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From: "Robyn Gross" <>
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] John McPHERSON: Waurn Ponds/Duneed/Moriac
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:16:02 +1000
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Marion,
Had a look at the inquests some notes

John MacPherson died Deans Creek Colac 1847 listed as a hut keeper drowned
no age given

A Duneed death for 9mth male child in 1866 cause dentition no name given

Mt Moriac death for Isabella McPherson 1866 heart disease wife no age given

Just some clues to M*cPhersons in teh area that might be woth a follow up .

Robyn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marion Stainsby" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] John McPHERSON: Waurn Ponds/Duneed/Moriac


>
> On 16/06/2010, at 7:15 PM, Robyn Gross wrote:
>
>> Marion
>>
>> There was John McPherson and Jannet McWhennell who had a daughter
>> Elizabeth
>> in 1855 in Duneed #8014
>> only child to this couple.
>>
>> might be the one that went missing?
>>
>> RObyn
>
> Child went missing in 1853, according to Stewart McAdam's notes.
> Stewart has an index card for John McPherson of Mt Moriac with a wife
> Janet and daughters Elizabeth 1857-1923 and Janet. He has this John
> buried in 1869 aged 44. He refers to a 1869 Poundkeepers Register, and
> the Geelong Shipping Register, and elsewhere lists a Jane and Janet
> arriving by the "Indus" from Glasgow in 1849, adding a note "may have
> been the early Mt Moriac people". Re the lost child, he has added
> "(Believed to have been found dead later)".
>
> Ages don't add up properly, but it's possible that John had two
> marriages. But there's still the problem Linda raised about separate
> entries in the 1856 electors list.
>
> Marion
>
>
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