Thanks to Patsy for her reply regarding my MURPHY ancestor's burial in Bathurst. Sorry I mistook Bathurst as being in Northumberland Co. instead of Gloucester. (We don't use similar county divisions here in Australia.) As far as I know, my g-g-g-grandfather's name was just plain James MURPHY, so maybe there was no gravestone or perhaps it hasn't survived. My Murphy ancestors, James and Catherine and infant John came from Ireland to PEI about 1832. Children Margaret (1832) and Edward (1835) were born in PEI. Daughter Catherine was bapt. at the Holy Family RC church in Bathurst in 1837. Catherine MURPHY (presumably widowed) was married to Thomas POWER 21 Nov. 1840 in the same church and they had six other children, also baptised there: Mary, 1841; Thomas, 1842; Morris, 1844; Michael, 1845; Nicholas, 1848; William, 1853. Some of these children (Mary, Morris and William) apparently died young, quite possibly in Bathurst. The family was living in Newcastle, NB, by the time of the 1861 census. I'd be delighted to accept Patsy's offer of details of the MURPHY gravestone inscriptions which have survived. Maybe some of them are associated with the later POWER connections and might lead me somewhere. Meanwhile, it sounds like I need to go back to basics and check the Holy Family church registers. I've looked on the LDS site for this church which states that the early registers include burials "in the early years". Someone else found the baptisms and marriage referred to above and commented that there were no death entries, but maybe I need to have another look. Having bungled my first post to this list, I'll regroup and post again in a couple of days about the MURPHY and POWER families in Newcastle, which I'm SURE is in Northumberland Co. Allan Murphy Sydney, Australia