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From: "Dianne Randell" <>
Subject: Fw: [AUS-MELB] Annie McKillop Melbourne 1854
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:53:30 +1000


Colin's email said Annie was born in 1838 at Little Dunkeld , Scotland.
Para. 3 below says Dunkeld - a Victorian location - not Scotland. but there
was a Little Dunkeld Parish in Strathtay, Perthshire, Scotland.
Di.


From Robert
From: "Patricia Jungwirth" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: [AUS-MELB] Annie McKillop Melbourne 1854


> Hi,
>
> I could be very wrong here - but based on the info supplied there seems to
> be a lot of questions ..
>
> 1. Annie McKillop was married to James Patterson in 1854 -
> yet she was apparently born in Scotland in 1838 - strikes me that marriage
> at 16 years of age wasn't common in 1854? and such a young lass would
> surely have come to Australia with older family members? what of them?
>
> 2. The marriage indexes generally don't supply the place of marriage -
they
> actually supply the birthplace - the Vic indexes for the marriage in 1886
> suggest that Walter Robb was born "SEA" - which we may assume is Sealake?
>
> 3. The marriage index for Walter Robb's spouse in 1886 indicates that
Annie
> Paterson was born in Dunkeld - a Victorian location - not Scotland..
>
> 4. I imagine that some certificates may help to clear things up? perhaps
> the marriage cert. for 1886?
>
> 5. If Annie was 16 when she married in 1854 - she was born about 1838 -
and
> had she lived a fairly usual life - and getting married in 1886 - I would
> expect that Annie died in the period of say 1895-1915 - the Vic BDM
indexes
> should help to find this person?
>
> good luck
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
> At 08:33 PM 13/06/02 +1000, "Colin Paterson" <>
wrote:
> >G'day Genie's,
> >I am still having trouble finding my gggg Grandmother Her name was Annie
> >McKillop, she married my gggg Grandfather James Paterson in the
Presbyterian
> >Church Collins St Melbourne July 1854 after producing five children James
> >died from a heart condition and is buried Sth Melbourne (Emerald Hill).
> >James arrived in January 1854 from Scotland on board the Mooresfort.
> >23 years later she remarried to Walter Robb, I think at Sealake 1886. My
> >problem is that I can't find when she arrived in Melbourne and when and
> >where she died. She was born in Little Dunkeld in Scotland 1838.
> >I have searched the AVRI is there any other place I can look?
> >
> >Kind regards
> >Col Paterson
> >http://www.perthdps.com/research/pat01.html
> >
> >
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