Descendants of GAHAN
Notes
In John's son Frederick's birth certificate of 1839 it lists his father as Patrick Gahan, a teacher at a Catholic School and mother as Ann Leary. In John's son Newton Gahan's birth certificate of 1843 lists his father as John Gahan, a Merchantile Clerk and Mother as Ann Leary. In John's son Arthur Gahan's marriage certificate of January 1854 lists his father as John Gahan, a Merchantile Clerk. In John's son Mark Gahan's marriage certificate of April 1858 lists his father as John Gahan, a Schoolmaster. In his daughter Elizabeth's marriage certificate of Sept 1858 John is described as a grocer. In the 1851 census John is described as a clerk.
In Henry Gahan's marriage certificate his father John is described as Plaster (maybe this was miscopied from Master). In the marriage of John Gahan and Anstey McCarthy's marriage the father of John is described as Plasterer. It is possible that this John b1825 is the first son of John b1791.
It would thus seem that John Gahan also went by the name Patrick and had a occupations of grocer, Merchantile Clerk and Schoolmaster and possibly plasterer.
In the 1841 Census St Katherine Cree London Middlesex
Three Herring Court Cree Church Lane 3
John Gahan 45 Clerk Foreign Parts
William Gahan 17 Y
Ann Gahan 38 Laundress Ild
Mary Ann Gahan 15 Y
Catherine Gahan 12 Y
Mark Gahan 10 Y
Arthur Gahan 7 Y
Elizabeth Gahan 6 Y
Frederick Gahan 2 Y
Henry Gahan 3 months YIn the 1851 census at St Dionis Back Church Middlesex
Ipswich Arms
John Gahan Head M 60 Clerk America
Ann Gahan Wife M 50 Ireland
Kilby Gahan Son 18 Painter Brompton, Middlesex, England
Henry Gahan Son 10 London, England
Miller Gahan Son 8 London Aldgate
James Bell Lodger U 30 Bookseller Stepney, Middlesex, England
George Thomson Lodger U 24 Tailor IrelandIn the 1861 Census at St Katherine Cree City of London Middlesex
2 Three Herring Court
John Gahan Head M 75 Ireland
Ann Gahan Wife M 63 Laundress Ireland
Henry Gahan Son U 20 Labourer London, England
James Bell Lodger M 42 Dock Labourer Tower Hamlets
John Riley Lodger M 38 Dock Labourer Ireland
Catherine Riley Daughter U 6 London, EnglandDeath: John Gahan
Year of Registration: 1865
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Poplar
County: London, Middlesex
Volume: 1c
Page: 462or
Death: John Gain
Year of Registration: 1863
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: St Giles
County: London, Middlesex
Volume: 1b
Page: 304or
Death: John Gaines
Year of Registration: 1864
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: St Martin In The Fields
County: London, Middlesex
Volume: 1a
Page: 357or
Death: John Gains
Year of Registration: 1865
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Shoreditch
County: London, Middlesex
Volume: 1c
Page: 120
The shipping records also indicate that Elizabeth Gahan’s mother may have been Mrs J. Ann GAHAN of Leadenhall St, City London. [SR film 2483].
In the 1841 Census St Katherine Cree London Middlesex
Three Herring Court Cree Church Lane 3
John Gahan 45 Clerk Foreign Parts
William Gahan 17 Y
Ann Gahan 38 Laundress Ild
Mary Ann Gahan 15 Y
Catherine Gahan 12 Y
Mark Gahan 10 Y
Arthur Gahan 7 Y
Elizabeth Gahan 6 Y
Frederick Gahan 2 Y
Henry Gahan 3 months YIn the 1851 census at St Dionis Back Church Middlesex
Ipswich Arms
John Gahan Head M 60 Clerk America(possibly an error)
Ann Gahan Wife M 50 Ireland
Kilby Gahan Son 18 Painter Brompton, Middlesex, England
Henry Gahan Son 10 London, England
Miller Gahan Son 8 London Aldgate
James Bell Lodger U 30 Bookseller Stepney, Middlesex, England
George Thomson Lodger U 24 Tailor IrelandIn the 1861 Census at St Katherine Creek City of London Middlesex
2 Three Herring Court
John Gahan Head M 75 Ireland
Ann Gahan Wife M 63 Laundress Ireland
Henry Gahan Son U 20 Labourer London, England
James Bell Lodger M 42 Dock Labourer Tower Hamlets
John Riley Lodger M 38 Dock Labourer Ireland
Catherine Riley Daughter U 6 London, England1871 Census Mile End Old Town
28 Regent Street North
Arthur Gahan Head Wid 40 Grocer General Dealer Middlesex Chelsea
Mary Ann Gahan Daughter UnM 17 Middlesex Whitechapel
Ann Gahan Mother Wid 70 Ireland
John Goodertens Uncle UnM 57 Clerk Norfolk BeestonPossible Death: Ann Gahan
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1796
Year of Registration: 1875
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Age at Death: 79
District: Mile End Old Town
County: London, Middlesex
Volume: 1c
Page: 396
Possible marriage:
Name: Mary Ann Gahan
Year of Registration: 1847
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Whitechapel
County: London, Middlesex
Volume: 2
Page: 535
Possible marriage:
Name: Catherine Gahan
Year of Registration: 1847
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Whitechapel
County: London, Middlesex
Volume: 2
Page: 515
Possible death:
Name: Catherine Gahan
Year of Registration: 1850
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: City Of London
County: London, Middlesex
Volume: 2
Page: 115
In the 1841 Census St Katherine Cree London Middlesex
Three Herring Court Cree Church Lane 3
John Gahan 45 Clerk Foreign Parts
William Gahan 17 Y
Ann Gahan 38 Laundress Ild
Mary Ann Gahan 15 Y
Catherine Gahan 12 Y
Mark Gahan 10 Y
Arthur Gahan 7 Y
Elizabeth Gahan 6 Y
Frederick Gahan 2 Y
Henry Gahan 3 months Y1851 Census Allhallows Barking London
21 Seething Lane - Richard and Jane Jones Family
Elizabeth Gains Servant Unmarried 16 Servant Middlesex ChelseaThe parish of Allhallows Barking is situated next to the Tower of London and in the City of London.
Elizabeth Gahan married William Storey at St Matthew’s Chapel, St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London on 19 September 1858. Elizabeth was the daughter of John Gahan, a grocer. William was born at Monkwearmouth Shore, Durham, England on 27 June 1838.
1861 Census All Saints Poplar
No.7 Mocant St
William Storey Head Mar 23 Shipwright Aperent Durham Sunderland
Elizabeth Storey Wife Mar 23 Middlesex Chelsea
Mary Ann Storey Daughter 2 Middlesex Poplar
Elizabeth Jane Storey Daughter 1 Month Middlesex PoplarPoplar is an area of the East End of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
William is thought to have migrated to Australia ahead of his family in about 1863.
Elizabeth, with their two children, arrived in Sydney aboard the St Hilda on 30 January 1865. The shipping records state William Storey’s address as Mort Street, Balmain, which indicates he was already in Sydney awaiting his family’s arrival. The shipping records also indicate that Elizabeth’s mother was Mrs J. Ann Gahan of Leadenhall St, City London. [SR film 2483]. Leadenhall Street is a major street in the City of London. It runs from Cornhill to Aldgate. Aldgate Pump is at the junction with Aldgate. Historically it has been the location of Lloyd's of London and the East India Company.
The immigration list and the shipping records give Elizabeth's birth place as Chelsea London, a house servant, religion as Church of England and that she could read and write. [SR Film 2139]. As there was no mention of a father of Elizabeth it can be assumed that he was deceased as at 1864.St. Luke's Chelsea, is 3.62 miles southwest of the centre of the City of London, a parish in the Kensington division of the hundred of Ossultone, county of Middlesex. This place was anciently called Chelcheth, or Chelchith, probably from the Saxon Ceosl, or Cesol, sand, and Hythe, a harbour, from which its present name is derived.
When William paid the assisted passage money, for his family to come to Australia, on 29 March 1864, Elizabeth was aged 26 (b1838), Mary Ann was 5 and William was 1. They were all British and were living in Bow Common, London.[SR Reel 2671 Cert 2550 No. 1741 29 March 1864] They arrived in Sydney on the St Hilda on 30 January 1865.[SR Reel 2502 and SMH 31 January 1865]
William John Storey was one of the pioneer shipbuilders of Australia. He came from Sunderland, England, and later brought his wife, formerly Elizabeth Gahan, and two children, to build ships at Jervis Bay, later at Bateman's Bay, and then proceeded to Waterview Bay, Sydney, to build for Captain Rowntree. At age of 45, Elizabeth, sailed a 16-22 ft skiff from Clyde River Jervis Bay to Bateman's Bay and then on to Sydney with her eight children. Two of her sons later became members of parliament.
Ref The Standard Weekly 1944.William Storey died in Balmain District Hospital on 23 June 1877. Elizabeth also died in Balmain District Hospital on 17 January 1889.
On her husband William's death certificate in 1877, Elizabeth is given the surname of Graham (it should have been Gahan).
Death: NSW BDM 2135/1889 STOREY ELIZABETH AGE 48 YEARS DIED BALMAIN BALMAIN
Elizabeth was initially buried at Balmain Cemetery and subsequently moved to Field of Mars North Ryde. The Balmain Cemetery records show: Elizabeth Storey died 17 January 1889, C of E, Balmain aged 48 years.Background to Batemans Bay
Located 279 km south of Sydney, Batemans Bay, at the mouth of the Clyde River. Various sources have cited several Aboriginal groups in the general vicinity prior to white settlement, these being the Walbanga, Murrinjari and Bergalia tribes.The bay was sighted by Captain Cook from the Endeavour on April 22, 1770. He named it after Nathaniel Bateman, his superior on the Northumberland which was engaged in a survey of the coasts of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Cook considered the bay too open to easterly winds to be of much practical use.
The first Europeans to explore the area were the survivors from the wreck of the Sydney Cove who reached the banks of a river, thought to have been the Clyde, on April 16, 1797. Nine of them became the first Europeans to die in the Batemans Bay area. The remainder crossed the river by a canoe they found nearby the next day. Only three survived the difficult journey to Sydney.
George Bass was prompted by the survivors' reports to venture south and on December 14, 1797, he entered Batemans Bay. He observed signs of severe drought and reiterated Cook's view that it was too exposed to function as a port. The bay was regularly visited during the 1820s and 1830s. Timber cutters and fishermen were known to be in the district at the time but there was little settlement, despite a land sale in 1841.
In 1853 James McCauley, a pioneer settler, piloted the first steamer up the Clyde River to Nelligen. The township was gazetted in 1854 and a major road from Nelligen to the goldfields at Braidwood was completed in 1856. A township was laid out at Batemans Bay in April 1859. The postal service commenced operations that year though an official building was not erected until 1894.
Shipbuilding and oyster farming were established around 1860. Limeburners operated on the coastal estuaries for some years, burning live oysters for the oxide.
A timber mill was opened at Batemans Bay by Francis Guy in 1868. In fact the timber trade remained the backbone of local industry throughout the century with steamers carrying milled timber to Sydney twice a week or more. Being almost entirely dependent upon the Sydney building trade the locals were hit hard by downturns, with mills closing, opening, moving and burning down with some regularity. Schools were frequently located near the timber mills and dependent upon their fate. Children often had to walk miles in flourbag clothes to attend half-week schooling in small, bark-roofed slab huts. Apparently baked or stewed koala was not an uncommon dish during times of economic hardship. In 1912 shipwright and timber merchant, Francis Guy, sold Bawley Point Sawmill to A. & E. Ellis of Sydney.
The editor of The Ulladulla and Milton Times (1893) described 'a crude light line of timber railway servicing Guy' Mill at Bawley Point.' Goodlet and Smith had built the Kioloa sawmill at O'Hara Head five kilometres south of Bawley Point in 1891 and about this time, Francis Guy Jnr., son of Francis Guy, who had sawmilling, mining and shipbuilding interests around Batemans Bay since 1870 commenced milling at Bawley Point (MUDHS 1979:4, 9-10).A provisional school opened at Batemans Bay in 1869, with the population of the district recorded at around 60. It was declared a public school in 1872.
In 1871 a ferry service was established across the Clyde at the township of Batemans Bay. It drew some of the trade away from Nelligen, the major centre in the area at that time. A police station was built in 1876, an Anglican church in the early 1880s (services previously being held in makeshift premises) and a two-storey courthouse and police residence in 1885 where the Clyde River Lodge now stands at 3 Clyde St. It burned down in 1903 and was replaced by another at the corner of Beach Rd and Orient St in 1905.
In 1892, the year gold was discovered at Batemans Bay, the population of the township was still only 200, with the same number at Mogo and some 500 at Nelligen.
Frederick's birth certificate (Frederick George Gahan) lists his father as Patrick Gahan, a teacher at a Catholic School and mother as Ann Leary. His brother Newton Gahan's birth certificate lists his father as John Gahan, a merchant Clerk and Mother as Ann Leary. His brother Mark Gahan's marriage certificate lists his father as John Gahan, a Schoolmaster. It would thus seem that John Gahan also went by the name Patrick and had a occupations of both Merchant Clerk and Schoolmaster.
Possible Death:
Name: Frederick Gahan
Year of Registration: 1850
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: City Of London
County: London, Middlesex
Volume: 2
Page: 122
As his son William was staying with John and Ann Gahan in the 1841 census it is assumed that William's father, Richard and John were brothers. This needs checking.
In the 1851 Census William Gahan is with his mother Catherine.
