Julie: I got this from another researcher though I have not found very little to substantiate any of it.
Amelia remarried at the age of 44 in 1842 to Thomas O'Keeffe, a 55 year old convict farmer of Swan Reach.
In addition to their already combined family Amelia and Thomas had three children of their own. The first Margaret was baptized 11 April 1843, followed by Mary Anne b. 7 May 1845. Amelia's children Sydney, Francis and Sussanah had all originally been baptized into the Church of England. For some reason however on the 25th of April 1846 she had those three children, as well as John baptized again as a Roman Catholics (Adelaide had been baptized by an Episcopal Chaplain and
was baptized again as a Catholic on the 11th of November 1849). Six weeks later Amelia, then 48, gave birth to her last child Rose Anne on 6 June 1846.
She was buried 9 JUN 1846 in Hyland Cres. Cemetery, East Maitland.
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