Maria Elizabeth Armstrong

  Noted events in her life were:

• connection. ⁵²⁸ The connection between Shellie Cummings & Les is as follows:
Shellie Cummings. . .
Is linked in some way to . . .
Margaret Gow (c1788) who married Adam Armstrong (1788)
They had Adam Armstrong (1820)
He had Maria Armstrong (1857) who married Horace Stirling (1855)
They had Horace Elton (1875) (I don't know the story of how this surname got changed)
He had Raymond Elton (1921) who married Joyce Dowling (1923)
Her father was Thomas Downing (1898) who married Florence Henry (1902)
Her father was George Henry (1866) who married Florence Cross (1872)
Her father was Robert Cross (1843) & her mother was Mary Adamson (c182) but Robert also married Jane Jackson (c1780)
They had William Cross (1807) who married Mary Ratcliffe (c1818)
They had Ann Cross (1842) who married Alexander Matheson (c1837)
They had Annabella Matheson (1870) who married Frederick Cross (1861)
His father was Ralph Cross (1810)
His father was Robert Cross (1776) & he also had Jane Cross (1803) who married Thomas Millington (1807)
They had Mary Millington (1842) who married William Hinton (1842)
They had William Hinton (1872) who married Emily Keighran (1881)
(There is another link to the Keighran's through one of their children that I haven't listed here)
Her father was William Keighran (1854)
His father was James Keighran (1808) & he also had John Keighran (1845)
He had Joseph Keighran (1879)
He had Leslie William Keighran (1904)
He had Mary Keighran (1927) who married Mervyn Collins (1924)
They had Les Collins (1950) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Maria married Horace George Stirling, son of Edmund John Stirling and Ethel Coward Read. (Horace George Stirling was born in 1855 in Western Australia.)