Ann Catherine (Donald) Hughes (1865)

Born 1865 in New Zealand

Ancestors

Died [date unknown] in New Zealand

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Biography

Ann Catherine Donald was born on 27 Sep 1865 in Russell, New Zealand to John Donald and Isabella.^[1]

Ann Catherine Donald married Peter Hughes in 1886.^[2][3]

Research Notes

Ann and Peter seem to have been conflated with another couple in the research done for this profile so far, as the death record found for Ann was actually for Catherine Ann (Hegarty) Hughes.

Details for this other family:

• Catherine Ann Hegarty married Charles Peter Hughes in 1879.^[4]

• Catherine and Charles had eleven children:

1. Mary Hughes (1880-)
2. Catherine Hughes (1881-)
3. William Charles Hughes (1883-)
4. Joseph Hughes (1885-)
5. Jane Hughes (1887-)
6. Eliza Jane Hughes (1888-)
7. Sarah Ann Hughes (1891-)
8. James Hughes (1892-)
9. Margaret Hughes (1896-)
10. Maurice Hughes (1899-)
11. John Albert Hughes (1902-)

• Catherine's husband Charles Peter Hughes passed away in 1920, aged 74 years (born c1846).^[5]

• Catherine Ann Hughes passed away in 1935, aged 74 years (born c1861).^[6]

• Catherine Ann Hughes of Dunedin, widow, signed her last will and testament on 5 Feb 1935 - in it she appointed Maurice Vernon Lousley of Dunedin, solicitor, as trustee and executor. She directed him to pay any balance to the Mother Superior of the St Vincent de Paul Orphanage at Dunedin. His affidavit states she passed away on 12 Mar 1935 at Dunedin. The will was proved on 12 Apr 1935.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24J-PM2C : 27 November 2017), Ann Catherine Donald, 1865; citing Birth, New Zealand, registration number 1865/9030, Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.
2. ↑ "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24K-Q7BZ : 4 October 2016), Peter Hughes and Ann Catherine Donald, 1886; citing Marriage, New Zealand, registration number 1886/2640, Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.
3. ↑ BDM NZ 1886/2640| Ann Catherine |Donald |Peter | Hughes
4. ↑ "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24V-F6LC : 4 October 2016), Charles Peter Hughes and Catherine Ann Hegarty, 1879; citing Marriage, New Zealand, registration number 1879/117, Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.
5. ↑ "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG62-W8QG : 4 January 2018), Charles Peter Hughes, 1920; citing Death, New Zealand, registration number 1920/11450, Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.
6. ↑ "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG6K-WNJC : 4 January 2018), Catherine Ann Hughes, 1935; citing Death, New Zealand, registration number 1935/14997, Archives of New Zealand, Wellington.
7. ↑ "New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, Probate Records, 1843-1998," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9V-GGRS : 9 March 2021), Catherine Ann Hughes, 1935; citing , Dunedin Probate and Letters of Administration Files (I), 1907-1950, record number 14594, Archives New Zealand, Auckland Regional Office; FamilySearch digital folder 100846460.