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Mary BARRET (1810 - )

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Mary Ann (WELLSMERE) WELLSMORE (1836 - 1865) Thomas WELLSMORE (1837 - 1908) James WELLSMORE (1838 - 1920)	Mary BARRET (1810 - ) + Thomas WELLSMORE WILLSMORE (1802 - 1876)

b. 1810 at Ireland

m. 1835 Thomas WELLSMORE WILLSMORE (1802 - 1876) at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Near Relatives of Mary BARRET (1810 - )
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Self	Mary BARRET	1810	Ireland
Husband	Thomas WELLSMORE WILLSMORE	1802	Essex, England	1876	Cooma, New South Wales, Australia	74
Daughter	Mary Ann (WELLSMERE) WELLSMORE	1836	New South Wales, Australia	1865	Cooma, New South Wales, Australia	29
Son	Thomas WELLSMORE	1837	Arable, near Nimitabel, NSW, Australia	1908	Cooma, New South Wales, Australia	71
Son	James WELLSMORE	1838	Queanbeyan, ACT, Australia	1920	Bombala, New South Wales, Australia	82
Son in Law	Thomas FLEMING	1814	St Marylebone, Middlesex, England	1904	Liverpool, NSW, Australia	90
Daughter in Law	Mary RANKIN	1840	Argyllshire, Scotland	1919	Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia	79
Daughter in Law	Ellen Sarah WHALEN	1844	New South Wales, Australia	1914	Dalgety, Monaro, New South Wales, Austalia	70
Grandson	Thomas FLEMING	1854	Goulburn, NSW, Australia	1901	Mackay, Queenland, Australia	47

Events in Mary BARRET (1810 - )'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1810		Mary BARRET was born	Ireland	Note 1
1832	22	Immigration	'Red Rover' from Cork to Sydney	Note 2
1835	25	Married Thomas WELLSMORE WILLSMORE (aged 33)	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	Note 3	52
1836	26	Birth of daughter Mary Ann (WELLSMERE) WELLSMORE	New South Wales, Australia	Burial info
1837	27	Birth of son Thomas WELLSMORE	Arable, near Nimitabel, NSW, Australia	Coroners report on death
1838	28	Birth of son James WELLSMORE	Queanbeyan, ACT, Australia	Burial info
1865	55	Death of daughter Mary Ann (WELLSMERE) WELLSMORE (aged 29)	Cooma, New South Wales, Australia	Note 4	52
1876	66	Death of husband Thomas WELLSMORE WILLSMORE (aged 74)	Cooma, New South Wales, Australia	Note 5	60
1908	98	Death of son Thomas WELLSMORE (aged 71)	Cooma, New South Wales, Australia	Note 6	52
1920	110	Death of son James WELLSMORE (aged 82)	Bombala, New South Wales, Australia	Note 7	52

Note 1: If arrived on the ‘Red Rover in 1832 - age 22 makes her birth year c 1810. ‘Red Rover’ carried 202 females for Ireland

Note 2: POSSIBLE 'Red Rover" - August 1832 - from Cork 202 free women from Ireland Mary Barrett (22), servant assigned to Mrs. Bowen, Sydney for 10 pounds a year

Note 3: Thos Willsmore in the New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts' Applications to Marry, 1826-1851 Name: Thos Willsmore Age: 31 Birth Year: Abt 1804 Spouse: Mary Barrett Request Status: Granted Date of Permission/Refusal: 26 Aug 1835 Thomas Willsmore in the Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950 Name: Thomas Willsmore Marriage Date: 1835 Marriage Place: Sydney, New South Wales Registration Date: 1835 Registration Place: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Spouse: Mary Barrett Volume Number: V

Note 4: Burial info Mary Wellsmore in the Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985 Name: Mary Wellsmore Death Date: 1865 Death Place: Cooma, New South Wales Registration Date: 1865 Registration Place: Cooma, Australia Father: Thomas Mother: Mary Registration Number: 3384

Note 5: Burial info Sydney Morning Herald 12 July 1876 'On the 1st instant the dead body of a man, named Thomas Wellsmore, was found in a gully near Cooma. It appears that he left his home on the 21st June, and was seen near home on that day. Mr H. Dawson, coroner, held an inquest on the remains on Monday last, the verdict of the jury being 'that Thomas Wellsmore came to his death by rupture of the heart; that there was no evidence to show on what day he died. A cheque for £8, and a bank deposit receipt for £ 04, were found on the body'.

Note 6: Thomas Wellsmore in the Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985 Name: Thomas Wellsmore Death Date: 1908 Death Place: Cooma, New South Wales Registration Date: 1908 Registration Place: Cooma, Australia Father: Thomas Mother: Mary Registration Number: 9140 Thomas Wellsmore in the Sydney, Australia, Cemetery Headstone Transcriptions, 1837-2003 Name: Thomas Wellsmore Age: 71 Birth Date: abt 1837 Death Date: 10 Sep 1908 Burial Place: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Cemetery: Rookwood Section: 5D Row: 8 Inscription: our father. Died at Dalgety Denomination: Presbyterian Thomas Willsmore in the New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Coroners' Inquests, 1821-1937 Name: Thomas Willsmore Birth Year: abt 1837 Birth Place: Arable, Cooma District Death Year: Abt 1908 Death Place: Marimambla, Dalgety Inquest Date: 12 Sep 1908 Inquest Place: Rock Flat, Near Dalgety Age: 71

Note 7: Burial info James Wellsmore in the Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985 Name: James Wellsmore Death Date: 1920 Death Place: Bombala, New South Wales Registration Date: 1920 Registration Place: Bombala, Australia Father: Thomas Registration Number: 6921

Personal Notes:

From an Ancestry tree Mary Barrett was born in 1815 in Cork, Cork. She had two sons and one daughter with Thomas Willsmore between 1836 and 1838. She died as a young mother in 1845 at the age of 30. Mary Barrett arrived in Sydney in February 1832 from Cork in Ireland as a free woman. Thomas applied to marry her in August 1835 and they were married in St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney in September. Thomas was appointed a policeman for Queanbeyan in May 1839 and his wife and family of three young children moved into a hut at Bungendore, where Mary was overcome by two bushrangers who burst into her home while her husband was absent. Mary Welsmore gave evidence in the trial of the bushranger Paddy Curran in 1841 when he was convicted of rape and murder and sentenced to death.

Source References:

52. Type: Australia Birth Marriage Death Index 1787 - 1985 Record

- Reference = (Marriage)

- Notes: Thomas Willsmore in the Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950 Name: Thomas Willsmore Marriage Date: 1835 Marriage Place: Sydney, New South Wales Registration Date: 1835 Registration Place: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Spouse: Mary Barrett Volume Number: V

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