Hi Michelle, Just a query? Was your John Watts family Roman Catholic? Cheers, Peter On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 6:42 PM, David and Michelle via < aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi List, > > Thanks to Trove I have the following notice – but where are the birth > records for these twins? Also James Augustine McCullagh married Annie > Edwards in 1877 in Longford RC – describing himeself as a bachelor (starts > off as a shoemaker then turns into a butcher before passing away in > Evandale in 1889). No marriage of a McCullagh to a Watts. If I have the > right John Watts – his sisters both had illegitimate families with married > men, but surely John wouldn’t put a marriage notice in the papers of three > colonies if the information wasn’t correct? > > 1866: At the residence of her father, Hobart Town, Mr. John Watts, the > wife of Mr. James August McCullogh of twins, daughters. Mother and > daughters doing well. Melbourne and Sydney papers please copy. > > Can anyone identify who this daughter (Miss Watts/Mrs McCullagh) is? Or > even the twins names? > > Any advice greatly appreciated > > Michelle > ------------------------------- > AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ > Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com > Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Michelle, Found this baptism which seems to be a match for part of your query but only for one child. There was no twin recorded before or after the entry nor any reference right up until 1869 where I stopped looking. St Johns the Evangelist, R.C., Richmond (baptisms - NS1052/1/3 pg. 43) 1866 Tempus Natus - 20 Sept. Tempus Baptismatis - 21 Oct. Name - Honorah Filius vel Filia - Girl Nomina Parentum - James McCullogh. Ann Watts Nomina Patrinorum - Patrick Murphy, Catherine Moore A me. - Michael J Beechinor There is also the death of a 4 month old child, Ann Watts at Richmond in 1867 - http://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD35-1-36p136j2k Whether this is the same child that was baptised or the twin I don't know? Could they have shortened Honorah to Ann?? or named the twins Honorah and Ann? I based my search on a punt looking for McCulloghs and Watts in the same vicinity. They both appeared in the newspapers at Richmond. I have a suspicion that James August/ine McCullagh was a child of Simon and Ann (Cunningham) McCullagh. She died in childbed 1844. James McCullough was born circa 1843, Did he survive and his mother die? Simon McCullagh or McCulloch had the "Union hotel" at Richmond. A John Watts appears in 1867 wanting to rent or lease a farm at Richmond. I think the use of "Hobart Town' in the advertisement was a pretty broad descriptive if the children were actually born at Richmond?? Cheers, Peter On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Peter Oakley <pete.j.oakley@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Michelle, > > Just a query? Was your John Watts family Roman Catholic? > > Cheers, > > Peter > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 6:42 PM, David and Michelle via < > aus-tasmania@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> Hi List, >> >> Thanks to Trove I have the following notice – but where are the birth >> records for these twins? Also James Augustine McCullagh married Annie >> Edwards in 1877 in Longford RC – describing himeself as a bachelor (starts >> off as a shoemaker then turns into a butcher before passing away in >> Evandale in 1889). No marriage of a McCullagh to a Watts. If I have the >> right John Watts – his sisters both had illegitimate families with married >> men, but surely John wouldn’t put a marriage notice in the papers of three >> colonies if the information wasn’t correct? >> >> 1866: At the residence of her father, Hobart Town, Mr. John Watts, the >> wife of Mr. James August McCullogh of twins, daughters. Mother and >> daughters doing well. Melbourne and Sydney papers please copy. >> >> Can anyone identify who this daughter (Miss Watts/Mrs McCullagh) is? Or >> even the twins names? >> >> Any advice greatly appreciated >> >> Michelle >> ------------------------------- >> AUS-Tasmania Mailing List Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~austashs/ >> Contact Admin AUS-Tasmania-Admin@rootsweb.com >> Search the Archive (type AUS-Tasmania in the list box) >> http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> AUS-TASMANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >