McNamara Family Queensland

James McNamara Snr - Mary Anne Fuller

James McNamara Senior - Mary Anne Fuller Nanango 1867

Married Nanango, Queensland - 13 February 1867

James McNAMARA Senior married Mary Ann FULLER in a civil ceremony at the Nanango Court House, Queensland, Wednesday 13 February 1867 before South Burnett District Registrar William Cradock Nowell Bussell.

The eldest daughter of Fred Fuller and Bridget Beeching was six months short of her seventeenth birthday when she exchanged vows with 25 years old James. The couple first met at the Jondaryan Wool Shed in 1864 when both families worked at the property.

Oscar Kosa a local auctioneer and Fred Fuller, father of the bride acted as witnesses to the ceremony. The union produced a family of 12 children including two sets of twins. All but three children survived infancy, some living to over ninety years.