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Andrew ARMSTRONG & Martha GRAHAM

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NSW Marriage 2836/1857 ARMSTRONG ANDREW - GRAHAM MARTHA - WOLLONGONG * 3 Jul * Wesleyan

NSW Death 1625/1899 ARMSTRONG MARTHA - JOHN - JANE - GRAFTON * 14 Jan * no age at death

NSW Death 2043/1900 ARMSTRONG ANDREW - THOMAS - ELIZABETH - LISMORE * 2 Jan 1900

Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, NSW) - Thu 4 Jan 1900 p.2
DEATH
ARMSTRONG.-At Lismore, on the 2nd instant, Andrew Armstrong, J.P., formerly of Wollongong, aged 70 years.

Looking for their births and arrival ?? The obit hints that Andrew may have arrived when very young.

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A large number of possible deaths in NSW index for a Thomas Armstrong.


https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/135939708
Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, NSW : 1856 - 1950) Tue 21 Dec 1880 Page 2
MARRIAGE.
McDONALD - ARMSTRONG.— At the residence
of the bride's father, on the 9th November
ultimo, by the Rev. H. W. T. Pincombe.
John Robert, second son of Mr. D. A.
M'Donald. Wollongong, to Elizabeth Amelia,
second daughter of Mr. A. Armstrong, of the
same place.

NSW Birth ARMSTRONG ELIZABETH A 7766/1860 ANDREW - MARTHA - KIAMA
 
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Andrew Armstrong age 10 from Dromore Co Tyrone arrived Sydney 21 July 1841 on ship “Helen” with parents Thomas 37 and Eliza 35 & sister Catherine age 9 (she died 1845)– Assisted Immigrants
father Thomas
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/135864964?searchTerm=thomas armstrong

Mum Elizabeth death cert has died 5 Oct Corrimal St Wollongong farmer’s widow age 76, born Ireland in colony about 39 yrs NSW – Spouse Thomas Armstrong – Children Andrew 51 living 1 female dec, Informant Andrew Armstrong son Corrimal st Wollongong – father = Francis Graham Mother unknown, buried 6 Oct Wesleyan Cemetery Wollongong – (her Mother is Catherine Neville)

Elizabeth Amelia McDonald nee Armstrong died Dec 1925
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/233855541?searchTerm=elizabeth mcdonald
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/93537480?searchTerm=elizabeth mcdonald
 

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Martha b 1824 Kilskeery Tyrone to John Graham (1799-1881) & Jane McFarland (1802-1888)

baptised 10 Feb 1824 Moorefield Kilskeery – arrived 29 April 1844 on “United Kingdom” age 21 from Kitskiddy Tyrone

death of her father – Sept 1881
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/113841981?searchTerm=john graham marshall mount

death of her Mother Jane – 23 March 1888 – 84 yr buried Wollongong Cemetery – spouse John Graham – children: Charles, Neville & Francis Graham - Findagrave
 

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Thanks Val.

So far I can't find the death reg for Thomas Armstrong.

Or the death reg for John Graham?

... residence early on Sunday morning last. ... so should be 25 Sep 1881.
 
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