Mary Ann (O’Grady) Land (1868 - 1948)

Born 18 May 1868 in New South Wales, Australia

Ancestors

Wife of William James Land — married 7 Jan 1885 in Queensland Australia

Descendants

Died 1 Jul 1948 at age 80 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Biography

Mary Ann O’Grady was apparently born at Cosgrove Station, near Bathurst on 18 May 1868 (but her birth surname is Grady) and passed away on 7 January 1948. It would appear she may have changed her surname due to her forebears serious brushes with the law, but it was not that much of a change it seems. She moved to Queensland to perhaps start a new life in Cunnamulla and then finally Brisbane where she rests at Toowong cemetery.

William James Land and Mary Ann O’Grady/Grady married in Queensland on Wednesday 7 January 1885. At the time of their wedding, William was not quite 24 and Mary Ann was not quite 17.

Her parents were Patrick Grady (Sunday 11 February 1844 – Monday 26 December 1881) and Eliza Badley (Monday 23 May 1842 – Monday 27 September 1880) who were married at Bathurst, NSW on Friday 29 December 1865 and had 10 children. Eliza passed away 19 days after giving birth to her youngest child, John William, at 38 years of age. By the birth of their fourth child, Julia Alice, they had moved to the Dubbo area but then seemed to move around a lot after that as some of the children were born in Young or Orange until the youngest was born in Dubbo in 1880. This is where Eliza passed away. At the time of her death, the nine children were aged between 18 days and 14 years. Sometime after Eliza’s dearth and before his own, he may have moved to Bourke, about 370 kms north-west of Dubbo and fairly close to the south west Queensland border I have not been able to determine if the children went with him. A search on Trove shows that there was a report in the Country News section of the Sydney Morning Herald and Gazette dated Tuesday 27 December 1881 that somewhere in Bourke, NSW, Patrick (1844) was knocked down by a man named Hunt and suffered concussion of the brain from which he was not expected to recover. Not a nice way for a short life to end – the day after Xmas Day and all. At least the assailant, Charles Hunt, was arrested and charged with manslaughter on or about Wednesday 4 January 1882. I have not been able to find the outcome of the charges

Sources

• Register Bdm Online QLD 1885/C/376 Marriage
• Queensland death Registration #1948/B/17401
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/220259701/mary-ann-land

Ancestry.com searches on Mary' and her ancestors - Patrick Grady (3 of them) and William McGuirk to ascertain the details of her siblings and parents. Trove searches on her father's death