There were nine children, one daughter first, followed by 8 sons. Of those,
Edward (6th child) and Robert McEvoy (7th child), did not marry. Daniel McEvoy (8th child) had 5 children but
there seem to be no descendants from that family-2 children died young and 3 daughters appear not to have married. Francis (9th child) had 4 children,
one of whom, Harrold, died at Gallipoli but the other children also appear to have had no issue. This means that of Dennis and Ann Jane Carson's
9 children, only the first 5, Catherine, John, William, Joseph and Dennis (twins) have current descendants.
OTHER PAGES: THE CHILDREN of DENNIS and JANE McEVOY
1.6 Edward, 1.7 Robert, 1.8 Daniel, 1.9 Francis
No known current descendants. All their details are on this page.
Immigrants;
1.1 Catherine, 1.2 John, 1.3 William, 1.4 Dennis;
1.5 Joseph;
1.5.1 Fred (3rd generation);
Family Index
EDWARD
1.6 Edward (Ted, Ned) McEvoy, born 30-6-1852 Dry Creek, god parents were James Sullivan and Anne Plunkett
died 4-7-1939, not married. "A wanderer but respectable." Buried in an unmarked grave, position 57, at Sevenhill Cemetery.
It is interesting to note that Edward and Robert had no descendants, but neither did the remaining 2 brothers, Daniel and Francis, whose 9 children
either died young or did not marry.
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ROBERT
1.7 Robert McEvoy, born 8-3-1855 at Dry Creek, died 6-10-1931 Jamestown, not married. Farmed at Bute with brothers Frank, Daniel and Dennis but after the death of Luke Plunkett, his mother's second husband, he moved to Balaklava and worked as a mason until his mother died in 1920, when he returned to Jamestown. He is buried at Jamestown.top of page
DANIEL
1.8 Daniel Mathias McEvoy (pictured left)
born 19-6-1859 Gawler, occupation blacksmith and stonemason, res Gawler and Sevenhill, died 9-2-1947 aged 87, in Jeffcott Street, North
Adelaide buried Sevenhill, married Louisa Mary Gordon Cormack, daughter of James Cormack (1815-1894) and Elizabeth Avery (1815-1902),
born 13-4-1860 in High Street, MacDuff, Scotland died 31-5-1945 aged 85 years, on
29-12-1878 at St Aloysius Church, Sevenhill.
Daniel is listed in 1903 PO directory as a blacksmith of Penwortham (near Clare and Sevenhill). Both buried at St Aloysius Cemetery, Sevenhill. 5 children born when Louisa was aged 20 to 34 years, but it seems there are no living descendants:
- 1.8.1 Elizabeth Ann McEvoy born 24-7-1880 at Sevenhill died 20-8-1970
- 1.8.2 Mary Louisa Jane McEvoy born 24-6-1882 at Sevenhill, artist, died 7-1-1964
- 1.8.3 Ann McEvoy born 26-9-1885 at Hungry Swamp died in a car accident on 28-7-1957
- 1.8.4 John James McEvoy born 16-6-1892 at Quorn died 27-1-1893
1.8.5 Alice Jane McEvoy born 15-1-1894 at Sevenhill died 23-7-1908.
The funeral left the father's residence at Vernon St, Norwood
at 1.45 pm and she was interred in the Catholic Cemetery, West Terrace.
Sisters Ann, Mary and Elizabeth, who apparently did not marry and had no children, are buried together at Centennial Park Cemetery, Adelaide.
Miss E. McEvoy is listed in Sands and McDougall directories as being resident at 227 Jeffcott St, and Barton Tce, North Adelaide until her death in 1970. According to Bob Munro she ran a boarding house there. Her sister, Mary, was an artist and painter and Ann also ran a boarding house at Glenelg but was killed in a car accident in 1957. - 1.8.2 Mary Louisa Jane McEvoy born 24-6-1882 at Sevenhill, artist, died 7-1-1964
Louisa and family (details here) arrived aboard the Atalanta on April 16, 1866. Also listed are John Cormack, Ann Cormack, David Cormack, James Cormack, Elizabeth Cormack, William Cormack, Mary Cormack and Sam Cormack among the Scottish passengers.
Louisa's sister, Mary Cormack, born in Banff Scotland in 1857, married Martin Dobeli, a Swiss immigrant who came to Australia on the Northern Monarch.
They had children in South Australia and later moved to Melbourne, Victoria. Mary died in Melbourne in March, 1927 but there are many Cormacks in Victoria.
Other Cormacks in Canada are also researching the family.
FRANCIS
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1.9 Francis
McEvoy born 18-6-1862 in Lewiston, SA, occupation mason, builder, farm labourer, died suddenly
14-6-1910 aged nearly 48 years, buried Balaklava, married Johanna Louise Zilm (Also shown as Hanna Louise, Louise, Louisa, Luise Hanna) born 12-10-1864 Nain SA,
daughter of Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Zilm and Johanne Luise Urbasch, at Willochra on 8-11-84. Res, Wiltunga nr Bute, Carrieton, Balaklava.
The family moved to Carrieton in about 1890 and Frank worked there as a builder. Information about the family may be found in The Zilms at Nain.
There were 4 children born to Hannah between the ages of 21 and 38 years, but no living descendants:
- 1.9.1 Albert McEvoy born 4-11-1885 at Wiltunga near Bute, SA died 26-10-1966, a good footballer and a builder and stonemason,
married Martha Helen Giles born 1889 died 7-12-1966, daughter of Ernest Giles,
on 1-9-1915 at the Christian Chapel, North Adelaide. The couple had no children. They lived most of their lives at Balaklava, SA. He built the Church of England in Humphreys St, Balaklava.
- 1.9.2 Francis Joseph McEvoy born 30-7-1887 at Wiltunga died 30-11-1926 buried Balaklava Cemetery. He was a footballer and stone mason and did not marry, dying at age 39. In the 1910 Tourists Road Guides for South Australia by W.K Thomas and Co. an FJ McEvoy of Balaklava is the registered owner of a motorcycle, number plate 1335.
- 1.9.3 Harrold James McEvoy (pictured at right) born 26-12-1891 at Carrieton died on 6-8-1915, killed in action at Gallipoli, and is recorded as Cpl, 16th Bn, KIA, on the Lone Pine Memorial at Gallipoli. Harrold James McEvoy was listed as married to an Inez McEvoy of GPO, Broken Hill, where he enlisted, but records of this lady were never found, he made no allotment to her, and his mother, Hanna Sullivan, was eventually awarded a pension as a dependent of her unmarried son. Harrold's father, Francis McEvoy, died in 1910 and Hanna married Patrick Sullivan who died in 1915, making her again a widow. There is definitely a mystery surrounding Inez McEvoy. In some documents she is said to be the sister of Harrold, but he only had one younger sister, Jane who died in 1904. Why would he list Inez as his wife on his enlistment papers? Inez is an extremely unusual name in Australia and only one Inez, born around 1919 comes up in searches. In the 1910 Tourists Road Guides for South Australia by W.K Thomas and Co. H. Jas McEvoy of Balaklava is the registered owner of a motorcycle, number plate 1309. The newspaper article above is from "The Register" 4-9-1917.
- 1.9.4 Jane May McEvoy born 25-5-1893 at Carrieton died 2-2-1904 of meningitis at Adelaide Children's Hospital
- 1.9.2 Francis Joseph McEvoy born 30-7-1887 at Wiltunga died 30-11-1926 buried Balaklava Cemetery. He was a footballer and stone mason and did not marry, dying at age 39. In the 1910 Tourists Road Guides for South Australia by W.K Thomas and Co. an FJ McEvoy of Balaklava is the registered owner of a motorcycle, number plate 1335.
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Many thanks to John Kilmartin (sadly missed, died October, 2009) for researching most of the family information. I have also added details from 'A Wee Deoch and Doris, The Family of Doris Amy Munro nee McEvoy' by Robert J. Munro (with thanks), some from the internet taken on trust and from a sheet of information I have which was written in 1976 by Allan McEvoy, born 1902. Please email me with details of any mistakes you find.
Updated 12-11-2021