It’s wonderful how a lot data will be gained from newspaper household notices, and specifically funeral notices.
Right here is an instance from Trove within the Sydney Morning Herald of Tuesday 27 November 1900, on web page 10:
I had been looking for the loss of life of 1 Mary Nugent. What I can study this household from these three notices is that this Mary Nugent was the spouse of Mr P. Nugent (maybe Patrick?). They lived at 57 Balmain Street, Leichhardt, and their (surviving) youngsters had been James, Francis, Alfred, William and George. Additionally they had a daughter, Mary, who married William Beardmore.
It is a lot of details about one household, and is particularly helpful the place the surname is comparatively frequent, such {that a} search within the NSW BDM indexes is inconclusive. It’s much more helpful if the youngsters had been born after the 100 12 months cutoff for the NSW Beginning Index (at the moment 1911), the place I’d in any other case have needed to order a duplicate of the loss of life registration to see who her youngsters had been.
Sadly this isn’t the Mary Nugent I used to be on the lookout for, as she was a widow. If she had remarried, and she or he could have, her surname could be completely different. No less than there’s sufficient proof in these funeral notices for me to low cost this Mary with none additional looking. And what a bonus it could have been if she was the Mary I used to be looking for!
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