Further to earlier email. This may be the birth of the Anne Watts who had the twin girls in 1866 - http://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD33-1-28-p676j2k Cheers, Peter On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Peter Oakley <pete.j.oakley@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >