Mary (Gorman) McPhee (1848 - 1910)

Born 1848 in Campbells River NSW

Ancestors

Wife of Norman McPhee — married 1876 in Menindee, NSW

Died 1910 at about age 62 in Bourke, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Mary (Gorman) McPhee was born in the Colony of New South Wales (1788-1900)

Mary was born in 1848 at Campbells River. Mary, was 22yrs old when her mother died, her youngest of 11 siblings, Joseph Michael, was 8 months old.

Mary married Norman McPhee in Menindie district (NSW) in 1876/3278. They had eight children:

-MCPHEE SARAH HELEN 8959/1877 BOURKE

- MCPHEE MARY MARGARET 10301/1879 BOURKE

- MCPHEE NORMAN 10939/1880 BOURKE

- MCPHEE PATRICK J D 12466/1882 BOURKE

- MCPHEE JOHN M J 15025/1884 BOURKE

- MCPHEE KATE E 15924/1886 DUBBO

- MCPHEE PATRICK N 17032/1888 BOURKE

- MCPHEE DONALD 12256/1890 DUBBO

Two Norman McPhees are listed in 1900 at Ford's Bridge, Bourke in Yewens Directory Landholders New South Wales , presumably Mary's husband and son. Mary and Norman ran the Salmon Ford Hotel at Ford's Bridge for 20 or 29 years. ^[1] According to her DC this Mary was born 1843, DC1910/714, only three children survived her.

In 1892 her sister Ellen died in the Tarana railway accident. This article confirms Mary (Gorman) McPhee as the daughter of James and Ellen.

Mary's son Norman represented his union at the funeral of HENRY LAWSON Death of Australia's National Singer and Tale-Teller, 1922

Research Notes

--A different Mary Gorman was born in Maitland 1848, to Patrick and Anne

--Two Mary Gormans were born in NSW in 1842, none recorded in 1843

Sources

1. ↑ Western Herald 6 March 1910 'Local and General' Trove www.trove.nla.gov.au

• NSW BDM V1848771 66
• NSW BDM DC 714/1910
• Western Herald (Bourke, NSW : 1887 - 1970) Saturday 7 May 1892 p 2 Trove www.trove.nla.gov.au
• The Australian Worker (Sydney, NSW : 1913 - 1950) Wednesday 6 September 1922 p 9 Trove www.trove.nla.gov.au