern, so I feel that maybe Jessie went to live with them. From BDM I have found that she married an Alfred Yeark and had a daughter Edna. From discussions with the Yeark family I believe this marriage did not last. From this point I am leaping into guessing land. From BDM I can find Jessie Yeark married Ernest Smith in 1932 and/or Jessie Yeark to Norman C P Parnell in Taree in 1919. I cannot find a marriage for Edna under the name of Yeark, but there is a listing for Edna M Parnell marrying a John F Denny In 1935 at Lismore. If there is any one who can help me clarify the family story I would love to hear from you. My husbands grandmother is still alive and for her I would like to tell her about Jessie as her mother wondered what happened to her I hope this has been easy to enough to understand. I look forward to your replies. Jan Mumford Nee Carpenter