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| − | Margaret (Gellatly) and her husband [[Alexander McKenzie Allen]] had emigrated from [[Scotland]] on the [[Flora]] in 1852. | + | Margaret (Gellatly) and her husband [[Alexander McKenzie Allen]] had emigrated from [[Scotland]] on the [[Flora]] in 1852. Margaret died of facial cancer on 4 January 1862.<ref>Information from Maureen Stapleton, 19 July 2018.</ref> |
==Goldfields Involvement, 1854== | ==Goldfields Involvement, 1854== | ||
Revision as of 12:40, 19 July 2018
Contents
Background
Margaret (Gellatly) and her husband Alexander McKenzie Allen had emigrated from Scotland on the Flora in 1852. Margaret died of facial cancer on 4 January 1862.[1]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
They were in Ballarat at the time of Eureka.
Post 1854 Experiences
The family lived on the east side of Ballarat West where Alexander worked as a tailor.[2]
Family
Alexander and Margaret had six children, three born in Australia:
1. Margaret Ann Allen (birth unknown. Died 18 April 1854 at Eureka). There is a headstone at the Ballaarat Old Cemetery that reads "Erected by Lex and Margaret Allen - Margaret Ann who met with a premature death at Eureka on 18 April 1854 aged 11 years.[3]
2. Elizabeth (Born Perth, Scotland. Married Digory Penrose Roberts, and they had 16 children)[4]
3.
4. Esther Ann (Born Ballarat 1855. Married Robert Grant in 1874)[5];
5. Georgina Rennie (Born 1858 Ballarat. Married John Zehan Phillips in 1881)[6];
6. Mary Bathgate (Born 1861 Ballarat. Married Alexander Rae in 1881)[7]. [8]
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
- ↑ Information from Maureen Stapleton, 19 July 2018.
- ↑ Information from Maureen Stapleton, 19 July 2018.
- ↑ Information from Maureen Stapleton, 19 July 2018.
- ↑ Information from Maureen Stapleton, 19 July 2018.
- ↑ Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
- ↑ Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
- ↑ Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
- ↑ Dorothy Wickham, Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2009.
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