Born in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Vallance
and Margaret Magill (Dunscomb) Vallance
Sister of
John Dunscomb Vallance, William Henry Vallance, George Dunscomb Vallance, Margaret Ellen Vallance, Christopher Bridge Vallance, Margaret Jane Vallance, Frederick Julian Vallance, Miriam Howard Vallance, Miriam Lois (Vallance) Barker and Rhoda Ellen Vallance
Wife of
James O'Shea
— married
25 Feb 1868 in Wellington, New Zealand
Mother of
Robert O'Shea and Marie Marguerita (O'Shea) Gray
Died
at about age 66
in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Profile last modified
| Created 18 Sep 2013
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Biography
This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.
User ID
- User ID: 22C97E5EC52ED511A7174445535400008EC4
Note
- Note: I don't know if Mary is at all related, but her second Christian name (Dunscombe) leads me to believe that she is Miriam's sister (it being her mother's maiden name). I found reference to her marriage on the Family Search internet site (http://www.familysearch.org)
- MARRIAGE: Index Mary E D Vallance, 1868, folio 937
Data Changed
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- Date: 18 May 2001
- Time: 20:33:52
- Date: 18 May 2001
Prior to import, this record was last changed 20:33:52 18 May 2001.
Mary was born in 1831. She was the daughter of William Vallance and Margaret Dunscomb. She passed away in 1898.
Sources
https://dunscombe.info/p202.htm#i6556
Acknowledgments
Thank you to John ten Velde for creating WikiTree profile Vallance-57 through the import of vickisfamily.ged on Sep 15, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by John and others.
- Anglican Church of St. John the Baptist (Newfoundland Grand Banks Genealogy), online http://ngb.chebucto.org/Vstats/vs-26b-ang-bap-7-stj.shtml, Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist records.
- Correspondence from Lindsay McLean, 2018.
- Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
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~1.56%
Edward Dunscombe
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M721288 [compare], yourDNAportal EDWa43071db
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch M721288 [compare], yourDNAportal EDWa43071db, Ancestry member Dunsky
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Miriam Lois (Vallance) Barker was indeed a younger sister of Mary Eliza Dunscomb O'Shea; Miriam followed Mary to New Zealand, arriving in Wellington on 7 January, 1874 (refer 'Note' above, and Miriam Lois (Vallance) Barker profile.
Comment entered by Lindsay McLean; Great Grandson of Miriam Lois (Vallance) Barker.