[Index]
Mary MCAULIFFE (1811 - 1898)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Ellen MCAULIFFE (1831 - 1858)
Margaret MCAULIFFE (1834 - 1918)
Deborah MCAULIFFE (1836 - 1919)
Mary MCAULIFFE (1839 - )
Flourence Joseph MCAULIFFE (1841 - 1886)
Jeremiah MCAULIFFE (1844 - 1920)
Thomas MCAULIFFE (1847 - 1925)
Bridget Mary MCAULIFFE (1849 - )
Honorah MCAULIFFE (1853 - 1944)
 Mary MCAULIFFE (1811 - 1898)

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Thomas MCAULIFFE (1802 - 1878)
 Florence MCAULIFFE











Margaret (MCAULIFFE)











b. abt 1811 at Freemount, Co Cork, Ireland
m. Thomas MCAULIFFE (1802 - 1878) at Ireland
d. 20 Aug 1898 at Jier, New South Wales, Australia aged 87
Near Relatives of Mary MCAULIFFE (1811 - 1898)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Father in Law Jeremiah MCAULIFFE
Mother in Law Ellen (MCAULIFFE)

Father Florence MCAULIFFE
Mother Margaret (MCAULIFFE)

Self Mary MCAULIFFE abt 1811 Freemount, Co Cork, Ireland 20 Aug 1898 Jier, New South Wales, Australia 87

Husband Thomas MCAULIFFE abt 1802 Clonfert, Co Cork, Ireland 27 Nov 1878 Jier, New South Wales, Australia 76

Daughter Ellen MCAULIFFE abt 1831 Newmarket, Co Cork, Ireland 07 Nov 1858 27
Daughter Margaret MCAULIFFE abt 1834 Newmarket, Co Cork, Ireland 22 Oct 1918 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 84
Daughter Deborah MCAULIFFE 1836 Newmarket, Co Cork, Ireland 02 Jul 1919 Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia 83
Daughter Mary MCAULIFFE 1839 Newmarket, Co Cork, Ireland
Son Flourence Joseph MCAULIFFE abt 1841 Newmarket, Co Cork, Ireland 24 Sep 1886 Cooma, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 45
Son Jeremiah MCAULIFFE abt 1844 Newmarket, Co Cork, Ireland 31 Mar 1920 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 76
Son Thomas MCAULIFFE 1847 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia 12 Sep 1925 Jeir, New South Wales, Australia 78
Daughter Bridget Mary MCAULIFFE 1849 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Daughter Honorah MCAULIFFE 1853 Yass, New South Wales, Australia Oct 1944 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 91

Son in Law Maurice SHEEHAN 1822 Co Cork, Ireland 05 Sep 1899 Hoskinstown, New South Wales, Australia 77
Son in Law William LEE abt 1811 Co Limerick, Ireland 07 Feb 1867 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 56
Son in Law Patrick Frederick LEAHY 1825 Ireland 29 Oct 1910 Gundaroo, New South Wales, Australia 85
Daughter in Law Mary Ann FLANAGAN abt 1843 Marulen, New South Wales, Australia 23 Jan 1887 Cooma, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 44
Daughter in Law Johannah LEAHY 25 Jan 1849 Gundaroo, New South Wales, Australia 27 Jan 1933 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 84
Daughter in Law Eleanor O'SULLIVAN 03 Mar 1945 Jeir, New South Wales, Australia
Son in Law John SPARROW 1847 Michelago, New South Wales, Australia 09 Aug 1903 Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia 56

Granddaughter Mary SHEEHAN 1852 Molonglo, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Thomas SHEEHAN abt 1854 Molonglo, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Catherine (Kate) Mary SHEEHAN 1857 Molonglo, New South Wales, Australia 07 May 1940 Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia 83
Grandson John SHEEHAN 1858 Molonglo, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Maurice LEE 1852 New South Wales, Australia abt 1853 1
Granddaughter Margaret LEE 1853 New South Wales, Australia 20 Nov 1935 Cooma, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 82
Grandson John Maurice LEE 1856 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 03 Jul 1917 North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 61
Granddaughter Ellen Mary LEE 1858 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Catherine LEE abt 1860 1866 6
Granddaughter Deborah Agnes LEE 1861 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Kate LEE abt 1867
Granddaughter Ellen F D MCAULIFFE 1862 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Mary MCAULIFFE 1864 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Deborah MCAULIFFE 1866 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Margaret MCAULIFFE 1868 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Kate Agnes MCAULIFFE 1870 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Thomas John MCAULIFFE 1872 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Michael Jeremiah MCAULIFFE 1874 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1928 Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia 54
Granddaughter Sarah Jane MCAULIFFE 1877 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1953 North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 76
Granddaughter Ada Josephine MCAULIFFE 1879 Cooma, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 1973 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 94
Grandson James P MCAULIFFE 1884 Cooma, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson William J MCAULIFFE 1886 Cooma, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Mary MCAULIFFE 02 Mar 1873 Gundaroo, New South Wales, Australia 1951 78
Granddaughter Honora Emily MCAULIFFE 1874 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 1954 80
Granddaughter Ada Ellen MCAULIFFE 1875 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 1951 76
Granddaughter Annie Elizabeth MCAULIFFE 06 Sep 1876 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 18 Jan 1912 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 35
Granddaughter Florence Katherine MCAULIFFE 24 Dec 1876 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 1970 94
Granddaughter Deborah Margaret MCAULIFFE 1879 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 1955 76
Grandson Thomas MCAULIFFE 1881 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 1952 71
Granddaughter Mabel MCAULIFFE 1885 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 1970 85
Granddaughter Veronica MCAULIFFE 1887 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 1969 82
Grandson Francis Jeremiah MCAULIFFE 1890 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 1947 57
Granddaughter Kathleen Agnes MCAULIFFE 02 Sep 1894 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 1980 86
Granddaughter Mary C MCAULIFFE 1887 Yass, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson John MCAULIFFE 1889 Yass, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Zeta A MCAULIFFE 1903 Yass, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Edward Desmond MCAULIFFE 1906 Yass, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Mary SPARROW 1880 Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Florence SPARROW 1881 Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Ada SPARROW 1883 Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Thomas Francis SPARROW 1885 Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Deborah Elizabeth SPARROW 1887 Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson John William SPARROW 1889 Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Leo George SPARROW 1891 Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Pauline Veronica SPARROW 1894 Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia 10 Sep 1943 Canberra, ACT, Australia 49

Events in Mary MCAULIFFE (1811 - 1898)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
Married Thomas MCAULIFFE Ireland 6
abt 1811 Mary MCAULIFFE was born Freemount, Co Cork, Ireland 6
abt 1831 20 Birth of daughter Ellen MCAULIFFE Newmarket, Co Cork, Ireland 6
abt 1834 23 Birth of daughter Margaret MCAULIFFE Newmarket, Co Cork, Ireland 6
1836 25 Birth of daughter Deborah MCAULIFFE Newmarket, Co Cork, Ireland 6
1839 28 Birth of daughter Mary MCAULIFFE Newmarket, Co Cork, Ireland 6
abt 1841 30 Birth of son Flourence Joseph MCAULIFFE Newmarket, Co Cork, Ireland 6
abt 1844 33 Birth of son Jeremiah MCAULIFFE Newmarket, Co Cork, Ireland 6
09 Feb 1845 34 Immigration Sydney, New South Wales, Australia per 'Herald' bounty immigrant 6
1847 36 Birth of son Thomas MCAULIFFE Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia 6
1849 38 Birth of daughter Bridget Mary MCAULIFFE Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia V18491773 66/1849 6
1853 42 Birth of daughter Honorah MCAULIFFE Yass, New South Wales, Australia 6
07 Nov 1858 47 Death of daughter Ellen MCAULIFFE (aged 27) 6
27 Nov 1878 67 Death of husband Thomas MCAULIFFE (aged 76) Jier, New South Wales, Australia 10611/1878 6
24 Sep 1886 75 Death of son Flourence Joseph MCAULIFFE (aged 45) Cooma, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia 11405/1886 6
20 Aug 1898 87 Mary MCAULIFFE died Jier, New South Wales, Australia 12166/1898 6
Source References:
6. Type: Book, Abbr: Queanbeyan Register, Title: Biographical register of Canberra and Queanbeyan: from the district to the Australian Capital Territory 1820-1930, Auth: Peter Proctor, Publ: The Heraldry & Genealogical Society of Canberra, Date: 2001
- Reference = 195 (Name, Notes)
- Reference = 231 (Death)
- Reference = 231 (Birth)
- Reference = 195 (Marriage)
18. Type: E-mail Message, Abbr: e-mails general pool, Title: e-mails general pool
- Reference = Deborah Fairbairn 13 Jan 2021 (Name, Notes)
- Notes: Thomas and Mary McAuliffe are my great great grandparents.

I would like to let you know that Thomas was married to Mary McAuliffe not Mary Muldoon. Thomas and Mary were cousins. Her father was Florence McAuliffe. I have correspondence from Mary's brother in Ireland from the 1860's to Thomas and Mary in Australia,

The attached wage and entitlement certificate should give you some assurance.


Our family have no idea where the Muldoon error originated but now, deep into the McAuliffe research, this seems to be one of the few places it still appears. The miss spelling of Florence is ongoing!
80. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Hall Museum, Title: Hall School Museum and Heritage Centre, Locn: https://museum.hall.act.au/
- Reference = https://museum.hall.act.au/display/1939/person/3748/mary-mcauliffe.html (Name, Notes)
- Notes: Born: 1812; Died: 1898; Married: [McAuliffe]

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Thomas and Mary McAuliffe and their six children, all born in Newmarket, Co Cork, arrived in Sydney as bounty immigrants aboard the Herald on 9 February 1845. The ship's records give the following details:

Thomas McAuliffe (Senior): Farm labourer age 43.
Native Place: Clonfert [a parish in North Co Cork]
Parents: Jeremiah and Ellen - father alive, living in Cork
State of bodily health, strength and probable usefulness: Good
Religion: RC
Read and write: both
Relatives in colony: Timothy McAuliffe, about 4yrs in colony, and Ellen Cronan, about same time.
Employer: R. Aldworth, Newmarket House.

The passenger list gives ages as follows: Thomas 43; Mary 33; Ellen 14; Margaret 11; Deborah 9; Mary 6; Flourence 4; Jeremiah 'infant'.

Mary's maiden name was also McAuliffe, and she appears to have been Thomas's cousin. She is listed on the ship's record as a dairymaid, also employed at Newmarket House. Her parents were both dead by the time she left Ireland, but her brother, also Thomas, corresponded with them from his home in Farrihy, northern Cork (Co).

On arrival, Thomas and Mary went to work for Rob Fitzgerald of Windsor, who had paid their bounty of 17 Guineas on a wage of £16 for 12 months, with rations for two. Eldest daughter Ellen was separately employed elsewhere. The family appears to have stayed in the Western Sydney area for some time; the next two children, Thomas and Bridget, were born in the Parramatta district, in 1847 and1849. The last child, Honora, was born in Yass (district) in 1853, so it can be assumed that the McAuliffes arrived here in the very early 1850s.

It is not clear precisely where Thomas and Mary lived in the district. By 1858 Thomas had purchased land near the Dungarvon Water Holes, and Mary's obituary reports she lived there for some time. Son Jeremiah was recorded after his father's death as from 'Springfield' and he then purchased part of the nearby Nanima Station, but it is not known if he inherited 'Springfield' from his father. Both Thomas' and Mary's death certificates give their place of death as Jeir, and Thomas' obituary refers to his death 'at his residence' with no further information. 'Jeir' is unlikely to refer to the property of the same name, as it was in the hands of the Johnston family throughout this period.

Thomas predeceased Mary by twenty years. On his death the Queanbeyan Age of 30 Nov 1878 noted:

'Death of Mr T. McAuliffe of Jeir.
Mr Thomas McAuliffe of Jeir, for many years a resident of the Queanbeyan district, father of Mrs. Margaret Lee and Mr. F. McAuliffe, blacksmith, died suddenly at his residence on Thursday morning last. The deceased, who was generally and deservedly respected, appeared to be in the enjoyment of good health up to the time of his death.

On Mary's death, the Goulburn Evening Penny Post of 3 Sep 1898 reported:

'The death of Mrs. McAuliffe, of Jeir, at the advanced age of 87 years, briefly noticed in your issue of Thursday last, adds another to the long list of old residents of this and the adjoining localities who have passed away within the last few years.
Before going to reside at Jeir, the deceased with her late husband, who died some few years ago, resided for several years at Dungarvon in the vicinity of Gininderra, where they were held in the highest esteem by all classes of the community. The late Mrs. McAuliffe leaves a large family of respectable married sons and daughters besides a host of grandchildren. The remains of the venerable old lady were interred in the R.C. Cemetery at Queanbeyan on Tuesday last.'

Thomas and Mary are buried at the Queanbeyan Riverside Pioneer Cemetery
Their headstone reads:

'Thomas McAuliffe
who died Nov 27 1878
aged 80 years
Requisat in pace
also
Mary McAuliffe
who died Aug 20 1898
aged 87 years
May her soul rest in peace
Amen'
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