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From: "Thelma" <>
Subject: [AUS-VIC-West] Robert Brand Paterson
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:40:44 +1000


Thanks Colin for your kind words. I have had a busy weekend and hope to get
a little more done quite soon. For now Thelma.
The Paterson I speak of is ROBERT BRAND PATERSON who married 1861 to Mary
Jane AITKIN out of V.D.L. He was Manager of the Bank of Victoria in
Warrnambool and (I think) first President of the Warrnambool Shire Council
c.1863 ?
He went into partnership in Manifold and Bostock Stores after the death of
my Gr.Grandfather George Bostock in 1858. The store was on the site of the
present day Art Gallery in Warrnambool. Mary Jane Aitkin was a sister to the
three Aitkin girls who married Augustus, Ernest and James Bostock over 15
years. All the Aitkin girls Margaret, Lucy, Alice and Mary Jane were
daughter of Mary Meacock (Manifold) Aitkin. That same Bond Store manifold
and Bostock became Aitkin and Paterson and other family names over time - on
the corner of Liebig and Timor Street Warrnambool - now opposite the Council
Chambers.
To our knowledge Robert Brand Paterson had one son R.B.P who died 1919 and a
daughter called Little Maggie. Mary Jane Paterson 1837/1867 aged 30 years.

Until I get back to Mr.Alexander Thomson......Thelma (Bostock) Birrell in
Queensland.

Cox Upjohn Hervey - www.angelfire.com/rnb/mrbirrell/
Bostock Rafferty Rhodes http://birrell.1hwy.com/index.htm
Bostock all links www.ozemail.com.au/~mrbirrell/
>I have to say that I too enjoy reading your stories. In this one tyou
>mention the name Paterson that happens to be my research into my ancestors.
>I have a James Paterson who married Annie McKillop they apparently lived in
>Warrnambool and produced 3 kids there they also had 2 born in Melbourne. I
>am eager to find out more about them so I am wondering if they could be the
>same family you mention in this email.
>----- > It is good to read about the links between these families as it is
>very common indeed in those early days of the colonies. Van Diemen's Land
>> families especially, created a lot of links with families who also came
to
>>Western Districts. I could name a host of them myself, who married into
>the Bostock, Mackersey, Aitkin, Ware, Paterson, Manifold, King, Doveton,
>>Connolly, Cox, Archer, Winter, Chiene, McKinnon, Austin, Chirnside,
>Strachan & Shannon and other families. It sure helps to build a picture of
the
>> 'state' at that time


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