Jane Elizabeth Curtis ⁴⁵⁵

  Research Notes:

Cheryl Sciberras notes:
CONNOR / O'CONNOR FAMILY IN AUSTRALIA

There is a book entitled "Probably Usefulness" which was compiled by Sister Rita King and the O'Connor clan form part of this history.
The family dropped the O in their name because of the persecution of Catholics in Ireland and resumed the O again later in Australia. It is difficult to follow the generations as well, because of the repeated given names.
Basic information
Moses Connor and John Connor came to Australia around 1830. John left his wife and child behind as he fled the country rather than suffer any further persecutions at the hands of the British.
They worked in Sydney then moved north to the Morpeth / Dungog area where they both gained employment.
Moses Connor married Anne Farrel at Glennie's Creek in 1840 and had Mary Anne born 21/3/41, John born April 1834 and Michael 22/6/45. They had three more children who died due to poor conditions
John and Moses moved north to Ipswich to work in the coal industry in Moreton Bay. John met and married Mary Murphy, an Irish governess. and married 15/8/1854 in Ipswich
The Connor men could not settle and heard of a gold strike at Rocky River (Uralla) and took some months to cover the nearly 500 kms where they set up their claim and staked their land. As the gold discoveries declined, the moved into logging and shearing sheep.
My side of the Connors / O'Connors
Moses Connor had a son John Connor who worked at the "Laura" Sheep station near Bundarra.
He married Jane Elizabeth Curtis on 9/3/ 1864. Jane (born 8/11/1844) was a midwife and served the community as needed.
They had 9 children - Mary Anne Aug 1866, Jane October 1868, Elizabeth 30 August 1870, Michael Ernest October 1872, Moses December 1874, Ellen Caroline 11 Aug 18876, John 14 Feb 1879, Anastasia 7 October 1880 who died before her first birthday, and Florence Kate 6 June 1883.
The O was restored about this time and they became O'Connor
John O'Connor (born 14/2/79) married Mary Emma Fishlock (b 21/3/1882) on 24 April 1904 in Bundarra. They had 10 children
1.Eileen Mary b 23 July 1904 married John Carey 24 June 1933 and had three children (John who became a priest - currently in a nursing home in Glen Innes; David who lives in Armidale with his wife Judy; and Barbara who married Don Hewitt and currently lives in Armidale - David and Barbara each had several children who still live in the area)
2.Dennis John 24/12/1905 married Lynda Melville
3.Alexander Michael 4/10/1907 married Jean (?)
4.Ernest Moses 18/5/10 married Thelma Jean Low
5.Alma Jane (my grandmother) 8/8/12 married Henry Turner and had two daughters, Eileen Mary b 16/3/31 and Muriel Joan who died as a child. Alma married several times but had no further children. Eileen married Richard Bertie Heskett and had one child, Cheryl b 29/1/1953. I married Gaetano Sciberras born 4/10/1949 on 26 June 1976 and had two children - Amanda Jane b 19/10/78 and Matthew Joseph 2/9/81.
6.Maurice Leonard 1/12/14 married Mary Summers
7.John Henry (called Jack) married Edith Daniels
8.Mary Florence 24/7/19 married Jack Bradshaw
9.Shirley Leslie (called Blue because of his red hair) 21/7/21 married Ethel Parkes and had 2 children, Patrick (lives in Maclean) and Christine (Brisbane I think)

Jane married John O'Connor, son of Moses Connor and Anne Farrell, on 15 Aug 1854 in Ipswich, Queensland Australia.⁴⁵⁵ (John O'Connor was born in Apr 1843 in Glennie's Creek, near Singleton, NSW Australia ⁴⁵⁵ and died on 8 Jul 1884 in Bundarra, near Armidale, NSW Australia ¹¹¹⁷.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• alt marriage, 9 Mar 1864, Welling Grove, NSW Australia. ¹⁴⁶²