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From: Elizabeth McMillan <>
Subject: [AUS-VIC-WESTERN-DISTRICT] McMillan, McDonald, Lamont, McEachern
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:27:01 -1100
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Dear Listers

I am continuing to search for famiily connections to the families
below. At the present time, I am working in Samoa and have no access
to broadband for searching, but am continuing to do some via a slow
dial up connection. It is a while since I put this family on the
list and so thought that I would do so again, in case there are any
new members who might have some information or benefit from what I
have provided.

Archibald MACMILLAN and Flora McINTYRE (from Oskamull, Mull,
Scotland) came with their children to Portland Victoria Australia on
the New Zealander in 1853. From that time and in some records in
Scotland, the family is referred to as McMILLAN.

Their son John (23) who is my great grandfather married Margaret
McDONALD in Digby, Vic in 1864 (she also came on the New Zealander
with her parents, but they came from Skye). Some records have John
McMILLAN born in Ulva, but the Parish of Ulva does in fact take in
Oskamull which was a village in Mull.

The other children who came with Archibald and Flora MACMILLAN on the
New Zealander were: Anne, Christy and Alexander. I have not been able
to trace what happened to Alexander. It seems that there was another
son Angus who came to Australia, but did not travel with them at that
time. I have not located the ship on which he came, or his records in
Australia. There were two other daughters who remained in Mull –
Mary and Sarah (Marion) who married Neil MacLean and lived in
Ballygown in Mull. I have not yet traced Mary.

I have searched for a McINTYRE family connection in Australia, and
have found Dugald and Duncan McIntyre attending a burial of the son
of John and Margaret McMillan (nee McDonald), but have no other
information on Flora McIntyre's family in Mull (or perhaps from
somewhere else in Argyll or perhaps even further away eg Inverness),
or whether they came to Australia or not.

Margaret McDONALD's parents were John McDONALD (brother of Hector
McDONALD – Mac’s Hotel, Portland) and Flora LAMONT from Calnacnoc,
Skye. They were married in Snizort, Inverness, Scotland in 1838. I
have no other information on Flora LAMONT (1818 – 1878). Sometimes
her name is LAMOND and sometimes LAMONT.

My great grandparents – John McMILLAN and Margaret McDONALD (married
in CofE, Digby in 1864) had a number of children. Their children were
John Angus, Hector; Charles Alexander; Murdoch Alexander; David;
Archibald John; Angus John; Margaret Ann; Flora Ann.

I have not researched the McDONALD family as yet and am not sure if
there were any other family members from the LAMONT family who came
to Victoria other than Flora..

My grandfather John Angus McMILLAN (married Florence McGUINESS at
Hotspur in 1909). The marriage record states that Florence was
adopted by Elizabeth McGUINESS. Her birth certificate says that she
was born in Bridport Street, South Melbourne in 1883. At the time of
her marriage she was living in Hotspur, Victoria. I have not been
able to trace Elizabeth McGuiness. Any information on Elizabeth
McGUINESS who adopted my grandmother Florence McGUINESS (born - 1883;
married 1909; died 1971) and the circumstances of that adoption would
be appreciated. Florence’s birth certificate states that she was the
child of Annie Jane McEACHERN who subsequently moved from Branxholme,
Victoria Australia to NZ with her widowed mother, and other siblings
when her father Angus McEACHERN passed away. I have one report that
says that, before they left for NZ, they moved to Geelong for a short
period of time. Annie had a second child before the family moved to
NZ named Elsie Dolores (1890-92) who died in the Children’s Hospital
in Melbourne.
The McEACHERN family in NZ remained in contact with Florence and her
husband John McMILLAN visited them. I have traced the McEACHERN
family to Gore in Soutlhland New Zealand. Annie married Michael
REGAN there (1894) and had three children. Sadly only one of these
children lived to adulthood – Angus George REGAN who married Mary
Jane MILLER in NZ in 1932.

Angus McEACHERN (Annie's father) sailed with his father (Hugh), wife
Ann (nee McDONALD) and their family from Tobermory on 28th October
1838 on board the vessel ‘British King’ bound for Australia arriving
at Sydney on 1st March 1839. They were from Movern. On arrival some
members of the family (Angus included ?) were engaged to work on
Macarthur’s Station at Yass. The family remained there until 1846
when they overlanded to Victoria settling in the Casterton district.
Hugh married twice – Mary Margaret STEWART (Children – Angus,
William, Duncan, John ‘Long John;, Margaret, Johanna, Malcolm
Stewart, Archibald, Catherine Livingstone and Sarah) and then Mary
Ann CAMPBELL (Children - Jane and John).

I have a reasonable amount of information about the later
generations, and would willingly share records with others. I am
interested in tracing the history of the streams of this family in
Scotland, and widening my coverage of those in Australia and elsewhere.

Thank you for any assistance that you can give me.
Regards
Libby ()



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