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Michael Rouhan/Bridget Mara

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Re: Michael Rouhan/Bridget Mara

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 9:45PM GMT
Classification: Query
Pigache from Ireland has helped to identify another child of Michael Roughan (c1803-1889) and Bridget Omeara (c1805-1882).

Known children (there would be more) are:-
*(Dr) James (c1827-1913) lived in Ireland
*Dennis (c1834-) lived in Ireland
*Patrick (c1835-1892) moved to Australia as a single immigrant at age of 20 in 1855
*Annie (c1837-1907) moved to Australia with her husband and 4 children in 1863
*Hannah (1846-1929) moved to Australia as a single immigrant

Following the lives of the three children who are known to have moved to Australia:
(1) Patrick Rou(g)han immigrated as a £1 assisted immigrant to Sydney, NSW aboard the "Lord Hungerford" in 1855 at the age of 20. The passenger list identifies him as the son of Michael Roughan and Bridget Omeara. His parents were at the time living in Dawley, Ireland.. Coming to NSW as an assisted immigrant brought him to the land of opportunity, the land of gold, at little cost to0 himself, unlike many other immigrants at this time who had to pay full passage. Once in Sydney he was able to assess where to go to joiN in the gold-rush, and would have heard that Victoria was the place to go. He then made his way to Ballarat in Victoria, possibly overland as did so many others from NSW. In 1856 in Ballarat he married Catherine Tobin. Still following gold they moved to Amherst (near Maryborough where their first child was born in 1860. They then moved to Daylesford in the period 1863 to 1869 where more children were born. Finally by 1873 the family had moved to Creswick between Daylesford and Ballarat. Patrick died in Creswick in 1892.

(2) Annie Rou(g)han had married Michael Bourke in Ireland. They immigrated to Victoria in 1863 aboard the Marc Polo. With them were their 4 children:
Thomas (c1835-1933)
Sarah Ann (c1858-1934)(married surname Munday)
Micahel James (c1860-1916)
Bridget Teresa (c1861-1927)(married surname Crowl)
Arriving in Victoria they moved out to the goldfields and a Creswick in 1864 their first child born in Victoria arrived. Creswick was not far from Daylesford where her brother Patrick and his wife Catherine were living with their children in 1863. By 1866 the family had moved to Eganstown even closer to Daylesford where they remained until at least 1869. The family then moved to Buninyong near Ballarat where Annie died in 1907.
Annie's children born in Victoria were:-
John Michael (1864-1903)
Johanna Margaret (1866-1949)(never married)
Patrick Edward (1869-1935)

(3) Hannah Ro(ug)han arrived into Port Melbourne as a single immigrant but no shipping record has survived. She joined her elder sister and her family at Buninyong near Ballarat. The first record of Hannah in Australia is at her marriage to Thomas Oshea in 1873 in the gold-mining district of Gympie in Queensland. She is described as a resident of Buninyong. It can only be assumed that she travelled to Gympie to follow the man that she loved who had moved from Buninyong/Ballarat to Gympie in about 1871 when he obtained a mining license at Gympie. It looks like Thomas Oshea had arrived in Victoria at about the age of 21 aboard the "John and Lucy" which had docked at Geelong in 1856. He then made his way to the Ballarat Goldfields. In his last years in the area he had met Hannah Roughan. In 1871 he moved to the Gympie Goldfields in Queensland to try his luck there, but he kept in touch with Hannah. Hannah left her family behind in Victoria and travelled to Gympie to join him, where they married in 1873 and began their family. (It is assumed that Hannah joined Thomas in Gympie because she described her place of residence at the time of the marriage in 1873 as Buninyong, and because there were no children born before the marriage.)
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
tombarn2002 6 Dec 2010 4:01AM GMT 
warncoort1 6 Dec 2010 9:34AM GMT 
tombarn2002 6 Dec 2010 9:55AM GMT 
Pigache1 15 Jun 2013 10:30AM GMT 
buckingham014... 16 Jun 2013 3:45AM GMT 
Emer Singleto... 17 Jun 2013 5:45PM GMT 
rouhan65 25 Mar 2011 8:43PM GMT 
tombarn2002 26 Mar 2011 6:22AM GMT 
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