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From: "Les Hewett, Napier, New Zealand" <>
Subject: PHEMISTER RESEARCHERS ?
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 14:12:17 +1300


Would appreciate any comments, additions or alterations to this draft. Sincere thanks: Les and Gloria, Napier, NZ.

Rose McKee was the daughter of John Ceasar McKee and Margaret Warren Phemister (m.1864/2117), one of their eight children, born in Smith's Flats (now Copmanhurst), NSW, March 26, 1865/9146? Other known children: Ruth Isabella, 1879/14315; Edith M., 1884/19784; Elizabeth I., 1888/5424; Mary, d.1883/9296 (also other unnamed children in records). Margaret Phemister arrived in NSW with her parents and family on board the "Asia," 10 May 1839, after a horror voyage that started in Cromarty, Scotland, on 17 September 1838. On the way a son Peter died at Plymouth where the ship was undergoing repairs, and a daughter Jane was born in the Bay of Biscay. [Jane was christened in the St. Andrew's Scots Presbyterian Church, Sydney, 1839.] A son James G. was born in Denbie Parish, Hunter District, 1840. Margaret's parents were George Phemister (d.1867/5213), son of James and Rachel, and Margery Warren (d.1877/5515, daughter of Peter and Beatrice Warren(?), Scotland. Nothing yet known of Jo!
hn McKee but a John McKee, 21, arrived on the "Emma,"1857 (Film No.'s 2138, 2475). No John McKee (this spelling) appears in the old Scottish Parish Registers, IGI, c.1836). (Many of the Scottish and NSW-born children have names that correspond with early Scottish families found: below.)


The Phemister family that arrived in 1839 were the only family of this name in NSW to 1885 at least. Children: Alexander William, m.Ellen McLaughlin 1877/2976; Ann m.Robert Simpson 1861; Charles George m.Alice E. Havinden 1878; Isabella m.Thomas Cavanagh 1856; *Jane m.Martin Donnell 1858; John m.Louisa J. Havinden (sister to Alice) 1876; Margaret m.John McKee 1864; Margery m.Julius McRae 1865; *James m.Frances J. B. Sullivan 1882. (Seventeen children to these couples by 1887.) *NSW born.


Family research in Scotland provides: Peter Warran/Warren born to James Warran and Isabella McBain, May 12, christened May 25, Parishes of Cromdale and Inverallan and Alvie, Inverness. His siblings were Christian, May 1, 1807; Margarat, June 11 1809; William, July 15, 1816; Elspat, January 17, 1819. Later children christened as Warren, all at above Parishes which was the practice. There is a James Warran b.Cromdale about 1778, spouse of Isabella McBain (IGI); no Isabella McBain born/christened about this time found in the IGI, but there was an Isabella McBain christened March 19, 1749, in Alvie, to Farquar McBain and Janet McDonald. This McBain family could be her grandparents? The marriage of Peter Warren and Beatrice, and James and Rachel Phemister, not found in IGI. However, a James Phemister was christened October 20, 1777, Urquhart, Moray, to George Phemister and Agnes Hay (marriage not found). Other children: Margaret, christened February 15, 1767; Alexander, November !
26, 1780 (both Urquhart).


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