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Dear Jenny
I would be overjoyed if we were really related as I didn't think that I would ever
find any information on my Patrick Carmody as I said last time I cannot find any
documentation on Patrick.Not birth,marriage or death, just a name on four birth
certificates.
Do you know for sure if Patrick and Bridget had a son called Patrick?
I have collected a lot of documents over the last two years just on the off chance they
were relevant to my family and after your last e-mail I find that I have relevant ones.I
have PatrickCarmody Immigrant record from the Magistrate also his brother John who came on
the Fairlie, on his it says that his mother, another Bridget is dead but his father John
is alive. I have the baptism of James and Joseph but the surname of Bridget being Doohan
and they lived at Page and because of this I didn't think that they were related. I
would like to hear more about them.I have the birth of a Patrick Carmody born 18th July
1852 to John and Bridget Consedine and I have Bridget's death 23rd Feb.1885 and
Patrick was 32yrs at the time of her death so I now know for sure that this Patrick is not
mine but maybe a cousin.
I have Margaret Carmady's marriage to Michael Brigdale in Armidale 1/8/1868 but I also
have a marriage of a Margaret Helena Carmody to John Ward ,a widower, in Kelso near
Bathurst on the 4/2/1861and one of the witnesses were a Catherine Vines, any relation to
you ?
My cousin and fellow researcher Jan Mulcahy, we are related by our great grandmother's
Mary Jane and Alice Kate Loten, she is writing the family book and I have been helping her
with the research but I hit a brick wall with Patrick but Mary's side was a lot easier
so I hope you can knock down that wall for me and we will have some new information to add
to the book.
Patrick Carmody and Mary Jane Loten's children were:
Herbert Going b. 19/10/1867 Strathbogie d. Tasmania never married.
Sydney Ernest b. 30/7/1869 Strathbogie d.9/5/1946 Bellingen married Alice McFadden
6/3/1889
James Pecival b.10/2/1872 Strathbogie d.9/10/1947 Scott's Creek, near Taree
married Sarah Smith 1893
Francis Richard b.16/2/1874 Vegetable Creek now Emmaville
d.12/8/1943 Coff's Harbour
married Ann Sarah Atkins 16/5/1898
These are my grandparents
Patrick supposedly died from a fall form a horse three months after the birth of Francis
but no death certificate can be found.
All I have to go on is an entry made on Mary's application to enter theSydney
Benevolent Society to give birth to her fifth child she stated that Patrick had deserted
her and that she had a warrant out after him but if he is dead then how can this be.
Patrick's name is on the birth certificate but it is now 31/8/1876. We do know that
took her four boys back to her father in Taree in 1874 and became pregnant some time in
December 1875 to whom we don't know for sure but she gave the child the middle name of
Ritchie but then it was the maiden name of her sister inlaw Kate Ritchie.She went to
Sydney early in her pregnancy and must have been free and easy as the little girl she gave
birth to had conjenital Syphilis and died at two weeks. The full name was Nina Ritchie
Carmady.We looked up information on Syphilis and the unborn child contracts it at about
the fourth month.
Mary did survive long enough to marry an American, Edward Griffen 10/12/1877and she gave
birth to another girl. Minnie Katherine Griffen on the 29/4/1879 Mary died 20/5/1879 from
TB which was what killed her mother at the age of 33yrs and many of her family.
So that is my great grandmother's story.
I hope to find more about Patrick. I haven't given up yet.
Regards
Karelle