And a bit more about. M.A.Kelly and Joseph Thomas: Genealogical research has shown that Joseph Thomas’s wife, Margaret Anne née Kelly, died in 1870 at the age of 57 and was buried in the Redbank village cemetery in Pyrenees Shire Victoria, Australia. [Victoria State, burials and memorials] Settled in 1861 and followed shortly afterwards by a gold rush, Redbank with its drought-stricken bush, red clay hills and isolation about 85 kilometres from Ballarat may have seen Thomas’s departure some time later. There appears to be no headstone in the cemetery to mark her final resting-place. Did he re-marry? No official account of a second marriage has so far been found.
The problem still remains: is this the correct M.A.Kelly and Joseph Thomas?