Individual Details

Birth

Father: Nicholas HOFFMANN, farmer, born Bulgaria
Mother: Ellen MORGAN, born Australia. They were married 26th December
1861.

Ellen MORGAN'S parents were Evan Morgan, blacksmith (son of Evan
MORGAN and Jane THOMAS) born Glamorgan, Wales cira 1814, able to read
and write, and Mary McNAMARA 25, born Bridgend, Wales cira 1815,
nursemaid, able to read and write before leaving Liverpool on the ship
"MOFFATT", arriving at Sydney 21st May 1841. Their issue were:-
William: born 1842 NSW
Ellen: born 4th September 1844
Jane: born 1846
Mary MORGAN ne McNAMARA apparently died after the third child was
born. Her husband, Evan MORGAN had landed at Little Hartley, NSW and
married secondly Eleanor Moran DUNN, also from Wales.

Nicholas HOFFMANN and Ellen MORGAN had 13 issue:
Mary Jane: born 1863 married John QUINN
William Nicholas: born 1866
John P: born 1868 died 1883
Edley Samuel: born 1870
Michael: born 1872
Annie Isabel: born abt 1874 married Charles Herbert QUINN
Thomas L: born 1876
Barbara Eleanor E: born 1877
Lillian May: born 28 August 1880 married Thomas Patrick QUINN
Violet Gertrude: born 28 August 1880 married Patrick Thomas QUINN
Elizabeth A: born 1882
Philippa M: born 1884
Walter H: born 1888

Lillian was one of 13 children (7 males, 6 females)
She, and three of her sisters married 4 brothers, three of them on the
same day.

Lillian May and Violet Gertrude were twins, and married identical
twins.

Marriage

Patrick Thomas QUINN and three of his brothers, married four sisters,
three of them on the same day.
Patrick and Lilly HOFFMANN were the second of the three on that day.

Death

May have died in childbirth.