Mary (Oats) Murrish (1833 - 1895)

Born 1833 in St Just, Cornwall, England

Wife of Nicholas Thomas Murrish — married 21 Feb 1852 in Saint Just In Penwith, Cornwall, England

Died 16 Sep 1895 at about age 62 in Thames, Waikato, New Zealand

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Biography

Mary was born in 1833 in Cornwall.

She became a dressmaker, and in 1852 she married Nicholas Murrish. They had two children, and then sailed to Australia, where two more children were born.

Mary and the children returned to Cornwall and appear on the England Census of 1871 (her being the head of household and described as a grocer and draper) before sailing to New Zealand on the Bebington in 1876 to join her husband who was now mining in Thames.

She passed away in 1895 in Thames, New Zealand, and was buried in Shortland Cemetery in plot 3PUBL-PLOT-1063.

Sources

• Passenger List 1876 - "New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Passenger Lists, 1839-1973," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSTH-S38 : 8 August 2017), Mary Murrish, 15 Jul 1876; citing ship Bebington, Archives New Zealand, Wellington; FHL microfilm .
• Find A Grave: Memorial #175606069