Stories of Agnes Cahill

New threads revealed through DNA — connecting lives, places, and generations Every family has its quiet questions — stories half-told, details never written down but often wondered about. One such story belongs to Minnie Alious Hookeywin (born 1896 at Bellingen; died 1982 at Newtown) - pictured here. Minnie is not one of my direct ancestors, but she connects to my extended family through marriage. Her mother, Emily Jane Hookeywin , later married Thomas Cahill (known as Carroll ) — the brother of my great-grandmother, Agnes Cahill . From this point forward, he is referred to as Carroll , the name by which he was known to Emily and their family. There is no clear reason for the change of name. Thomas and his relatives continued to be known within the wider Cahill family, so the variation was most likely a simple misunderstanding — perhaps the way his name was heard or recorded after he moved from the Cahill family’s home in the Hunter region to northern New South Wales, where he met an...

Here's the link to Myra's story  Part 1  and  Part 2 . Myra is my half grand-aunt. On 11 October 1919,  twenty year old Myra married fifty year old divorced father of two, Robert Hollyford Whitworth, in Sydney. Myra was estranged from our family in the second half of the 1920s. I found Myra in 2017.  The last piece of this puzzle was to find out about Whitworth's family. Family Notices (1919, October 20).  Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954) , p. 4. Retrieved December 9, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14007329 The parents and siblings of Robert Hollyford Whitworth Robert Hollyford Whitworth was the fifth of the six children of Robert Percy Whitworth (RPW) and Margaret Rivers Smith. RPW was born in 1831 in Devonshire England (1). Margaret was born in 1834 in Lancashire. They married in 1854 at Manchester Cathedral. RPW was a barrister's clerk.  Their first child, Alma Rivers Whitworth , was born in 1855 in Man...

Here's the link to  Myra's story (Part 1) . Myra is the half sister of my grandfather, James Oswald Woodlands. On 11 October 1919, my twenty year old half grand-aunt, Myra Woodland, married fifty year old divorced father of two, Robert Hollyford Whitworth, in Sydney. This is the only photo we have of Myra who is with her little sister Lorna around the time of her marriage. Both Lorna and my Dad, Myra's half nephew, remembered meeting Myra when they were young children. Dad was six years younger than Lorna. Their recollection was that she would return home when she was in need and would then depart without warning. There was never any mention of a marriage. On one occasion, her father told her that, if she left without warning again, she wasn't welcome back. That was the last time Lorna and Dad saw Myra. We don't know if her parents had any further contact with Myra. I'm thinking this would have been between 1923 and 1930 when James and Agnes Woodland moved from ...