Hi Adrienne

Do you have oral or written family stories which state that Robert Kelly b 1860 Kk Michael was an illegitimate son of Elizabeth Kelly, or have you discovered this in recent years, worked out from your research of records ? Did you ever find newspaper reports of his mining accident ?

I’m curious about the fact that Robert gave his father’s details as William Kelly (deceased) when he married Jane McGinn in Liverpool in 1885. Do you think that he invented a father so as to avoid stating that he was illegitimate ? Or is it possible that he really was a son of a William Kelly (and therefore not the same person as the Robert Kelly/Mills, illegit son of Elizabeth Kelly and a Mr Mills ?)

Jean C