Johanna Elizabeth O'Sullivan
Cause of her death was Cerebral Haemmorhage/Cardiac Failure. Another name for Johanna was Elizabeth Johanna Monaghan. General Notes: Johanna obviously established a relationship and built a life with James Monahan by 1882/3 after her husband, William Boyd, was sent to prison in 1881. (Refer to his page for details of the circumstances). It is not known whether something specific occurred regarding Boyd to facilitate her eventual marriage to Monaghan in 1924, when she was almost 70 years old. Perhaps Johanna had to wait until Boyd died before she could formally marry James Monaghan. Certainly, Johanna is recorded as a "Widow" on her marriage certificate, and her name as Johanna Boyd. However no evidence of Boyd's death has yet been found, and it may be that Johanna proceeded on the basis that Boyd might be, or probably was dead, and perhaps found a sympathetic ear from the family priest, Rev. Gahan who married them. Indeed, a William Boyd did die in Sydney one week before her wedding to James. This was definitely not the same William Boyd (see notes under his entry) but perhaps a newspaper death notice about William Boyd's death was sufficient "evidence" for the Rev. Gahan? Their wedding was a Roman Catholic ceremony held in the Church at Coolamon. Witnesses were Mary Magdalene O'Mara and Mary La Merci Bullock. Perhaps underscoring the clandestine nature of the ceremony, these witnesses were both Josephite nuns, rather than family or friends, and the ceremony was performed on a Wednesday. (Mary Magdalene O'Mara eventually became the Mother-General of the Sisters of St. Joseph a position she held when she died in 1951). Johanna married William Boyd, son of William Boyd and Wilhelmina Loftus, on 29 Apr 1877 in St Stephens Church, Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia. (William Boyd was born circa 1851 in Kilkenny, Ireland and died prob 1888 in Sydney Hospital,Sydney,New South Wales,Australia.) Marriage Notes: It was a Church of England ceremony. One of the Witnesses was William Sullivan, probably the Bride's brother. The second witness name is indecipherable. Johanna next married James Joseph Monaghan, son of Edward Monaghan and Mary McGrath, on 27 Feb 1924 in Coolamon, New South Wales, Australia. (James Joseph Monaghan was born in 1848 in Enniskillen, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, died on 14 Sep 1932 in Wallace St, Coolamon, New South Wales, Australia and was buried on 16 Sep 1932 in Coolamon Cemetery, Coolamon, New South Wales, Australia.). The cause of his death was Broncho-pneumonia 12 days/ Toxaemia & Myocarditis 4 days. |
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