Mary Ann, the youngest child of James Cahill and Eliza Dunn was born on 4 October 1870
Monday 4 October 2020 was the 150th anniversary of the birth of the last child of James Cahill and his wife, Eliza Dunn. Mary Ann Cahill was born on 4 October 1870 at Belford, near Singleton in NSW. She was the eleventh child - although her birth certificate shows that she was the tenth of James and Eliza's children with 3 boys and 3 girls living and a son and two daughters deceased! As many will recall, I've not been able to find a birth or baptismal registration for my great-grandmother Agnes, the ninth child, who was born about 1867. I've not been able to locate birth and death registrations for the fifth child, Johanna (know also as Hannah and Minnie). However, James and Eliza's death certificates both record there were eleven children with three dying as infants. So here's the information that's been gathered on the children- Catherine was born on 15 April 1856 in East Maitland. She died in Murrurundi on 21 January 1913. She ...