Descendants of William O’Hara

        His father Samuel died before 1864 and William followed him as tenant of the farms numbered 7 & 8 situated in Greaghadossan townland, Killinkere parish, owned by Lord Farnham. In original handwritten copies of the 1856/57 Griffith Valuation of Ireland, presumed to have been drafts subject to correction by the landlord, William was listed as the tenant of the farms, however in the printed published valuations it was was changed to his father who was still alive.
        William was the last of eight known Samuel O’Hara and Elizabeth Jordan children to emigrate to New South Wales. His emigration was sponsored by a brother John O’Hara who with his family had emigrated seventeen years earlier. William arrived in Sydney with his wife and five children on the Peterborough on 26th August 1880. He and Isabella were listed in the 1909 Commonwealth Electoral roll, in the Marrickville subdivision of the Lang electorate living at 74, Silver St. with his occupation given as "independant means". His death registration gave his last occupation as "dairyman", which is presumed to have meant dairy farmer, and it stated he was late of 116, Silver St., Marrickville. It is said he farmed at Glen Innes ⁵ however he was not listed in the Glen Innes subdivision of the New England electorate in the first Commonwealth electoral roll for 1903 through to 1908.

Children of William O’Hara and Isabella Watson were:
      1.   i.      Eliza O’Hara
      2.   ii.     Unknown daughter
      3.   iii.    Unknown daughter
      4.   iv.    Mary O’Hara
      5.   v.     Samuel O’Hara
      6.   vi.    John William O’Hara
      7.   vii.   Isabella Jane O’Hara

1.  Eliza O’Hara,  b. ca.1858 ⁶, d. 1903 ²² reg. Sydney. She married in 1888 ²³ reg. Sydney, NSW, Thomas Henry Waller, widower husband of her first cousin Elizabeth O'Hara who died 7 Apr 1887, and daughter of her uncle John O'Hara ⁵⁷. No issue of the marriage are NSW BDM indexed. After her death Thomas Henry Waller married Mabel Jackman ⁵⁷.

2.  Unknown daughter ^{7, 8}

3.  Unknown daughter ^{7, 8}

4.  Mary O’Hara, b. ca.1863 ⁵, d. 1899 ²⁴ reg. Glen Innes, NSW.

5.  Samuel O’Hara, b. 23 Oct 1864 ⁸ at Virginia, Co. Cavan, Ireland; died 17 Jan 1922 ^{9, 51} Sydney, NSW, Australia. He married 9 Feb 1887 ¹³ in the Congregational Church, Devonshire Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Emma Marchant, b. 1868 ⁴⁹ Penrith, NSW; died 1937 ⁵⁰ reg. Manly, daughter of Thomas R Marchant and Mary Ann Maulsbury ¹³.

Children of Samuel O'Hara and Emma Marchant were:
+    8.   i.    Elsie M O'Hara
+    9.  ii.    Amy I O'Hara
+  10.  iii.   Elizabeth O'Hara
     11.  iv.  Eva E O'Hara
     12.  v.   William Samuel John O'Hara

7.  Isabella Jane O’Hara,  b. 24 Nov 1873 ⁵ Greaghadossan, Co. Cavan, Ireland; died 1960 ⁵³ reg. Marrickville, NSW. She married on 29 Oct. 1897 ^{5, 26} reg. Marrickville, James Percival Young, b. 1875 ⁵ Riverina District, NSW, Australia; possibly the James Percival Young who died 1963 ⁵⁴ reg. Armidale, NSW or the James Edward P Young who died 1938 ⁵⁵ reg. Petersham, NSW.

Children of Isabella Jane O’Hara and James Percival Young were ^{5, 12}
    13.   i.     Ernest Arthur Young
    14.   ii.    James W. A. Young
+  15.  iii.    Lily Ellen Young
+  16.  iv.    Dorothy Isabel Murial Young
+  17.   v.    Madeline Edna Young
    18.  vi.    Reginald P. Young

8.   Elsie M. O'Hara, b. 1887 ²⁷ reg. Petersham, NSW. Likely the Elsie May Dunn who died 1965 ⁵² reg. Parramatta. She married H. Dunn ⁹.  No O'Hara-Dunn marriages are indexed in NSW or QLD 1880-1922. If not for the evidence her father's 1922 obituary it would have seemed likely she had been the Elsie O'Hara who married Edward Byers in 1906 ³⁰ reg. Sydney and had four children  viz. - Edward S. R. Byers (m. Thelma May Curran) ^{34, 47},  Walter H. Byers ³⁵, Gladys M. Byers ³⁶, Bertha E. Byers ³⁷.

9.  Amy I. O'Hara, b. 1889 ²⁸ reg. Canterbury, NSW. She married 1913 ³¹ reg. Newtown, NSW, William G. Searle.

Children of Amy I. O'Hara and William G. Searle  were:
    19.      William G. Searle

Children of Elizabeth O'Hara and Thomas E Westlake were:
    20.      Roy T Westlake

12.  William Samuel John O'Hara, b. 1907 ⁴⁵ reg. Redfern, NSW; d. 1962 ⁴⁸ reg. North Sydney. He married 1929 ⁴⁶ reg. Manly, Ivy C Henley.

13.  Ernest Arthur Young, b. 1898 ^{5, 16} Marrickville, NSW, Australia; d. before 1994 ¹⁰. By occupation he was a storeman and did not marry ⁵.

14.  James W. A. Young, b. 1900 ^{5, 41} Marrickville, NSW; d. 1973 ^{5, 17} at Newtown, NSW.  He did not marry ⁵.

15.  Lily Ellen Young, b. 9 Feb 1903 ^{5, 42} Marrickville,  NSW; d. 21 Nov 1993¹⁰.  She married 1923 ^{5, 18} Arthur "Jim" Fisher.

Children of Lily Ellen Young and Arthur Fisher were:
    21.      Norman Fisher

Children of Dorothy Isabel Murial Young and Arthur Clifford Tyler were:
    22.   i.     Ronald William Tyler
    23.   ii.    Stanley Robert Tyler

Children of Madelaine Edna Young and William James David Moscrop were:
    24.   i.     Joan Moscrop
    25.   ii.    Barbara Moscrop
    26.   iii.   Kenneth Moscrap

19.  William G. Searle, b. 1918 ³⁸reg. Newtown, NSW.

20.  Roy T Westlake, b. 1913 ³⁹ reg. Newtown, NSW.

21.  Norman Fisher.  He  married and had a son ⁵.

22.  Ronald William Tyler, b. Punchbowl, NSW, Australia. He married (1) on 31 Oct 1961 ⁵ at Pendhurst, NSW , Reginia "Jean" Mary Oliver, b. Braidwood, NSW; d. 5 Oct 1977 ¹¹. He marrried (2)  on 6 Jan 1979 ⁵ at Oatley, NSW, Alma Pearl Surlus.

Child of Ronald William Tyler and Alma Pearl Surlus was: ⁵
    27.   Alan Tyler

Children of Stanley Robert Tyler and Patricia Ann Donovan were:
+  28.   i.    Jeniffer Ann Tyler
+  29.   ii.   Gregory John Tyler
+  30.   iii.  Scott Matthew Tyler
+  31.   iv.  Brooke Melissa Tyler
+  32.   v.   Sean Robert Tyler

25.  Barbara Moscrop

26.  Kenneth Moscrap

27.  Alan Tyler,  b. Sydney, NSW. He and his spouse and children moved to Queensland 1980s ⁵.

28.  Jeniffer Ann Tyler, b. Waverely, NSW, Australia. She married on 5 Apr 1975 ⁵ at Liverool, NSW, Philip Wilkinson.

Children of Jeniffer Ann Tyler and Philip Wilkinson were:
     33.   i.     Ben Wilkinson
     34.   ii.    Nathan Wilkinson
     35.   iii.   Ryan Wilkinson

Children of Gregory John Tyler and Sharon Marie Spence were:
     36.   i.     Luke Tyler
     37.   ii.    Lucie Marie Tyler
     38.   iii.   Sarah Elisabeth Tyler
     39.   iv.   James Gregory Tyler
     40.   v.    Emily Grace Tyler

Children of Scott Matthew Tyler and Lee Price were:
    41.   i.     Joel Stanley Tyler
    42.   ii.    Mitchell Scott Tyler
    43.   iii.   Matthew Noel Tyler

Children of Brooke Melissa Tyler and Glen Francis O'Neill were:
    44.   i.     Laura Patricia O'Neill
    45.   ii.    Lachlan Henry O'Neill

Children of Sean Robert Tyler and Charmaine Netta Burns were:
    46.   i.     Harrison Sean Tyler
    47.   ii.    Elise Annette Tyler

33.  Ben Wilkinson, b. NSW, Australia

Children of Ben Wilkinson:
    48.      Elka Wilkinson.

35.  Ryan Wilkinson, b. Penrith, NSW, Australia. He married, Rebecca Gaudiosi.

Children of Ryan Wilkinson and Rebecca Gaudiosi were:
    49.      Natalie Rebekah Wilkinson

48.   Elka Wilkinson.
49.   Natalie Rebekah Wilkinson, b. Penrith, NSW.

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SOURCES:
¹  Date advised in letter dated 20 Apr. 1999 from Gwenda Anderson of Queensland to the compiler - the data was extracted from copies of the actual baptism and marriage records in her possession that were obtained by William O’Hara from Ireland before his 1911 death and thus before the actual records were destroyed in the 1922 Records Office explosion and fire in Dublin.
²  NSW Death Cert. #1912-002302 - copy provided courtesy of Archie Elliott of Boston, USA.  Society of Australian Genealogists (SAG) Rookwood Cemetery headstone transcriptions have no headstone listed for William or Isabella O'Hara.
³  NSW Death Certificate #1913-005724 - copy provided courtesy of Archie Elliott. Has Isabella's age as given correctly by informant son Samuel as 77 yrs - i.e. born 1836 - however age of 16 yrs when she married was at least 5 years understated.
⁴  Isabella's 1836 Ballyjamesduff baptism stated her mother's name was Nancy Lockhead - her 1913 death record stated it as Nancy Lockheed.
⁵  Young family genealogy dated 14 Aug 2007 - compiled and provided by Stan Tyler of Mt. Prichard, NSW.
⁶   Peterborough immigration records listing of ages of the five children - Eliza 22, Mary 17, Samuel 15, John 11, Isabella 6.
⁷  William O’Hara's 1911 death certificate stated 4 female children pre-deceased him. As two of the three daughters who arrived in 1880 were deceased, it is implied two others were born in Ireland and did not accompany their parents and the others to Australia in 1880 on the Peterborough, either because they had already married there, died before departure, or for some other reason.
⁸  The two children birth dates are from LDS Church's British Vitals CD-ROM - presumably extracted for the CD from the civil registration records that only commenced in 1864. The CD also listed that a William O’Hara & "Elizabeth" Watson had a daughter Margaret Anne born 19 Sep 1871. All three are listed as Bailieborough, which was the nearest town to Greaghadossan townland, so would have been the place of the birth registrations. It is possible Margaret Anne's mother's name was recorded in error as Elizabeth instead of Isabella. If so Margaret Anne O’Hara would be one of the two unaccounted for daughters not in the family group when it arrived in Australia in 1880.
⁹   Deaths  - Sydney Morning Herald, Wed. 18 Jan 1922,  O'HARA - January, 17, 1922 at Sydney Hospital, Samuel O'Hara (late of Tooth's Brewery) and beloved husband of Emma O'Hara, of 46, Burren St, Erskinville, aged 56 years. Newcastle paper please copy. Funerals - O'HARA - The relatives and Friends of Mrs. Emma O'Hara and Mr. and Mrs. W. Searle, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Westlake, Mr. and Mrs. H. Dunn, Mr. and Mrs. H. Woodcock, and master Willie O'Hara are invited to attend the Funeral of her late dearly-beloved husband and their father Samuel O'Hara (late of Tooth's Brewery); to leave his residence 46, Burren St., Erskinville, THIS (Wednesday) afternoon, at 1.30 o'clock for Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood, via Newtown Station - F.W. Hartley, Newtown and Marrickville.
¹⁰  Deaths - Sydney Morning Herald, 25 Nov 1993, -  FISHER, Lily Ellen-  November 21, 1993, formerly of Mortdale and late of Liverpool, widow of Arthur "Jim", loved mother of Norman and greatly loved aunt of Ron and Alma, Joan, Barabara and Ken, Stan and Pat and their families, loved sister of Dorothy, Ernest, James and Reginald (all deceased) and Madelaine. Will never be forgotten by her nephews and neices. A great lady. Aged 90. Funerals - for burial 25 November 1993 in Forest Lawn, Cem., Camden Valley Way, Leppington - arrangements by a Liverpool funeral director.
¹¹  Deaths - Sydney Morning Herald, 7 Oct 1977, - Regina Mary Tyler - October 5, 1977 (suddenly) at Gundillion via Braidwood, late of 24 Elm St., Lugano, dearly loved wife of Ron, loving daughter of Julia Ann Oliver (deceased), Loved neice of Tom Oliver, of Gundillion, aged 47 years. Funeral - Monday 10th Oct. for internment in Emu Flats Cemetery.
¹²  A Young family genealogy compilation dated 14 Aug 2007 listed "Reginald l. E. Young born 1895 who did not marry" as first born of seven Isabella Jane O'Hara and James Percival Young children. However he has been excluded as their child of from this compilation for the reason that there is no evidence in the NSW BDM Indexes of a birth registration under either the O'Hara or Young surname betwen 1894-1896 of a child with the given name of Reginald and no death of a Reginald I. E. Young having either parent with those names is indexed from 1895 to the current death index termination year of 1976. Also sister Lily Fisher's 1993 obituary did not name him with the other five as a sibling living or deceased - see source citation ¹⁰above. Even though purported born 2 years before the mother married, it would be expected if he had been Isabella's child, that as was usual practice in such a circumstance there would have been a birth registration under her O'Hara surname. It also seems most unlikely she would have had two children named Reginald unless the first born died before the second was born - in this case before known child Reginald P. was born in 1911. If the purported child Reginald I. E. was alive when Isabella Jane died in 1960 he should have been listed as such in her death registration. Also if Isabella was the informant for the birth registration of her 1898 born child Ernest Arthur's that registration should have her previous issue given as - "1 male". None of these records have been consulted by this compiler. Pending some acceptable evidence becoming available, such as for example a unambiguous birth notation in a family bible, Reginald I.E. has been excluded. He may well have been an adopted child, a brother or a nephew of James Percival etc., who lived with the family but with his actual history unknown of today and just assumed.
¹³  NSW Marriage Certificate #1887-000295 - copy provided courtesy of Archie Elliott of the USA.
¹⁴  NSW BDM Indexes #1912-2302
¹⁵  Ibid #1902-23553
¹⁶  Ibid #1898-13560
¹⁷  Ibid #1973-51380
¹⁸  Ibid #1923-14983
¹⁹  Ibid #1905-35083
²⁰  Ibid #1925-5946
²¹  Ibid #1911-42295
²²  Ibid #1903-12660 (parents William & Bella)
²³  Ibid #1888-608
²⁴  Ibid #1899-5539 (parents William & Bella)
²⁵  Ibid #1919-5845 (parents William & Isabella)
²⁶  Ibid #1897-7932
²⁷  Ibid #1887-6881
²⁸  Ibid #1889-6234
²⁹  Ibid #1891-38799
³⁰  Ibid #1906-8884
³¹  Ibid #1913-2456
³²  Ibid #1912-2730
³³  Ibid #1941-23348
³⁴  Ibid #1908-7754 reg. Redfern, NSW
³⁵  Ibid #1910-8227 reg. Redferm, NSW
³⁶  Ibid #1912-36473 reg. Waterloo, NSW
³⁷  Ibid #1918-1256 reg. Newtown, NSW
³⁸  Ibid #1918-957
³⁹  Ibid #1913-8166
⁴⁰  Ibid #1934-3312
⁴¹  Ibid #1900-32946
⁴²  Ibid #1903-4649
⁴³  Ibid #1908-37476
⁴⁴  Ibid #1900-34888
⁴⁵  Ibid #1907-17480
⁴⁶  Ibid #1929-8360
⁴⁷  Ibid #1937-285
⁴⁸  Ibid #1962-25396 (parents Willlian John & Emma)
⁴⁹  Ibid #1868-15158
⁵⁰  Ibid #1937-25230
⁵¹  Ibid #1922-54 (BDM indexed with no mother's name and his father incorrectly given as Samuel J.)
⁵²  Ibid #1965-36299
⁵³  Ibid #1960-11219 (parents William & Isabella)
⁵⁴  Ibid #1963-34485 (parents James & Helena)
⁵⁵  Ibid #1938-14885 (parents James & Emma)
⁵⁶  Ibid #1919-8081
⁵⁷  Advised by Gwenda Andersen of Caloundra, Qld. by letter dated 20 Apr 1999