Overin McCrea (1855 - 1855)

Born 22 Apr 1855 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ancestors

Died 9 Aug 1855 at age 0 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Overin McCrea has Scottish Ancestors.

Biography

Overin McCrea was born on the 22nd April 1855, the only son (and 4th child) of James and Elizabeth Jennings McCrea née Taylor. ^[1]

He was Christened on the 12th June 1855 in the Parish of St Andrew Scots Church, Sydney, New South Wales.^[2]

Overin McCrea died young.

Overin McCrea passed away on the 9th August 1855, aged 13 weeks*. (The NSW BDM has his death registered as Mc Crae, rather than McCrea, first name Oberon, not Overin.)^[3]

Overin dates

He was buried in the Presbyterian section of the Devonshire Street Cemetery, New South Wales, on or after the 9th August 1855. The cemetery records appear to show his name as Oberon (as with the BDM registration); and his birth as being on the 10th May 1855,^[4] but the church registry for Christening clearly states the 22nd April. ^[5]
Update 20190517: Australian Cemeteries Index has updated the name to Overin, instead of Oberon, and also updated the birth date.

* 13 weeks is only correct if the cemetery record is accurate and the church registry inaccurate. That's a difference of 2 weeks and 4 days.

Overin name

Name
Since we first discovered this child was born (Mother originally thought her great-grandmother was an only child), my mother and I debated frequently on what the first name actually was. She favoured a name starting with "C", because she claimed it more closely resembled a C than an O. I theorised Corin, Colin, Cowen, Cowin, but never truly believed it was a C name.
I did a comparison with other names written by the same hand and can only see it as an O, but exactly what I have no idea. Mel P 03:54, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

Sources

1. ↑ A copy of the relevant page of the church register is in the possession of Melanie Paul
2. ↑ NSW BDM Births Registration details: 66/1855 V185566 53 a copy of the relevant page of the church register is in the possession of Melanie Paul
3. ↑ NSW BDM Deaths Registration details: 67/1855 V185567 107 MC CRAE OBERON 67/1855 V185567 107 INFANT
4. ↑ Australian Cemeteries Index id=15631438 (see below).
5. ↑ A copy of the relevant page of the church register is in the possession of Melanie Paul

• Family records and birth, marriage, death certificates or certified copies, journal entries, letters, held by family members.

• A number of printed off copies of certificates were obtained (paid for) from the State Library of Queensland (taken from a microfiche or microfilm image of the actual documents). These were originally in the possession of Ailsa Williamson Paul and passed to her daughter Melanie Paul prior to Ailsa's death in 2004. Scans, or partial scans, of these will be available as added.

• austcemindex.com id=15631437 entry: