Frances Elizabeth Walsh

  General Notes:

Arrived July 1859 on the Lady Emma Bruce
Walsh, Elizabeth 17. House servant from Dublin, Co Dublin. Parents, James and Anne both dead.
Roman Catholic, able to both read and write
Relative in Colony- Aunt Elizabeth Barber. Newcastle. Character good
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896

Brown eyes and curly hair.
Came from Cork in Ireleand but her background was in Dublin. Her father was a clerk and he and his wife died with a fever. Elizabeth was looked after by some friends. Then her uncle who was in NSW bought her to Sydney.
Took in washing at one stage when the family was very poor and her husband was gone.
Eldest child was married to a Captain because Alfred didn't want to have any old maids in the family and also to help Frances when she was old.
Lived in one of the houses from her father in law when she was older, the house was near Stockton beach.
When the estate was broken up Elizabeths father said he didn't need any money so it went to his sister who was a widow with two children to raise. So none of the money came down this side of the family.
Lived until she was 91 years old (death notice says she was 88, not 91).
Elizabeth Pratt

SMITHFrances ElizabethDeath notice05DEC1929Death88at StocktonNewcastle Herald14 DEC 1929
Ryersonindex.org

Name:Frances E Smith
Death Date:1929
Death Place:New South Wales
Registration Year:1929
Registration Place:Stockton, New South Wales
Registration Number:24122
Ancestry.com. Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

SMITH FRANCES E 24122/1929 87 YRS STOCKTON STOCKTON

Frances married Alfred Sydney Smith, son of John Smith (James Sidebottom) and Mary Brian, on 12 Aug 1861 in Newcaslte, New South Wales, Australia.⁶² (Alfred Sydney Smith was born on 1 Aug 1837 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, christened on 27 Aug 1837 in Christ Church, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, died on 18 Jan 1887 in Stockton Newcastle, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA ⁶³ and was buried on 19 Jan 1887 in Newcastle Cemetery, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA.). The cause of his death was Carcinoma of Pancreas.

  Marriage Notes:

MARRIAGE.
At Newcastle, on the 12th instant, by the Registrar, Mr.
Alfred Sydney Smith, of Fullerton Cove, to Miss Francis
Elizabeth Walsh, of Tremerton Park, near Newcastle.
The Newcastle Chronicle.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1861.
1861 'Family Notices', The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News (NSW : 1859 - 1866), 14 August, p. 2. , viewed 10 Nov 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111166925