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• HOME The search for family matriarch Mary Anne Barry. The mystery of the shepherds of the South Burnett. A Family Tree of ancestors, extended family and relatives continually updated as details come to hand.
  
  
• FAMILY Biographies of James McNamara, wife Mary Ann Fuller and their 12 children.
  
  
• HISTORY The McNamara and Fuller families met at Jondaryan Woolshed. They worked with sheep and cattle all their lives while the Fullers were one of the many freight carriers of the South Burnett. Fred Fuller, a likeable larrikin, died after falling from a wagon in Maryborough (Qld) in 1886. A full transcript of the coronial inquest, newspaper articles of the day and the story of the remarkable Police Magistrate Henry Reginald Buttanshaw.
  
  
• BIRTH Family birth certificates bear the names of some of the Colony's most influential pastoral holdings. Barambah, Burrandowan, Auburn, Mondure and Tarong.

• McNAMARA FAMILY (Colonial Birth Certificates)
  • Francis John (1868)     
  • James Joseph (1869)  
  • Sabina (1873)
  • Frank (1876)
  • William (1878)
  • Edward (1881)
  • John (Twin 1883)
  • Mary Ann 1 (Twin 1883)
  • Sarah (Twin 1885)
  • Mary Ann 2 (Twin 1885)
  • Charles (1887)
  • Minnie May (1890)

• FULLER FAMILY (UK Birth Certificate)
  • Mary Ann (1850)
  • Julia Fuller (1852)

• BARRY FAMILY aka McNAMARA (Queensland Birth Certificates)
  • Francis (1874)
  • Margaret Ann (1876)
  • Patrick (1878)
  • William (1880)
  • Mary (1885)
  • Michael (1887)

• MARRIAGE John and Minnie May were the only members of the McNamara family not to marry. William and Ted married for a second time after the death of their wives Hannah Kenafacke and Annabella Fletcher.
   
• McNAMARA FAMILY
  
  • Wedding Album (Photographs of the family's ten marriages 1867 to 1948)
  • James Senior (1867)
  • James Joseph (1900)
  • Sabina (1892)
  • Frank (1917)
  • William & Hannah (1908)
  • William & Mary (1911)
  • Edward & Annabella (1910)
  • Edward & Elsie (1948)
  • Mary Ann 2 (1907)
  • Charles (1939)
    
    
• FULLER FAMILY
  • Mary Fuller (1867)
    
    
• BARRY FAMILY
  • John (1872)
  • Patrick John (1907)
  • Michael (1915)
    
    
• DEATH Many of the McNamara family had long lives, two of them lived to over one hundred years of age while others survived well into their nineties.
   
  
• McNAMARA FAMILY (Queensland Death Certificates)
  • James Senior (1942) - Spouse Mary Anne Fuller (1934)
  • Francis John (1872)
  • James Joseph (1959) - Spouse Mary Anne O'Brien (1955)
  • Sabina (1968) - Spouse August Fontaine (1957)
  • Frank (1957) - Spouse Helen Fletcher (1957)
  • William (1979) - Spouse Hannah Kenafacke (1908) - Spouse Mary Lee (1956)
  • Edward (1955)  - Spouse Annabella Fletcher (1939) - Spouse Elsie Large (1977)
  • John (1946)
  • Mary Ann 1 (1883)
  • Sarah (1887)
  • Mary Ann 2 (1960) - Spouse Edward Cherry (1930)
  • Charles (1979) - Spouse Jane Horrobin (1972)
  • Minnie May (1978)
    
    
• FULLER FAMILY
  • Frederick (1886)
  • Bridget (1882)
  • Mary Ann (1934)
    
    
• BARRY FAMILY
  • John Snr (1929) aka McNamara
  • Mary Ellen Snr (1920)
  • Mary Ellen Jnr (1886)
  • Margaret (1903)
  • Michael (1915)
  • Francis (1917)
  • Patrick John (1954)
  • William (1957)
    
     
• RESEARCH Solving the mystery of Mary Anne Barry and follow the intriguing double life of John McNamara alias John Barry
   
• CONTACT Does any other family researcher recognise connections with the McNamara family and their project.