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A fourth child and second daughter was born to Susan and George Griffith in 1861. Her name was Ann Catherine. The birth appears not to have been registered - it doesn't appear in the Pioneers Index of births, but the index of marriages gave her birthplace as New South Wales. The birth did not appear in the NSW Index of Births either, and eventually curiosity got the better of me and I purchased Ann's marriage record to see if it named a town in NSW. It turned out to be "Chilton (sic), New South Wales". Clearly Ann didn't know what colony Chiltern was in, so far from having moved on to another rush in NSW, the Griffiths were still in Chiltern in 1861.
In 1880 Ann Catherine Griffith married Alfred Tarrant. It was interesting to see that both of the fathers' occupations were recorded as 'musician'. Alfred's father was John Tarrant of Fitzroy. By this time the Griffith family was living in Fitzroy, George having died there two years earlier.
Annie was only 23 when she died, and she was buried with her father at the Melbourne General Cemetery. Her name appears on the memorial stone.
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