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ii New South Wales Births Deaths & marriages record (BDM) 3575/1858 lists a Patrick MacAnally as dying at Goulburn in 1858 at the age of 72 years. Most family history researchers believe Patrick is buried in the Corrimal cemetery, north of Wollongong, so this death location is more likely (though still incongruous) than the one showing in BDM 313/1859, which lists a Patrick MacNulty, who died in Sydney in 1859. No other likely possibilities are listed in the BDM records.

iii Various versions of Judith McNally’s pre-marriage name appear. She is shown as Judith Kilfroy on her daughter Sarah’s baptism record (BDM 445 V125) and the Irish Convicts to New South Wales website http://members.pcug.org.au - accessed 18/01/08. As Judith McDermott she appears on an on-line FamilySearch Pedigree Resource File (web site http://www.familysearch.org, accessed 18/01/08, from CD #128, PIN #1703276), the research records of Ulladulla historian Cathy Dunn and Elizabeth Hook’s CD Journey to a New Life. The complete version Judith Kilfroy McDermott also appears on Elizabeth Hook’s CD. The various uses may reflect the nineteenth-century practice of an eldest daughter in a family being named after her maternal grandmother, with the grandmother’s maiden name becoming the granddaughter’s middle name. Another possibility is that Judith McNally was a widow or divorcee when she married Patrick and retained her first husband’s name, as was often the practice also. (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestory.com/~hornbeck/naming.htm - accessed 13/05/08). Another variant of her first name is Julia, which appears on her son William’s death certificate, as well as on the Castlereagh land grant.

iv A family history sheet supplied by the late Mavis March, a member of the Illawarra Historical Society, suggests that Patrick’s wife Judith may have died in Camden some time in the 1840s. She also lists Judith’s surname as Kilfroy McDermott, with the source as The Kendall Papers (National Library of Australia). The family history sheet supplied by Mavis March contains a number of traceable errors, however, and no source reference for the information about Judith’s death.

v State Records of NSW: Index to Tickets of Exemption from Government Labor, 1827-32: SR reference numbers 4/4282 to 4/4285

vi http://www.smh.com.au/news/New-South-Wales/Campbelltown/2005/02/17/1108500193236.html (accessed June 2008).

vii 1828 Census of New South Wales

viii http://homepage.eircom.net/~tipperaryfame/leinster.htm (accessed 6/4/08).

ix http://www.lightinfantry.org.uk/regiments/Canada/can_infantry2.htm (accessed 6/4/08).

x At this stage, no official records are available to verify this date. At least one family history researcher (Mavis March) has stated that the date is calculated from known dates such as ages of children showing on musters, etc.

xi Again, no official verification is available for these dates at this stage, and calculations from available archival documents have been used.

xii No death notice for Mary has been recovered; This date is from a family history sheet supplied by the late Mavis March, from the Illawarra Historical Society. William’s death date is listed in NSW BDM record 4915/1875 – (as William MacAnally)

xiii Source to be checked

xiv RG8 vol 1203H, page 31-32 Reel C-3521; RG8 vol 165, page 97 Reel C-2773; RG8 vol 1169, page 9 Reel C-3520

xv Sources to be checked

xvi No records are available for Eliza’s death or marriage at this stage. If, as family history researcher Mavis March suggests, Eliza married somebody with a name similar to William Sheehan in about 1846, it’s possible her death is recorded in BDM 3930 / 1880, which shows an Eliza A. Sheehy dying in Woollahra in 1880, aged about 62. In this case (the only possible one showing in New South Wales BDMs), she would have been dead when ‘Bellambi’s Lake’ was written.

xvii Website reference to be added

xviii NSW BDM record v18209155/1820

xix NSW BDM record 14092/1892

xx Source details to be added

xxi Reference details to be checked

xxii Illawarra Mercury, May 24, 1884: 4

xxiii Reference to be checked

xxiv Conditional Pardon 44/268, signed by Governor Gipps on July 1st)

xxv State Records of NSW: Index to Tickets of Exemption from Government Labor, 1827-32: SR reference numbers 4/4282 to 4/4285

xxvi The 1828 Census of New South Wales lists Patrick McKnally as a labourer and, as McNalty, a carter with Thomas Barker. He is shown in both records as residing in Kent Street with Eliza McKnally, Sarah McKnally and John McKnally. Melinda (as Matilda McNally) is listed as with the Reverend Hill in Castlereagh Street, while William is shown as working for Patrick Keighran at Airds, and Mary McNally is listed at the Martin household, also in Kent Street. Patrick McNally’s wife Judith is listed in this census as Susannah McKnally (the clue that she is Judith is her listed ship of arrival, the Broxbournebury).

xxvii NSW BDM 7678/1876

xxviii Australian Dictionary of Biography: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020485b.htm?hilite=tompson

xxix NSW BDM v1827922 128/1827

xxx [Add reference (website?)]

xxxi [Add BDMs & correct actual number of children]

xxxii [Add reference]

xxxiii The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 9 December 1830: 3

xxxiv Australian Dictionary of Biography: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020142b.htm?hilite=McGarvie

xxxv The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 7 October 1830: 2

xxxvi The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 26 May 1829 [check page]

xxxvii The Sydney Gazette reports the case thus: ‘On Thursday, a young man named Wilson Berry, was given into the custody of the Police, charged with forgery under the following circumstances. From the statement of Mr. James barker of the firm of Barker and Hallen, it appears that on the 11th instant, Berry came to the Steam Engine in Sussex Street and presented for payment a ticket, from the Brisbane Mills, Parramatta Road, which also belong to their establishment, purporting to be signed by John, for Lawrence Kendall, who has charge of that establishment, the latter of whom is authorised to draw tickets for money, for purchases of wheat. The ticket in question, was for £39 19s. 3d for 110 bushels of wheat at 7s. 3d. Mr. Barker having paid Berry similar tickets and not having suspicion of any foul play, gave a cheque for the amount, which was paid at the Commercial Bank. Upon making up Mr. Kendall’s account at the end of the week, he found no account of the cheque which he had given and, upon enquiry being made, the ticket was proved to be a forgery. Wilson’s account, when before the bench yesterday, was this: - Mr. Basil Kendall, brother of Mr. Kendall at the Brisbane Mills, had called upon him in his capacity of a commissioned agent and asked him what he would take the cheque for to the Hope Mills, and get the amount he said he usually received 5 per cent. Mr. K. replied he could not give so much – but he had no objection to allow him 30s. ; to which he assented, and took it accordingly, obtained the cheque from Mr. Barker, and the cash for the same at the bank, which he handed over to Mr. Basil Kendall minus the commission. On the same evening Mr. Kendall came to his house and said that he expected his brother in town that evening, and that he would introduce him by the name of Rawstone, to which he said he had no objection, but thought the proposition very strange. Thus the matter rests for the attendance of Messrs. Lawrence and Basil Kendall’. (p2)

xxxviii The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, April 25, 1837: 3

xxxix The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, April 27, 1837: 3

xl Kiama Examiner, Wednesday November 21, 1860: 4

xli NSW BDM 19982/1935

xlii Illawarra Mercury, April 8, 1884: 4

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