Can you please help Christine with her query?
She wrote John Carrol 1824 + Emma Membery Wellington. Married 12 July 1851 Wellington. family . Mary ann Carroll .John Carroll .Catherine Carroll, William Carroll, James Farmer Carroll. Emma's death at Featherston by Accidental death from drowning in 1861 left my GGGrandfather on his own with a very young family, James just a baby. WHAT happened to them. Did John remarry. Who? what were they doing going though Featherston. Who were John's (1824) parents and his brothers and sister's?. John Carroll i see was spelt Carrol. Are they connected to the group of Carrolls at Wanganui. Was his Brother Joseph Carroll. My 3 Grandfathers going down the line all share the same name John Carroll. Any help please
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Emma Membrey was the 5th of 12 children of William Stewart Membrey (1805-1887) & Elizabeth Alice Phelps (1806-1850). She married John Carroll (1824-1919) from County Donegal in Wellington 12 July 1851 and had at least 5 children in Wellington/Hutt districts

Emma drowned in Featherston 5 May 1861 at the age of 28
Wellington Independent, 14 May 1861
Coroner's Inquest - An inquest was held at Abbot's Featherston Hotel on Thursday last, before H. S. Wardell, Esq., acting Coroner and a respectable jury, on view of the body of Emma Carroll, wife of John Carroll, who came to her death under the following painful circumstances. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased, together with her husband and five children, were proceeding in Mr Lucena's car to Abbott's when, on crossing a stream, the water of which was unusually high in consequence of the heavy rains, the cart was turned on it side. The driver jumped into the stream/ The cart was covered over with a tarpaulin and Carroll managed to get out by cutting away the covering. The deceased handed four children to her husband, who conveyed them to the bank and on returning for the fifth time and whilst speaking to his wife, the cart completely turned over, confining the deceased and one child below it. Carroll succeeded in partially removing the tail board and by groping in the cart under the water, after removing some bundles and a quantity of straw, drew form under it, the eldest boy; but could not reach the deceased, who when afterwards found, was covered with the tarpaulin. After Carroll had given up all hopes of recovering deceased alive, Mr Lucena arrived, when some few minutes were spent in endeavouring to save the horse; the attempt, however, was unsuccessful. They then left for assistance and the body was recovered in about an hour afterwards, as above described. The jury returned a verdict of 'Accidental death by drowning.'
We would take this opportunity of impressing on the attention of persons residing in the County Districts, the importance of inquests being held in all cases arising from other than natural causes. The Coroner's Act provides that in cases where no Coroner is within 20 miles, any Justice of the Peace may act as Coroner. It is a duty we owe to society, to take proper steps for having enquiries in such cases properly made and to this end it is necessary that th bodies of deceased persons should be kept unburied until after the inquest is held.

Was John's brother Joseph Carroll, the father of Sir James Carroll ?

children of John CARROLL & Emma MEMBERY
* . 1 . Mary Anne Carroll
born 7 Sep 1851 in Wellington
died 22 August 1867 aged 15 in Wellington

* . 2 . John Carroll
born 21 June 1853 in Wellington
married Bertha Ann Coleman (1857-1937) in 1876
daughter of Thomas Coleman & Kezia Jane Badman
they had 3 daughters
1877 - 1888 Maud Jane Carroll (age 10)
1879 - 1970 Phoebe Ann Carroll (+Frew)
1881 - Amy Carroll (+Chamberlain)
JOHN Carroll (jnr) died 19 June 1882, in Rangitikei, 2 days from 29
. their son, John Carroll, was born 7 months later on 2 Jan 1883. This son John married Rhoda Moore
2 children found to date
1908 - Evelyn Myrtle Carroll
1910 - Rubert Vincent Carroll
- John remarried in 1928 to Mary Cox (see above link)
* Bertha Carroll remarried in 1884 to John GRAY
. they had 2 children:
1885 - Karon Beatrice Gray
1888 - Maud Julian gray

* . 3 . Catherine Jane Carroll aka Kate Milne
born 9 May 1856 in Wellington
'Kate' married Alfred Signal on 29 Nov 1876
their known children
1877 - 1962 James Henry Signal
. James married Amy May Amer in 1900. Amy was a daughter of Edward Amer & Mary Smith. Her sister Ivy married James's brother Sydney
1879 - 1949 Emily Ada Signal
. Emily married William Head in 1901. William was a son of John & Maria Head. His sister Lucy married Emily's brother Alfred
1882 - 1967 Alfred Albert Signal
. Alfred married Lucy Ellena/Eleanor Head in 1904. Lucy was a daughter of John & Maria Head. Her brother William married Alfred's sister Emily
1884 - 1955 Sydney Raymond Signal
. Sydney married Ivy Mabel Hilda Amer in 1908. Ivy was a daughter of Edward Amer & Mary Smith. Her sister Amy married Sydney's brother James
1886 - 1976 Hilda Kate Signal
. Hilda married John William Wells in 1905
1889 - 1963 Douglas Campbell Signal
. Douglas married Ethel Annie Gardner in 1914
1891 - Ellen Girta Signal
. nothing known
1895 - Evelyn May Signal
. Evelyn married George Henry Futcher in 1916
1897 - 1981 Norman Gordon Signal
. Norman married Beulah Emma Smith in 1920
KATE died in Wanganui in 1950

* . 4 . William Henry Carroll
born 19 Sep 1858 in Wellington
died 5 March 1875 aged 16 in Wellington

* . 5 . James Farmer Carroll
born 11 Sept 1860 in Wellington
. married Mary Louisa Batt (1866-1923) in 1891
they had 5 children
1891 - 1932 Herbert James Carroll
. Herbert died 19 July 1932 aged 41 and is buried with his father in Feilding Cemetery
1897 - 1988 Esme Aileen Carroll
. Esme married Henry William Mohekey (1879-1953) in 1916
1900 - Fred Carroll
- nothing known
1902 - 1995 Keith Ambrose Carroll
. Keith died aged 93
1905 - 1992 Kathleen Saidie Carroll
. Kathleen married Antonio Wilfred Zuppici (1903-1991) in 1928
(there is a large gap between children, 1891-1897, possibly others ?)
James Farmer Carroll died 12 April 1949 aged 88 in Manawatu. He is buried in Plot 1132, Row 65, Block 2 at Feilding Cemetery with his son Herbert James
Mary Louisa Carroll died in Otaki Horowhenua on 6 Oct 1923 aged 56 and is buried in Block A, Plot 22 at Manakau Cemetery Horowhenua

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