William James Nash
Born 1 March 1864 at Clunes, Victoria. Son of William Nash and Susan Kearns. Younger brother of Elizabeth.
He married twice. He married Mary Ann Kelly at Hay, New South Wales, 10 May 1886. (Mary was born in Nenagh, Tipperary, Ireland on 5 May 1869; her parents were James Kelly and Mary Scully, also both born in Nenagh, Tipperary. William James Nash and Mary Ann had at least three children :
- William John Herbert Nash was born in Junee, New South Wales, on 1 February 1887, dying just four years later on 8 May 1891.
- Elizabeth A. Nash was born in NSW in 1892.
- Ethel Celia Nash was born in Coolgadie, W.A. in 1897.
William's wife, Mary Ann, died in Boulder, Western Australia on 28 April 1903.
William married a second time to Lillian Greaves, who had been born in approximately 1866 in Fremantle, Western Australia.
William James Nash died in Fremantle, Western Australia on 15 September 1938.
Some information about the Nashes was submitted to the International Genealogical Index by Stephen Bennetts of Bunbury, Western Australia, who is great grandson of William James Nash. Stephen's mother, the late Elizabeth (Betty) Bennetts of WA (the daughter of Ethel Celia Nash) also provided some of the above information.
Elizabeth (nee Nash) Cleary's grand-daughter, Sr Sylvia Cleary, recalls that her grandmother had some connections with two girls, surname Kelly, who worked in the Exchange Hotel at the corner of Pitt and Bridge Streets, Sydney. It has since been identified by Betty Bennetts, grand-daughter of Lizzie's brother Jack, that these Kelly girls were sisters of William James Nash's first wife, Mary Ann Kelly.
