Who on earth is Mary?

I have found out a whole lot of information about my ancestor James Welch's immediate family. His brother married well and is the Harrismith connection, More about him later.

Finding information about James Welch, the one that is my great grandfather as well as the one that was my great great grand father, is like trying to see the rock that caused the ripples on a body of water.

Yesterday I found this

DEPOT     NAB                                                                  

TYPE      Photo                                                                

REFERENCE C4949                                                                 

DESCRIPTION       Portrait  of  Mrs. Emma Joyner (formerly Welch, nee Rodgers)  (by B Kisch.) 

                                She was the first white  woman  to  settle  in Umzinto.                                                             

SUMMARY   Origin: O Welch, P.O. Kententon. A1031.   

and today I found this:

Ridgeway,Welch,15 May-1876,19-May-1876,At the Berea Road church by the Rev J
Reynolds,"Henry Ridgeway of Durban to - Mary youngest daughter of the late
Mr James Welch, Umzinto''

Now is this actually Mary? 

And we know the undaunted Emma Roger Welch, married Donald Joyner in Umzinto in 1862. I did have a question mark as to how she could have met somebody so far away from where I knew she was. James going there to work would be a good reason.

So now we move ever closer in trying to see when James Welch died.

If we have a wedding in 1876, and can hopefully make the assumption that she was at least 16 then she should have been born in 1860.

We know that Emma got married on the first day of 1862. With this logic we can see that James died no earlier that 1859 and no later that 1861.

I am sure that there is a photo with Mary written on it. Until then I have allocated the above photo to be Mary. Sh is a pretty little girl.

There are now a whole lot of questions.

Will his death certificate be in the same church as where she got married.?
Is there a birth certificate for Mary?
Is Mary on Joyner's time line.... these are all interesting question.
The other one is, who was Donald Joyner related to? Was William his father or grandfather? Found the answer to this one, William was his brother. We come from a whole long line of being the brother or sister to the important one. This make hunting down the info so much more fun. This probably resulted in a few anti-social characteristics.

This is actually fun. I have trained for the last 35 years to find bugs in computer code, and this feels very much like that.

update

found

DEPOT     NAB                                                                
SOURCE    MSCE                                                                
TYPE      FILE                                                                
VOLUME_NO 3/21                                                                
SYSTEM    01                                                                  
REFERENCE W2/1857                                                            
PART      1                                                                  
DESCRIPTION          WELCH, JAMES. (S/S EMMA).                                          
STARTING  1857                                                                
ENDING    1858

he died for a whole year?

found Ridgeway's death notice

DEPOT NAB SOURCE MSCE TYPE LEER VOLUME_NO 0 SYSTEM 01 REFERENCE 7/358 PART 1 DESCRIPTION RIDGWAY, HENRY VICARS. (S/S MARY, BORN WELCH). STARTING 18920000 ENDING 18920000

1892 - 1876 lasted 16 years...

and then she died 24 years later

DEPOT     NAB                                                                
SOURCE    MSCE                                                                
TYPE      LEER                                                                
VOLUME_NO 0                                                                  
SYSTEM    01                                                                  
REFERENCE 67/1916                                                            
PART      1                                                                  
DESCRIPTION          RIDGWAY, MARY. (BORN WELCH).                                        
STARTING  1916                                                                
ENDING    1916