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Bridget Bridget Maybury (Mernagh) - RootsWeb suggests confusion regarding this record

Started by Private User on Thursday, August 5, 2021
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Private User
8/5/2021 at 8:59 PM

Ripping directly from https://sites.rootsweb.com/~mabry/australia.html

"Sarah's use of two maiden names has given rise to the erroneous belief that William was married twice in Australia. Sarah's father was John Mernagh, an Irish political exile, but it appears that a Gillespie family had raised her. No record of Sarah's birth or baptism has been located, but her death certificate places her birth around June 1816. She has been confused with Bridget Mernagh, John Mernagh's second daughter who married Patrick Farley in 1828."

Any input on whether it's appropriate to reflect this on the Geni record?

Private User
8/5/2021 at 9:05 PM

Leanne M (Volunteer Curator - Australia) 🇦🇺, You're involved in the area, Tagging you so that you might see this.
Leanne M (Volunteer Curator - Australia) 🇦🇺 C
8/6/2021 at 4:03 AM

Tagging the profiles so the profile managers can add any information

William Valentine Maybury, Convict "Bussorah Marchant" 1828 1799-1883

married Sarah Maybury 1816-1900 (daughter of Mary (Johnson) Mernagh / Mariner - Gillespie - Tutty, Convict "Tellicherry" 1806)

married Bridget Farrelly - Farley 1812-1900 (daughter of John Mernagh / Mariner, Convict "Tellicherry" 1806 and Mary (Johnson) Mernagh / Mariner - Gillespie - Tutty, Convict "Tellicherry" 1806)
Leanne M (Volunteer Curator - Australia) 🇦🇺 C
8/6/2021 at 5:43 AM

Private User

I have managed to confirm Bridget marrying Patrick FARLEY

But I have not been able to confirm that Sarah Maybury is the daughter of John and Mary (raised by Michael)

Her death record in 1900 lists her parents as John and Elizabeth

I haven't been able to find a birth record or a marriage record for her yet.

Private User
8/6/2021 at 6:16 AM

I, as the person that merged some of these profiles, am responsible for some of the duplicates here.

Figured I'd try to work out who was born to who before merging all the offspring. Was working on the assumption of multiple marriages but rootsweb somewhat dispelled that.

Private User
8/6/2021 at 6:21 AM

Leanne M (Volunteer Curator - Australia) 🇦🇺,

I believe the rootsweb page states that Sarah's birth record has never been found.

Likewise, the marriage documentation, with some disparity in the reported dates.

This info I have only gleaned from rootsweb.

We know that death records are only as good as the informant, and that can't be first hand.
Leanne M (Volunteer Curator - Australia) 🇦🇺 C
8/6/2021 at 7:32 AM

I have added sources to the events for those that I could locate.
Leanne M (Volunteer Curator - Australia) 🇦🇺 C
8/6/2021 at 5:58 PM

I wonder where their references to her using multiple names comes from?

Private User
8/6/2021 at 8:57 PM

That is a good question, Leanne.

I wonder if this one quote from the site gives some idea...

"The stories of these individuals and other Maybury families are told in greater detail in the chapter, "The Mayburys of Australia and New Zealand", (edited by Mike Smithson) in our book The Mayburys, published in 2011."
Leanne M (Volunteer Curator - Australia) 🇦🇺 C
8/6/2021 at 11:20 PM

Hopefully the profile managers who are adding the profiles will add some sources.

Private User
8/7/2021 at 11:00 PM

After reviewing the changes (thanks Leanne M (Volunteer Curator - Australia) 🇦🇺) I came up with one significant question.

Did Bridget really love to 112 years?

Maybe there is someone reading this that has better info on Bridget's death, currently reported as 1925 (as the possible registration)

Private User
8/10/2021 at 1:10 AM

I have added some notes on the About section of Bridget re DoD (Age 112)

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