Peter Daley farmer born circa 1775 County Clare? Ireland

Spouse unknown

1.Patrick Daley born circa 1797 died 1859. Death cert states age as 59 years. Obit states as 62 years. Immigrants often lied about their age to be elligable for assisted passage.

Married
Jane Fahey Ireland
possible siblings of Jane were Walter,James and Anne of the Parish of Sixmilebridge County Clare

Issue
1.Mary b circa 1831 Sixmilebridge County ClareMarried Edward Egan 13 Nov 1844 ( possibly 1847)
2 Ellen bapt 12 feb 1832 Sixmilebridge County Clare died Walcha as Ellen Woods married Thomas Woods
3. Daniel bapt 27 oct 1833 " died Sydney Cove Quarratine station March 1838
4.Patrick bapt 12 April 1836 " died South Grafton (Glenragh) 1904
Married Mary Wall b 1841 Bundarra

sources Clare Heritage Centre Ireland.NSW Birth deaths Marriages.

Patrick and Jane immigrated to Australia on the Lady M'Naughten. A notorious Fever Ship which departed late 1837 from "The Cob" in Cork via England and South Africa to be quarantined in Port Jackson for three months due to Thyphus. See Quarantined! : the 1837 Lady Macnaghten immigrants / Perry McIntyre & Elizabeth Rushen.

Publisher

Spit Junction, N.S.W. : Anchor Books Australia, 2007

Manly Quarantine stattion website:

1837 - The "Lady McNaughton" was quarantined for typhus. There were 444 people on board - 54 people had died of typhus on the journey to Sydney. 13 more died in quarantine. A burial ground was established above Quarantine Beach. Three weatherboard buildings were erected at Little Manly Beach to house the sick so that the ship could be properly cleaned. The passengers were in quarantine for 11 weeks in miserable conditions.Soon those three original buildings were moved to Quarantine Beach.
The Quarantine Station grounds were extended to include the whole of North Head.

Patrick was an overseer in the Paterson district by late 1838.By 1841 He was living with the family at Crooms Park owned by John Hooke. They later resided at Auchentorlie then owned by Capt Thomas Cook Magistrate and Coroner
Issue cont..
5.Anne b 1 oct 1838 Married Lorenzo Brachon in Narrabri NSW 2nd october 1865 death unknown
6.Margaret b 15 May 1840 Upper Williams River Married William Billingsley in Narrabri 1871 she died in Narrabri in 1915
7.John b 1842 Dungog m Charlotte Cecillia Russell Queensland 1895. Drover died Townsville Hospital 1922 buried Townville Cememtery.QLD
8.Catherine b.14 April 1844 poss death before 1857 no record

Jane Fahey was killed in a bullock accident while travelling to Dungog from Auchentorlie in 1851,leaving Patrick with a large family. ( see Maitland Mercury april 26 1851 "Melancholy Death")

Land purchase 1851/51 Dungog cnr Dowling and Myles Street ( 4 roods lot 8 and lot 9)
He remarried in 1856. Margaret McNamara spinster from Hinton they had one child
1.Jane Daley b29 Oct 1857 Monkerai
Jane Daley later entered the Convent of the Sisters of the Good Samaritans of 444 South Pitts Street in 1889. She was took the Religious name for Sister Etheldreda. The Sisters were then moved to 2 Avenue st Glebe "Toxteth House". She died in 1922 and is buried at Rookwood Cemetery
This may be her death reg as her step brother was Michael??

721/1922

DALY

JANE

MICHAEL

MARGARET

ROCKDALE

Patrick Died 9 Jan 1859 of Bronchitis at Monkerai. The family then moved to Ding a Dee owned by the Hooke family,where Pat junior was living already.
Margaret Daley nee McNamara married Cornelius Ryan of Hanleys Creek Dungog in 1862. They had no children of their own but Jane Daley did appear to live with this family as she was witness at her stepsisters wedding. After Cornelius's death in 1882 it may be that Margaret McNamara found herself in difficult circumstances as she was left nothing in the will of Cornelius Ryan. She put a cavet on the will but was unsuccessful in contesting it. Interestingly her daughter Jane Daley joined the sisters of the Good Samaritans whose mission was to assist the destiture women of the streets of Sydney.Perhaps they were taken in by the church??


Sources: Family Oral history; Hunter Valley Parish Register;NSW BDM; Maitland Mercury: Mary Ann Ballenden; Sandra Arrell; Newcastle family History Society; NSW State records Kingswood.Dungog Family History Soc and Museum.Mitchell Library NSW.NSW Government Gazette 1852 Dixon Library uni of New England

Many thanks to Sandra Arrell, Lynne Bone and Mick Reed