See also
Husband:
James Thomas BALL (1857-1886)
Wife:
Mary Rose BUCHANAN (1862-1952)
Children:
Marriage:
26 Nov 1881
St Marys Cathedral, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1
Marriage Certificate says James was a carpenter aged 24 and Mary was a spinster aged 21
Name:
James Thomas BALL2
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
1857
Death:
1886 (age 28-29)
Mary Rose BUCHANAN
Name:
Mary Rose BUCHANAN3
Sex:
Female
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
8 May 1862
Red Hills, Cavan, Ireland
It is a bit debateable when Mary was born. The death certificate says she was born in 1865 in Red Hills County Cavan. The certificate of her marriage to James Ball says she was 21 in 1881, a birth year of 1860. The certificate of her marriage to Henry Palmer in 1888 gives her age as 24, a birth year of 1864. But the records of the Immigration Board, the shipping company and the Migration Deposit Journal have her born in 1862 meaning she was aged 15 when she migrated. I have chosen 1862 as her birth year on the weight of evidence.
Ray Palmer email dated 10 December 2011 says "Both pieces of information about Mary Buchanan's sailing to Australia indicate that her year of birth was 1862.....Her birth date/age is an issue. I firmly believe that she was born in 1862. I believe that she may have advanced it to get married to James Ball as she would have been about 19 instead of 21....Also when she married Harry she claimed to be 24.... I believe that she lowered her age here so they were both 24 -when she was in fact 26."
To complicate things, the Smith Dennes Family Tree on Ancestry.com (owner Peter Smith) says her date of birth was 8 May 1865
Baptism:
9 May 1862 (age 0)
Annagh Parish, County Cavan
See Baptism Registry entry in multimedia
Emigration:
Feb 1877 (age 14)
Death:
7 Sep 1952 (age 90)
44 Lord St Roseville, Roseville, New South Wales, Australia4
Death Certificate givesage at death of 87(born 1865), time in colonies as 73 years(migrated in 1879), staus as widow, place of birth as Red Hills
Son: William Buchanan Collingwood BALL
Spouse: Neva Gertrude CORK
Name:
William Buchanan Collingwood BALL
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Birth:
26 Sep 1884
Station St, Petersham, New South Wales, Australia5
Death:
28 Apr 1958 (age 73)
26 Byrnes St, Bexley, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death certificate is 1128/1886
Mary migrated per Kapunda which departed Plymouth 21 Nov 1876 and arrived Sydney 8 Feb 1877.
Her Migration deposit was paid by James McMahon 17 Feb 1876. Her place of residence was Red Hills and the Person of Note to Whom Reference can be Made was E. B. Venables Esq. J. P. Red Hills. ,The deposit was £5.
The Immigration Board record says she was Catholic, her father was James Buchanan, no mention of mother meaning she was deceased. Her Relative in the Colony was given as Uncle, James McMahon, St Albans
Notes on Raymond Palmer's record for Mary Palmer - source oral history
"Parents previously had a boy who died at birth
Mother died when Mary born
Went to live with her mother's parents James and Harrietts McMahon on the Isle of Man at Douglas
Her father gave her a payment
Came to Australia on Kapunda - her Godfather was the ship's surgeon - Dr Goode
Went to live at Windsor with James McMahon and Phoebe(Armstrong). He was a sergeant of police.
James invested her money for hger which she loist in bank crash.
The McMahons had seven children:
Marshall
Ted
Billy
Sean
Joseph
Luke
Septimus
Married Harry in 1888 at Ramsgate Rd Kogarah
Lived 42 Lord St Roseville.
Died of Hypostatic Pneumonia and Chronic myocardittiis.
Buried Northern Suburbs Crematorium, 8/9/1952 - cremated
Mary migrated to Australia in 1877 presumably after the death of Ellen McMahon(nee Finlay). It is probable that she was living with Ellen since the death of her mother Rose which seems to have been in 1864 after the birth of James.Mary was oinly 15 when she migrated.
Marriage Certificate. 1668/1881. Cit. Date: 26 November 1881. John McMahon.
Bradley website My Heritage.
Marriage Certificate.
Death Certificate. 1952/20590. John McMahon.
Birth Certificate. 6872/1884. John McMahon.