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Family: William Donnelly, Civil Engineer and surveyor in Kyneton, Victoria and Rockhampton, Queensland, committed suicide / Rosannah (Rose) Galbraith, Hotelier in Victoria, & on the Otago Goldfields (F16)

• Father | Male William Donnelly, Civil Engineer and surveyor in Kyneton, Victoria and Rockhampton, Queensland, committed suicide

  
  

  Born	c May 1827	Ballybricken, Co Limerick, Ireland
  Christened	2 Jun 1827	Ballybricken and Bohermore, Co. Limerick, Ireland
  Died	25 Dec 1865	Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
  Buried	26 Dec 1865	South Rockhampton Cemetery, Allenstown, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
  Married	6 Nov 1859	St Francis RC Church, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  Father	John Donnelly, Slater and tenant farmer in Ballybricken South, Co. Limerick, Ireland | F20 Group Sheet
  Mother	Mary Herbert, from Bruff, Co. Limerick | F20 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Rosannah (Rose) Galbraith, Hotelier in Victoria, & on the Otago Goldfields

  
  

  Born	c 1827	Ballinasloe, Galway, Ireland
  Died	29 Sep 1868	Dunstan Hospital, Clyde, Central Otago, New Zealand
  Buried		Clyde Cemetery, Central Otago, New Zealand
  Other Spouse	James Johnson Belliss, accidentally killed by a falling branch while riding | F17
  Married	25 Oct 1854	St Francis RC Church, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  Father	John Galbraith, Stockman in Victoria, Australia | F18 Group Sheet
  Mother	Mary Adams, (likely from Co. Galway and nothing known other than her name) | F18 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Male William Henry Donnelly, died in infancy

  
  

  Born	28 May 1860	Baynton Street (likely the family was living in the Railway Hotel in Baynton Street), Kyneton, Victoria, Australia
  Died	5 Oct 1860	Kyneton, Victoria, Australia
  Buried	6 Oct 1860	Kyneton Cemetery, Victoria, Australia

  
  

  Child 2 | Female + Alice May (May) Donnelly, Arrived in Otago in 1866-7 as a child

  
  

  Born	5 Nov 1862	Carlsruhe (near Kyneton), Macedon Ranges, Victoria, Australia
  Died	3 Jun 1937	4 East Avenue, St Kilda, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
  Buried	5 Jun 1937	Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
  Spouse	Alexander (Alex) Donald, Farmer at Omimi, Otago | F8
  Married	25 Oct 1882	in the home of Mr Charles Hammond, Merton, Otago, New Zealand

  
  

• Notes

  Married: Marriage certificate: Marriages solemnized in the District of Melbourne. Married 6th Nov 1859 at church of St Francis, Melbourne. William Donnelly, bachelor, birth place Co Limerick, Ireland, surveyor, age 28, residence Kyneton, father John Donnelly, builder, mother Mary Herbert. Rosannah Belliss, widow since 1856 [sic], 2 children living and 0 dead from former marriage, born Co Galway, Ireland, Hotel keeper, age 25, residence Kyneton, father John Galbraith, farmer, mother Mary Adams. I do hereby certify that I am a member of the R. Catholic Church (signed) William Donnelly. Married in the church of St Francis, Melbourne. The marriage was solemnized between us (signed) William Donnelly, (signed) Rosannah Galbraith, according to the rites of the R. Catholic Church before me Patrick Madden, officiating minister, in the presence of us (signed) Timothy McCarthy, (signed) Mary Ryan.

  
  

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