Thompson / Corporaal Family History

Mary Josephine Deery ¹

   Cause of her death was Chronic Hepatitus & Pneumonia/Uraemic convulsions [Kidney failure].

  General Notes:

Mary Josephine Deery's birth was not registered. Calculation from documents place the date between 1852 & 1854.

The marriage banns say Mary was 19 years old. If right she would have been born in 1852

Her death certificate states she was 66 on May 13, 1920. So that puts the year of her birth at 1854.
It also states that her father was William Deery, a civil servant and her mother was Caroline (maiden name unknown). However these parents names conflict with other records.

She did have a sister Caroline and a brother William, 2 siblings that out lived her by a few years so the undertaker may have assumed that they were the next of kin and wrongly transcribed them as her parents

Notice of Intention to Marry (Ref BDM 20/16 page 51 No 4481: RG 1871/168) [Marriage Banns]
William Thompson, Bachelor, Miner, 29y, Res 3 Days but "usually at Shortand - Auckland"
Mary Josephine Deery, Spinster, Dressmaker, 19y, Res Parnell 19y
Consent by Henry Deery father
Notice/certificate 28 January 1871
In St John the Baptist Church Parnell by Very Rev Dominic Gallosi"

Note the "consent by Henry Deery father". This researcher is inclined to believe the ITM is the correct interpretation. This is because the ITM is 50 years younger and the information on the death certificate was given by the undertaker. There is no record of where he got his data.

NOTE: There are some documents where her name is misread as "DURY" and others where it is mis-spelled as "DEARY"

  Some of her life's milestones were:

She was working as a Dressmaker in Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand on Jan 28, 1871 ⁴

She was working as a Homemaker in Boulder City, Western Australia, Australia 1906 To 1916 ⁵

Address: "Hillgrove" 31 Davis St, from 1910 to 1916, in Boulder City, Western Australia, Australia. ^{6 6} The house was named for the mining town in northern New South Wales where the family lived previously.

Mary was living at "Hillgrove" 31 Davis St Boulder City, Western Australia, Australia in 1910 To 1916 ⁷

She was working as Nurse in Boulder City, Western Australia, Australia on Aug 23, 1919 ⁶ Occupation mentioned in Wm. D.T. Thompson's death notice

Mary married William Thomas Denis Thompson, son of Unknown and Unknown, on Jan 29, 1871 in Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand.¹ (William Thomas Denis Thompson was born in 1842 in Cork, Ireland,^{8 9} died on Aug 23, 1919 in Boulder City, Western Australia, Australia ¹⁰ and was buried on Aug 24, 1919 in Boulder City, Western Australia, Australia ¹⁰.). The cause of his death was Senile Decay.

  Special events in their marriage were:

There is a story told by Steven Ranson that had been told to him by his grandfather Eugene Percival Thompson:
"William was living in a house that was half buried in the side of a hill such that the chimney from the fire came out of the ground. In order to meet William, Mary Josephine apparently climbed the hill and poured water down the chimney. This doused the fire & forced William to come out to investigate."

They had their marriage banns published on Jan 28, 1871 in Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. ¹¹
William Thompson, Bachelor, Miner, 29y, Res 3 Days but "usually at Shortland - Auckland"
Mary Josephine Deery, Spinster, Dressmaker, 19y, Res Parnell 19y
Consent by Henry Deery father
Notice/certificate 28 January 1871 (marriage could be later)
In St John the Baptist Church Parnell by Very Rev Dominic Gallosi

They were married in St. John the Baptist Church, Jan 29, 1871, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. ¹² By The Very Reverand Dominic Gallosi