Descendants of Margaret O'Hara

Margaret O' Hara, daughter of Joseph O' Hara and Margaret Kellett, was born in 1837 ¹ in Virginia, County Cavan, Ireland ². She died on 5 Jun 1890 ³ in Manly, New South Wales, Australia and was buried 6 June 1890 in Manly Cemetery. She married (1) before August 1859 in Melbourne, Victoria, or had a defacto relationship with, William Smith. She married  (2) on 19 May 1870 ⁸ in the Free Church of England in Burton St., Sydney, NSW, Robert Mildwater, born 19 June 1847 ⁸⁸ ; died 5 May 1903 ⁹ ; buried 7 May 1903 in Manly Cemetery, son of William Mildwater (ca.1818-1887) and Jane Selby (ca.1821-1891).

Margaret & husband Robert Mildwater
ca. 1890 ⁹⁸

Headstone in Manly Cemetery ⁹⁶

Birth & Emigration

          Margaret O'Hara's 1837 birth was too early for surviving Church of Ireland baptism records for the area where she was born in eastern County Cavan. When registering the birth of her fourth child in 1877 she gave her birthplace as Virginia ⁸⁷. Virginia is a small town in Lurgan parish situated on the shore of Lough Ramor about three miles south-east of Lissanymore townland in Killinkere parish where her parents were recorded as residing in 1840 at the time of the baptism of Margaret's younger sister Martha at the Billis Church of Ireland in that parish. This suggests Margaret was likely born in Lissanymore but in 1877 gave her birth place as Virginia because it was the nearest town and unlike a townland identifiable on ordinary maps.
        Margaret arrived on 28 July 1855 in Sydney in the colony of New South Wales at age eighteen as an assisted immigrant on the Mangerton in a party comprising her older sister Jane, Jane's first husband William Sheils (who travelled under the assumed name of Samuel O'Hara), and three female cousins. She had six children and twenty-four grandchildren.

First Marriage

        No record has been identified in the NSW or Victorian BDM indexes of a first marriage to William Smith who Margaret gave as her husband and father of her first child Martha when she registered the March 1860 birth in Sydney in May 1860. The record had the marriage year as 1859 and the place as Melbourne. Official registration of marriages began six years earlier in Victoria in July 1853 and the first indexed Margaret O'Hara marriage is not until 1860 - being that of a Margaret Jane O'Hara to John Denis Morrison.
        The available records are contradictory as to whether the purported William Smith marriage was factual or a defacto relationship. On the one hand the August 1859 Sydney death registration for William Sheils, the first husband of Margaret's older sister Jane for which in the capacity of his sister-in-law Margaret was the registration informant, had her name as Mrs. M. Smith. That she was using the name of Mrs. Smith in August 1859 seven months before Martha's birth suggests that prior to then there had been a William Smith marriage. However there must be some doubt as the ten years later 1870 registration record for her marriage to Robert Mildwater gave her then name as Margaret O'Hara and status as spinster!
        As in the 19th century a social stigma attached to being an unmarried mother, it would be unlikely if Margaret did marry William Smith in 1859 in Melbourne and, knew he was deceased, her status would have been recorded as spinster instead of a widow when she married Robert Mildwater in Sydney 1870. If she and Smith did marry, because there was only one child, a possible scenario is William Smith deserted her soon after the marriage and, not knowing if he were alive or dead, a decade later when again marrying Margaret opted to give her status as spinster rather than widow because if ever called upon to do so she would not have been able to produce evidence of Smith's death with potentially serious legal consequences if he was found to be still alive!
        Daughter Martha's 1860 birth registration gave the place of the birth as Bank Street, Pyrmont and father's name as William Smith, by occupation a mariner, aged 28 (thus born ca. 1832), and likewise to Margaret born in County Cavan, Ireland. An extensive search of the assisted immigration records indexes etc. for all named William Smith with a birth year 5 years either side of 1832 and a County Cavan birthplace failed to identify him. There was an Irish immigrant named William Smith (son of Alexander Smith and Rebecca Macleay) aboard the Mangerton with Margaret on the 1855 voyage to Australia, and co-incidently basis the age of 23 given for him upon arrival, he would have been aged 28 when the birth of Martha was registered in 1860. However his occupation was given in the immigration record as a farm labourer and the record indicates a birthplace of County Londonderry or adjoining County Tyrone that are seperated from Co. Cavan by other counties. Also making him a most unlikely candidate for Margaret's William Smith is that he seemingly married Jessie Scanes in Yass in 1860 with their first child born there that same year, and likely was in the Yass area with his mother Rebecca and step-father Walter Grieves and several siblings from shortly after the Mangerton's arrived in 1855. According to a published arrival account the 1855 Smith/Grieves party were preceeded to the Yass district by Walter Grieves's only son from his first marriage and William Smith's one year younger sister Rebecca who are recorded as living there from at least 1855 and possibly were there from as early as 1853 when they first arrived in Australia. The BDM indexes seemingly list this William Smith and his wife Jessie as having had 12 children registered at Yass from 1860 to 1880 and dying there respectively in 1912 and 1919.
        In summary prima facie the cited 1859 death and 1860 birth official records indicate there was a marriage that for some reason was not subsequently picked up by the Victorian BDM registry or was overlooked in the compilation of the index. Only very rarely would returns by the clergy and the registered celebrants of marriages performed in a city such as Melbourne not have been lodged with the registry. In some cases they may have been lost in fires or floods etc. prior to lodgement. It would seem in August 1859, when she was first recorded as Mrs. M. Smith, with many relatives in Sydney such as the families of Wauhop, Love, and Wilkinson who when Martha was born at Pyrmont were mostly residing in nearby localities, that Margaret must surely have been known to them as Mrs. Smith prior to August 1859 when she was informant for the William Sheils death registration.
        However where there should be a civil marriage record but isn't there must be doubt whether there was a formal marriage. That Melbourne as the place of the purported Smith marriage was out of the legal jurisdiction where Margaret is known to have been living in August 1859 only heightens that doubt. It is possible that William Smith was already married. There were no divorce laws anywhere in Australia then and it was not uncommon for couples unable to marry because of a previous marriage to live together as husband and wife and be listed as married persons in their children's birth registrations. There was no civil divorce legislation in Victoria until 1861 and after then, whilst divorces could initially be obtained on the ground of adultery, the cost of proving such and obtaining a divorce made it prohibitive for most and the same applied in respect of the twelve years later 1873 introduced first NSW divorce legislation that mirrored England's 1857 pioneer divorce legislation. The Sydney Morning Herald of 26 Jul 1873 estimated the cost of obtaining a divorce under that first NSW legislation at £300 to £400 ⁹³. In any event there is no Margaret Smith divorce between 1861 and 1870 listed in the online Victorian Divorce Index 1861-1900 ruling out a divorce there prior to the 1870 Robert Mildwater marriage. Whether a married man or not it follows William Smith must have died, gone missing, or abandoned Margaret. As many with the name William Smith died in NSW in the decade of the 1860s if such was his fate without knowing his parents names derived from the absent marriage record he cannot be identified in the death indexes.

Second Marriage

        The record of Margaret's 1870 marriage to Robert Mildwater gave Robert's occupation as a carrier and Margaret's as a domestic and their usual addresses as Manly Beach. Robert was listed in the Sydney Sands Directory for 1873, living at Steyne, Manly Beach, and again at the same address in 1875 - in the latter instance with his occupation given as carter. The children's birth registrations from 1873 to 1880 had his address as Raglan Street, Manly and in 1902 and 1903 he was listed in the Sands directories at Belgrave Street, Manly.
        It seems actual or anticipated Mildwater parental opposition to the marriage of their 22 years old son to one 10 years his senior with a 10 year old daughter would have been the reason for them apparently having eloped. That such was the case is suggested by the venue for the marriage having been a "marriage shop" located a steamer trip across the harbour in the town of Sydney instead of a church at Manly where the registration record stated both parties usually resided and, where the Mildwater family were long established as district pioneers and their elder son William Jr. had married four years earlier in 1866, and where at least the Anglican and Wesley churches held regular services. For more on the context of the 1870 marriage to Robert Mildwater see the below source footnote at: ⁹¹

Death

        Margaret died in 1890 from typhoid fever after an illness lasting 18 days. Her death registration gave her religion as Wesleyan and she is buried with her husband and only son Robert J. on the Harland Street side of Manly Cemetery (aka West Manly Cemetery) in grave #145 with the above pictured headstone. Her 1890 death registration did not name either of her parents and, whilst naming her five Mildwater children, omitted first child Martha's name. It also incorrectly gave Cork, Ireland as her birthplace whereas the birth registrations of all six of her children gave her birthplace as County Cavan. The information was also in error in respect to her period in NSW in stating it had been 30 years instead of 35. It would seem likely the 30 years was a calculation based on her family's knowledge she had been eighteen when she arrived in Australia and an understanding she was aged 49 when she died. The errors suggest a reticence by Margaret in regard to the particulars of her five years in Australia prior to Martha's March 1860 Sydney birth.
        Husband Robert's 1903 death registration gave his occupation as a quarryman and the cause of death as pneumonia and  cardiac failure. His 1901 made will left his estate to his four surviving daughters and step-daughter. The newspaper death notice stated he was formerly of Manly and at the time of death was residing with his step-daughter and her husband W. J. Askins at their residence in Blandville. (Blandville was a early locality name in the suburb Henly located on the north side of the Parramatta River about a kilometre west of the Gladesville Bridge). The death record gave the address as Dick Street, Henley. Coincidently 1903 was also the year American born John Thomas Williams, the widower second husband of Margaret's elder sister Jane, also died in Sydney.

Mildwater name origin & history

        It is understood the Mildwater surname traces back to a Thomas Mylewater, who was the receiver (or treasurer) to Richard, 3rd Duke of York (father of Edward IV and Richard III) and, the Mylewater estate at Stoke Edith Park in Hereford (which came into the family in the late 1300s) is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 ⁸⁷. A transcript of Robert and Margaret's 1870 marriage record has his surname as Mildwaters - a spelling also noted in the early Sydney Sands directories and the Birth, Death & Marriages indexes. His 1847 church parish baptism was phonetically entered in the register as Mildworters and is BDM indexed as such. His parents names appear on a transcript of his 1903 death registration as William and Jane Sylvia. However as the registration requirement was for the spouse's full maiden name it seems very likely "Sylvia" was not his mother's second given name but a corruption of her Selby surname. This record gave the occupation of Robert's father William as carpenter. His father would have been the William Mildwater listed in the Sydney Sands Directory for 1870 with the occupation of carpenter residing in Whistler Street, Manly Beach and in the 1871 directory at that address with occupation of grocer, and in the directory for 1873 directory listed at Manly under the surname of Mildwaters. In 1875 he was still at the Whistler Street address but his occupation had reverted to carpenter.
        William's parents Thomas and Jane (nee Cornick/Gundick/Gundry) married in 1796 at the St John the Baptist church at Yeovil in Somerset, England. Four of their six known sons and a daughter emigrated to Sydney. They were born a few kilometeres east of Yeovil and south of Sherborne in Dorset and christened at the Church of St. James in the small village of Longburton. Likewise to their father Thomas the sons who emigrated were carpenters. William was likely the first to arrive in Sydney about 1839. Sometime before 1856 he was joined by his sister Sophia Carpenter, who subsequently acted as midwife at the birth of some of Jeremiah's children. Then in 1856 followed Robert (1803-1879) and his wife Mary and 2 sons, in 1858 Jeremiah (1822-1880) and wife Rosanna Short, and lastly in 1877 Joseph (1820-1895) and his second wife Emma Bright. Descendants of William's uncle George Mildwaters emigrated to South Australia ⁸⁹.
        At the end of twentieth century all of the Mildwater(s) name in Australia were believed to be descendants of this one family. William married Jane Selby on 16 July 1840 at The Scots Church (Presbyterian), Sydney. His surname was entered in the parish register as Mildwater although he signed as Mildwaters ⁸⁶. It is said the couple lived at  Globe Street and Windmill Street in the Rocks area, below the now Sydney Harbour Bridge and, that he opened a grocer's shop in Windmill Street before moving from there to the North Harbour (Manly) area about 1847 where he built clinker style boats and became a prominent builder ⁹⁰. Advice from a family source is at the time William and Jane moved to Manly they are understood to have been one of only seven white families in the area ⁸⁷. William and a business partner Thomas Wilson are recorded as applying for a Deed of Grant for land purchased at a Sydney sale held on 15 Dec 1853, located between Curl Curl Creek (now Manly Creek) and Wyadra Avenue, between two parts of what was the John Wheeler Estate ⁹⁰. He built a two-storey home at Lot 28 Whistler Street, adjoining an aboriginal ceremonial ground where the Catholic Church was later built and, where his wife Jane commenced and ran a general provisions store from about 1863 until her death in 1891, in the early days having the bread for the shop brought daily from Sydney. In the 1870s the adjoining aboriginal camp was nearly always occupied by a tribe of aboriginals, then an everyday feature of Manly life ⁹². It is thought their home named Westco, which was located on the corner of Belgrave Street and Pittwater Road, was built about 1876 ⁹⁰.
      Eleven children births from 1841 to 1854, extracted from church parish baptism records, are listed for the couple in the NSW BDM indexes under the surnames of Mildwater, Mildwaters and Mildworters of whom it is understood seven survived to adulthood ⁸⁷. Their 1851 born daughter was named Theresa. No doubt her name and her mother's Jane were reflected in the naming by Robert and Margaret of their first born child - "Theresa Jane". William Mildwater died on 8 Jan 1887 and Jane on 29 July 1891. William's death registration was apparently in error in one respect. It gave his parent's names as Joseph and Jane instead of Thomas and Jane. In the 19th century Manly was one of only two major 19th century burial grounds on Sydney's north side. The pioneer couple are buried in Manly Cemetery near the Manly West Public school. ⁸⁵. The headstone, of which only the top half is inscribed, was overturned by vandals in 2003 and irreparably broken into two pieces. The below photograph was taken in 1985 before the desecration.

Children of Margaret O'Hara and William Smith were:
+   2.     i.    Martha Amelia Smith

Children of Margaret O'Hara and Robert Mildwater were:
+   3.    i.    Theresa Jane Mildwater
     4.    ii.   Robert Joseph Mildwater 
+   5.    iii.  Margaret Florence Mildwater
+   6.    iv.  Josephine Elizabeth Mildwater
+   7.    v.   Ethel May Mildwater

2.   Martha Amelia Smith was born 25 March 1860 ⁴  at Pyrmont in Sydney, NSW, Australia. She died 27 Aug 1935 ⁵ at Marrickville, NSW. She married William Joseph Askins on 25 March 1879 ⁶  reg. Manly, NSW, b. ca. 1859 ⁸⁰; d. 25 Aug 1923 ⁸⁰ at Randwick, NSW.

        At birth her given name was registered just as Martha. When she married in 1879 on her birthday the registration record had it as Martha Amelia. Presumably her second given name of Amelia whilst not appearing on her birth registration was bestowed at that time and derived from the name of one of the birth witnesses - Amelia Dent. The marriage registration did not give the names of the parents of either party or any details except that William Askin's then occupation was a confectioner. Martha's 1935 death registration also omitted her parents names.
       Husband William may have worked for Mr. Hippolyte Aurousseau, a Frenchman, who in 1868 purchased the first and then only bakery at Manly and, besides baking bread, made cakes and pastry, candied lemon, orange and citron peel and sweets etc. Later Mr. Aurousseau apparently specialised as he was listed in the Sydney Sands Directory for 1877 as a confectioner at The Corso, Manly. By the end of 1879 he had moved across the harbour and was listed in the Sands Directory for 1880 as a confectioner at King Street, Newtown.
        The first instance of the Askins surname found in NSW BDM Indexes is for the death of a James Askins at Parramatta in 1791 who likely came free as he was not stated to have been a convict. None of the Askins surname are listed in the 1828 census of the colony. The birth of William Joseph is not indexed under the surname. After 1857 the only instances of the Askins surname found in the NSW indexes through to the current (at the time of this compilation) termination year of 1945 are in respect of William Joseph and Martha Amelia and their descendants. The newspaper obituary and BDM indexed registration for William's 1923 death has him as aged 64 indicating a circa 1859 birth year.
        In 1903, when Martha's step-father Robert died at their residence they were living in Dick Street in the locality of Blandville in the suburb Henley on the Parramatta River. That year the Commonwealth electoral roll for the division of North Sydney (Gladesville polling place) listed them both at this Henley address and William's occupation was given as a cabinet maker. In the 1913 electoral roll they were no longer listed at the address - by then in the Parramatta electorate (Hunters Hill polling place). The Sydney Sands Directory suggests that by 1904 they had moved. In the issues for 1904 and 1905 it listed William J Askins at Dick Street, without giving the suburb, which was no doubt Henley. However confusingly it also listed a seemingly duplicate W. J. Askins at Devonshire Street in 1904, and in 1905 at 65 Macquarie Street, South - both without giving the suburb which as several suburbs had those street names suggests that perhaps the streets were respectively the ones of that name in Surry Hills and the inner city?

Children of Martha Amelia Smith and William Joseph Askins were:
     8.    i.     Robert William Askins  b. 1880 ²² reg. Sydney, NSW; d. 1882 ²³ reg. Sydney
+   9.   ii.     Sydney George T Askins
+  10.  iii.    Margaret E Askins
    11.  iv.    Herbert J Askins  b. 1886 ²⁸ reg. Ashfield, NSW.
    12.  v.     Claribell F Askins  b. 1888 ²⁹ reg. St. Peters, NSW.
+  13.  vi.    Olive T Askins
+  14.  vii.   Myrtle B Askins
+  15.  viii.  Rita M Askins
+  16.  ix.    Wilfred R Askins
+  17.  x.     Vera L Askins
    18.  xi.    Norman H Askins  b. 1900 ⁴⁰ reg. Ryde, NSW.
+  19.  xii.   Berl U Askins (Twin)
+  20.  xiii.  Hilda V Askins (Twin)
+  21.  xiv.  Ernest Stanley Askins

3. Theresa Jane Mildwater was born 16 Nov 1870 ^{10, 11}  in Manly, NSW. She married Walter George Hanson in 1890 ¹²  reg. Manly, NSW, d. 1945 ⁸¹ reg. Manly, son of Alexander Charles Hanson and Elizabeth Ester.

Children of Theresa Jane Mildwater and Walter George Hanson were:
+   22   i.     Alexander C Hanson

4.5.   Robert Joseph Mildwater  b. 16 Feb 1873 ¹³ reg. St Leonards, NSW ; d. 19 Feb 1876 ¹⁴ reg. Sydney, NSW.

5.   Margaret Florence Mildwater was born 1 Aug 1877 ¹⁵ in Manly, NSW; died Mar. 1956 reg. Auburn, NSW. She married in 1902 ¹⁶ reg. Manly, NSW, Norman Lancelot Nichols, b. 1876 reg. Sydney, NSW; d. Oct. 1960 reg. Chatswood, NSW, son of Francis Stephen Sydney Nichols (1840-1893) and Mary Esther Mitchell.

        Margaret Florence's husband Norman was a great-great grandson of First Fleeter Esther Abrahams who married Colonel George Johnston of "Annandale", who when in command of the New South Wales Corps in 1808 deposed Governor Bligh on the 20th anniversary of the founding of the colony, and assumed the position as the head of the colonial government until a senior officer arrived from England six months later.
        Norman was a great grandson of the first colonial postmaster Isaac Nichols who married Esther Abraham's daughter Rosanna who was born in Newgate Goal in March 1787, and a grandson of Issac and Rosanna's thrice married son George Robert Nichols (ca.1809-1857) who founded the Australian law firm of Clayton Utz and was a member of the first colonial government. ⁸⁷

Children of Margaret Florence Mildwater and Norman Lancelot Nichols were:
+   23   i      Francis M Nichols
+   24   ii     Doris Murial Nichols
+   25   iii    Marjorie Florence Nichols
+   26   iv    Iris Josephine Nichols
+   27   v     Cedric Norman Belton Nichols

6.   Josephine Elizabeth Mildwater was born in 10 Feb 1880 ¹⁷ in Manly, NSW. She married Samuel B Lee in 1903 ¹⁸ reg. Sydney, NSW.

        Her husband Samuel was informant for the 1903 death registration of her father Robert. Samuel's address was incorrectly spelt in that record as Harriette (correctly spelt Harietta) Street, Neutral Bay.

Children of Josephine Elizabeth Mildwater and Samuel B Lee were:
     28.  i       Donald R Lee b. 1903 ⁵⁸ reg. Mosman, NSW.
+   29.  ii      Katherine M Lee
     30.  iii     Eric B Lee b.  1907 ⁶¹ reg. St. Leonards, NSW.

7.   Ethel May Mildwater was born 7 Apr 1882 ¹⁹ reg. Manly, NSW, and died in 1922 ²⁰ reg. Randwick, NSW. She married Walter Gahagan in 1902 ²¹ reg. Manly, NSW.

Children of Ethel May Mildwater and Walter Gagagan were:
     31.  i.     Doreen E.M. Gahagan b. 1902 ⁶² reg. Manly, NSW;  d. 1929 ⁶³ reg. Manly, NSW.

9.    Sydney George T Askins was born in 1882 ²⁴  reg. Sydney, NSW. He married Ada E "Unknown" in 1922 ²⁵  reg. Kogarah, NSW.

10.   Margaret E Askins was born in 1884 ²⁶  reg. Ashfield, NSW. She married Frederick Thomas in 1901 ²⁷  reg. at Drummoyne, NSW.

Children of Margaret E Askins and Frederick Thomas were:
     32.  i.     Phyllis I Thomas  b. 1902 ⁶⁴   reg. Drummoyne, NSW.
     33.  ii.    Gladys E Thomas b. 1904 ⁶⁵  reg. Ryde, NSW.
     34.  iii.   Leslie H Thomas  b.1906 ⁶⁶  reg. Drummoyne, NSW.
     35.  iv.   Edgar R Thomas  b. 1908 ⁶⁷  reg. Drummoyne, NSW.
+   36.   v.   Clifton R Thomas
     37.  vi.   Geoffrey Thomas b. 1911 ⁶⁹  reg. Ryde, NSW.
     38.  vii.  Gwenith L Thomas b. 1912 ⁷⁰  reg. Hunters Hill, NSW.
+   39.  viii. Alona F Thomas

13.   Olive T Askins was born in 1889 ³⁰  reg. Ashfield, NSW. She married James R Campbell in 1916 ³¹  reg. Redfern, NSW.

Children of Olive T Askins and James R Campbell were:
     40.  i.     Donald A Campbell  b. 1917 ⁷¹  reg. Sydney, NSW.

14.   Myrtle B Askins was born in 1893 ³²  reg. Hurstville, NSW. She married William Cook in 1916 ³³  reg. Woolahra, NSW.

Children of Myrtle B Askins and William Cook were:
     41.   i.    Myrtle E Cook  b. 1916 ⁷³  reg. Kiama, NSW.
+   42.  ii.    Florence Jessie Cook

15.   Rita M Askins was born in 1895 ³⁴  reg. Castle Hill, NSW. She married Joseph W Bradcock in 1916 ³⁵  reg. Rockdale, NSW.

Children of Rita B Askins and Joseph W Bradcock were:
 +  43.  i.     Beryl J Bradcock

16. Wilfred R Askins was born in 1897 ³⁶  reg. Granville, NSW. He married Rene H Creighton in 1917 ³⁷ reg. Woollahra, NSW.

Children of Wilfred R Atkins and Rene H Ceighton were:
+   44.  i.     Wilfred Gordon Askins

17. Vera L Askins was born in 1899 ³⁸  reg. Parramatta, NSW. From an unknown defacto relationship she had issue in 1917. She married James R Neich in 1919 ⁸²  reg. Bowral, NSW.

Children of Vera L Askins and unknown defacto were:
     45.  i.     Donald A Askins  b. 1917 ³⁹  reg. Rockdale, NSW.

19. Berl U Askins (Twin) was born in 1903 ⁴¹  reg. Ryde, NSW. She married Frank Barnes in 1927 ⁴²  reg. Manly, NSW.

20. Hilda V Askins (Twin) was born in 1903 ⁴³ reg. Ryde, NSW. She married Cecil E Whitfield in 1927 ⁴⁴ reg. Marrickville, NSW.

21. Ernest Stanley Askins was born in 1904 ⁴⁵  reg. Ryde, NSW. He married Lilian Dickinson in 1941 ⁴⁶  reg. Rockdale, NSW.

22 Alexander C Hanson was born in 1892 ⁴⁷ Manly, NSW. He married Lillian M Carpenter in 1920 ⁴⁸  reg. Rockdale, NSW.

Children of Alexander C Hanson and Lillian M Carpenter were: ⁹⁵
     46.  i.     Elaine Hanson

23. Francis M Nichols was born in 1902 ⁴⁹  reg. Redfern, NSW. He married Mary A G Jones in 1927 ⁵⁰  reg. Drummoyne, NSW.

Children of Francis M Nichols and Marry A. G. Jones were: ⁹⁵
     47.  i      Barry Francis Nichols b. 1933 ⁹⁵, d. 1935 ⁹⁵
 +  48. ii      Beverely Frances Nichols

24. Doris Murial Nichols was born in 1905 ⁸³  reg. Drummoyne. NSW. She married Bruce H Dent in 1932 ⁵¹  reg. Drummoyne, NSW.

Children of Doris Murial Nichols and Bruce H Dent were: ⁹⁵
+   49.  i.     Marjorie Dent
     50.  ii.    Nancy Dent

25. Marjorie Florence Nichols was born in 1907 ⁵²  reg. Drummoyne, NSW. She married in 1938 ⁵³  reg. Drummoyne, NSW, Donald Luckett b.1903 ⁹⁵; d.1975 ⁹⁵

Children of Marjorie Florence Nichols and Donald Luckett were: ⁹⁵
+   51.  i.     Lynette Marjorie Luckett
+   52.  ii     Roderick Donald Luckett
     53.  iii    Estelle Bernice Luckett

26  Iris Josephine Nichols was born in 1909 ⁵⁴ reg. Drummoyne, NSW. She married Frank B Hands in 1934 ⁵⁵  reg. Drummoyne, NSW.

Children of Iris Josephine Nichols and Frank B Hands: ⁹⁵
+   54.  i.     Glenda Alison Hands
+   55.  ii     William Norman Hands

27. Cedric Norman Belton Nichols was born in 1914 ⁵⁶  reg. Drummoyne, NSW; d. 1997 ⁹⁵. He married Sophia Florence Finlay in 1939 ⁵⁷  reg. Randwick, NSW.

Children of Cedric Norman Belton Nichols and Sophia Florence Finlay were: ⁹⁵
+   56.  i.     Gregory Nichols
+   57.  ii     Joan Anne Nichols

29. Katherine M Lee was born in 1905 ⁵⁹  reg. St. Leonards, NSW. She married Thomas W Mannell in 1925 ⁶⁰  reg. Manly, NSW.

Children of Katherine M Lee and Thomas W Mannell were: ⁹⁵
     58.  i      Maxwell Mannell
     59.  ii     Donald Mannell

36.  Clifton R Thomas was born in 1909 ⁶⁸  reg. Burwood, NSW. He married Kathleen J Kelly in 1930 ⁸⁴  reg. Sydney, NSW.

39.  Alona F Thomas was born in 1917 ⁷¹  reg. Marrickville, NSW. She married William George Daniel in 1937 ⁷²  reg. Marrickville, NSW.

42.  Florence Jessie Cook was born in 1918 ⁷⁴  reg. Kiama, NSW. She married Norman Geoffery Rixon in 1941 ⁷⁵  reg. Hornsby, NSW.

43.  Beryl J Bradcock was born in 1916 ⁷⁶  reg. Paddington, NSW. She married James John William O'Connor in 1939 ⁷⁷  reg. Rockdale, NSW.

44.  Wilfred Gordon Askins (an only child) was born in 1918 ⁷⁸  reg. Waverley, NSW. He married Gladys Joan Gray in 1941 ⁷⁹  reg. North Sydney, NSW.

Children of Wilfred Gordon Askins and Gladys Joan Gray were:
+   60.  i.     Paul Winston Askins
     61.  ii     Pam Askins

48.   Beverely Frances Nichols married Bruce Wilson.

Children of Beverely Francis Nichols and Bruce Watson were: ⁹⁵
+   62.  i.     Mark Wilson
+   63.  ii.    Leigh Wilson
+   64.  iii.   Graeme Wilson

49.   Marjorie Dent b. 10 Apr 1935; d. 20 Jul 2002. She married Steven J Delaney

Children of Marjorie Dent and Steven J Delaney were: ⁹⁵
+   65.  i.     Scott H Delaney
     66.  ii.    Craig S Delaney

51.   Lynette Marjorie Luckett married Robert Vigar.

Children of Lynette Marjorie Luckett and robert Vigar were: ⁹⁵
     67.  i.     Mathan James Vigar

52.   Roderick Donald Luckett married Rona Wong.

Children of Roderick Donald Luckett and Rona Wong were: ⁹⁵
     68.  i.     Juanita Veronica Luckett
     69.  ii.    Angelina Marjorie Luckett

54.  Glenda Alison Hands married Bruce McMillan.

Children of Glenda Alison Hands and Bruce McMillan were: ⁹⁵
     70.  i.     Alistair McMillan
     71.  ii.    Ross McMillan

55.  William Norman Hands married Cheryl Stevens.

Children of William Norman Hands and Cheryl Stevens were: ⁹⁵
+   72.  i.      Michelle Hands
     73.  ii.     Brett Hands
+   74.  iii.    Belinda Hands
     75.  iv      Stephen Hands

56.  Gregory Nichols married Bernie Henning.

Children of Gregory Nichols and Bernie Henning were: ⁹⁵
     76.  i.     Sarah Nichols
     77.  ii.    Rachel Nichols
     78.  iii.   Ben  Nichols

57.   Joan Anne Nichols married Lindsay Wilkin.

Children of Joan Ann Nichols and Lindsay Wilkin were: ⁹⁵
     79.  i.     Kelly Wilkin
     80.  ii.    Elizabeth Wilkin

60.   Paul Winston Askins. He married Joan Unknown.

Children of Paul Winston and Joan Unknown were:
     81.  i.    Simone Kate Askins
     82.  ii    Mark Paul Shaw Askins

61.    Pam Askins.

62.  Mark Wilson married Mary McLachlan.

Children of Mark Wilson and Mary McLachlan were: ⁹⁵
     83.  i.     Gregory Wilson

63.  Leigh Wilson married Albert Willering.

Children of Leigh Wilson and Albert Willering were: ⁹⁵
     84.  i.     Riley Willering
     85.  ii.    "Unknown" Willering

64.  Graeme Wilson  married Ruth Currie.

Children of Graeme Wilson and Ruth Currie were: ⁹⁵
     86.  i.     Alyse Wilson

65.  Scott H Delaney married Paula "Unknown". ⁹⁵

72.  Michelle Hands married Gordon McLeod. ⁹⁵

74.  Belina Hands married Mark Thompson.

Children of Belinda Hands and Mark Thompson were: ⁹⁵
     87.  i.     Luke Thompson
     88.  ii.    Corey Thompson
     89.  iii.   Ryan Thompson
     90.  iv    Anna Thompson