Rose Crockett TANGEY [862] ¹⁶⁴⁵

  General Notes:

On 1 October 2016, DNA results confirmed the theory set out below. I found an Ancestry.com member who shares 50 cM of DNA over 5 segments with Margaret Ann Sullivan. This man's direct ancestor and the only connection so far found, was George Crocker, the brother of James Crocker, sons of James Crocker and Mary Ann Bow. The Ancestry members name is 1_philgeo who is a direct descendant of James Crocker and Mary Ann Bow whose son George Crocker married Mary Ann Reynolds, and had daughter Martha Mary Crocker, Martha Mary married Samuel Watts Pope, who had a son, George Albert Pope, who had a son William Samuel Pope and is the father of 1_philgeo.

Rose Crockett Tangey's father was not Richard Tangey, as is recorded on her birth certificate, but as Richard and Jane had separated in 1877, historical stories and DNA has now confirmed that Rose's biological father was in fact James Crocker. Richard Tangey and Jane (Mitchell) separated on the 13th March 1877. The separation was published in the Castlemaine Mail newspaper. This was 18 months prior to the birth of Rose and 3 years before the birth of the youngest child Joseph. (Feb 2013)

In view of the fact that the Rose's previous sister Anne born 1871, has father recorded as unknown, then the next child following Rose, Joseph born 1881, also has an unnamed father, I assume that at least the last two children, Rose CROCKETT (probably supposed to be Crocker) and Joseph Crocker Tangey are actually the children of James Crocker, who was said to be a blacksmith and undertaker. Despite the fact that Rose's father is recorded as Richard Tangey on her birth certificate, her second name would at least make this suspect. On Rose's birth certificate, her mother's name is given as Jane Price, however I believe that this is a transcription error as the entry underneath also gives the mothers maiden name as Price and the age of 30 for both entries, but the address is given as Yapeen as it was on the birth of Joseph Crocker Tangey. The entry has later been corrected to give the mothers age as 43 years, but the maiden name has not been corrected. There is also a correction stating that the mother was born in Cornwall. The birth was registered on 28 December 1878 and the corrections were made on 31 Dec 1878. (Jan 2013)

Maldon News 5 January 1917 page 3
On New Year's Day a very sudden death look place in Newstead, Mrs Collihole the wife of Mr J. Collihole dying only after a few hours illness the cause of death being uraemic convulsions Mrs Collihole was only 38 years of age, Her husband and eleven children are left to mourn their loss. The funeral took place on Tuesday in the Newstead cemetery, the Rev Nicholas conducting the service. Mr Kinross carrying out the funeral arrangements;

Rose married John COLLIHOLE [861] [MRIN: 259], son of John COLLIHOLE [1027] and Mary CUSACK [1012], on 28 Jul 1897 in Castlemaine, Vic, Australia.¹⁶³⁸ (John COLLIHOLE [861] was born on 28 Jul 1872 in Strangways, Vic, Australia,¹⁶³⁹ died on 28 May 1943 in Red Cliffs, Vic, Australia ^1640,1641 and was buried on 28 May 1943 in Red Cliffs, Vic, Australia.)