IDENTITY: Ruth Madeline Hughan, eldest daughter of Allan Cunningham Ramsay Hughan and Phoebe Berry Hall.Born 1861( or perhaps 1860)...there has not been found a birth certificate for her, so her birth date and place are unknown. Later documents referred to her birthplace as "Goulburn, Victoria".
She was a niece of Bertha Hughan Bishop.In Noumea in 1881, Ruth married Francis Charles Holworthy, the son of Charles Wilmot Holworthy and his wife Mary Margaret. He had been baptised at St. Pancras, London, in 1837, and so was a good deal older than 20 year old Ruth by at least 24 years.
Ruth died shortly after giving borth to her first child, a son named Wilmot Francis, in 1883.