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From: "Walter Savige" <>
Subject: [AVG] WEIR Family
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:08:15 +1000


Judy,

Here are some OCR-scans relating to Neil Weir and his family - one from
Madden's book and two from Macreadie's book .(referred to by Claire).

Walter Savige

I. Madden's book, page 68:

'Catherine Ferguson, 11-1-1868 and David Weir, 12-1-1868:
The "Guardian" reported on the unusual occurrence of funerals on
successive days at Rosedale. Catherine Ferguson, taking a lift on one of
Henry Luke's drays bringing supplies to his store at Rosedale, from Port
Albert, was killed when the dray hit a stump and overturned, on the Port
Albert-Rosedale Road. No cause of death was given for the lad David Weir,
son of a widow. We wonder, if this was the same boy who gave the alarm on
the night when the coach-driver was drowned, less than four months earlier.
These deaths occurred before William Allen began his careful
entries in the Cemetery Register, and neither is listed. However, in the
preliminary compilation on the first page occurs the entry, "Ferguson,
Glenmaggie". Perhaps the relatives of Catherine Ferguson put up a wooden
cross for her, which lasted long enough for William Allen to record the
name. Perhaps the widow, Mrs. Weir, was unable to erect any memorial over
her son's grave. Thomas Cox, 31-3-1868:'

Macreadie's Book:

pp 228-9: 'The Cemetery . . . 28th July 1861. Neil Weir was only 43 and died
of consumption. He was a cabinet maker and was the son of David and Ellen
Weir. He arrived in Tasmania as a convict in 1845. In 1850 he married
Elizabeth Neil at Hobart and came to Gippsland in 1855. They had 5 children:
Neil, Ellen, Davikd, Charles and John.'

Page 318:

'Weir: This was a very early Rosedale family, and the 1st record of a birth
is for Charles b. Mewburn Park, 14.8.1855, the son of Neil and Eliza Neil
who had married in Hobart 7.8.1850. Charles was the 3rd child (after Anna
Josepha and Phillip Parker King) baptised by Rev. P.K. Simmons.

Weir: Charles b. R. 16.1.1876, the son of Nell (son of Nell) and Ellen
Stagg, who had married in Sale 5.4.1875. Nell was b. in Hobart 1851, and
Ellen at Cherry Tree Flat, South Gippsland in 1858. Other children belonging
to this couple whose births were recorded at Rosedale were; Ellen Eliza b.
R. 2.9.1877; John William b. R. 16.11.1878; Ethel Valentine b. R. 14.2.1889,
the 7th child; Arthur Sydney b. R. 4.7.1890; William Stacey b. Queen St.
18.1.1893; Clyde b. Queen St. 4.7.1895; Clarice Roy Clara b. Queen St.
13.8.1898, and Eunice Meryl b. Queen St. 22.8.1903 completed this family'

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