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Family of James BUCHANAN and Harriette Rose MCMAHON

Husband: James BUCHANAN

  • Name:

  • James BUCHANAN

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • James BUCHANAN (1820- )

  • Father:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • c. 1837

  •  

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • Shopkeeper1

  • Death:

  • 9 Dec 1911 (age 73-74)

  • Cavan, Ireland2

  •  

  • Ray Pamer email dated 10 Dec 2011 says "her (Mary Buchanan) father died in 1863"

Wife: Harriette Rose MCMAHON

Child 1: Mary Rose BUCHANAN

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Daughter: Mary Rose BUCHANAN

  • Name:

  • Mary Rose BUCHANAN3

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse (1):

  • James Thomas BALL (1857-1886)

  • Spouse (2):

  • Harry Rolfe PALMER (1864-1951)

  • 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

Child 2: James BUCHANAN

  • Name:

  • James BUCHANAN

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Birth:

  • 15 Sep 1864

  • Ballyhaise, Cavan, Ireland5

  • Baptism:

  • 19 Sep 1864 (age 0)

  • Annagh Parish, County Cavan

  •  

  • See multimedia for copy of Baptism Regisry entry

Note on Wife: Harriette Rose MCMAHON (1)

Ray Palmer provided the following notes on Mary based on oral history from an aunt of his:

"Parents previously had a boy who died at birth. Mother died when Mary born. Went to live with her mother's parents James and Harriette 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 her which she lost in the bank crash………..”

Note on Wife: Harriette Rose MCMAHON (2)

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.

Sources

1.

Marriage Certificate. John McMahon.

2.

Ray Palmer on Ancestry.com.

3.

Marriage Certificate.

4.

Death Certificate. 1952/20590. John McMahon.

5.

Birth Certificate. Ballyhaise 136/1864. John McMahon.