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Australia / Re: This is a treasure hunt - "Help me find Jane?"
« on: Tuesday 20 February 18 00:45 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks Liz for all your information. Will await any further info.
Cheers.....Bob
Cheers.....Bob
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Australia / Re: This is a treasure hunt - "Help me find Jane?"
« on: Saturday 27 January 18 00:57 GMT (UK) »
G'day and thanks Liz.
My main interest in Gillespie is that Jane married John after the death of James MacKay, captain of the ship SEA. I am writing a book about the SEA. James left the SEA anchored off Shortlands Bluff [Queenscliff], went to Melbourne with Jane, I believe, but returned to the SEA about 6 days later. Not sober and without Jane, he ordered the SEA to be made ready to sail, stating only that 'he would show them what the SEA could do'! Later that evening the SEA was totally wrecked on Nepean Reef at the 'Heads' of Port Philip Bay, killing himself and seventeen other hands.
Why was Jane not with James when he returned to the SEA?
Have any stories been handed down through the Gillespie family about Jane and James?
There is a lot more to be told about the Sea and those involved with her while she was in Melbourne in 1853, and the James/Jane story will assist make it an even more interesting story!
I wonder if there are family stories that have survived the years?
any assistance will be appreciated.
cheers...........Bob
My main interest in Gillespie is that Jane married John after the death of James MacKay, captain of the ship SEA. I am writing a book about the SEA. James left the SEA anchored off Shortlands Bluff [Queenscliff], went to Melbourne with Jane, I believe, but returned to the SEA about 6 days later. Not sober and without Jane, he ordered the SEA to be made ready to sail, stating only that 'he would show them what the SEA could do'! Later that evening the SEA was totally wrecked on Nepean Reef at the 'Heads' of Port Philip Bay, killing himself and seventeen other hands.
Why was Jane not with James when he returned to the SEA?
Have any stories been handed down through the Gillespie family about Jane and James?
There is a lot more to be told about the Sea and those involved with her while she was in Melbourne in 1853, and the James/Jane story will assist make it an even more interesting story!
I wonder if there are family stories that have survived the years?
any assistance will be appreciated.
cheers...........Bob
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Australia / Re: This is a treasure hunt - "Help me find Jane?"
« on: Friday 19 January 18 01:44 GMT (UK) »
G'day All
I wonder if Liz is still about re her husbands Gillespie connection information?
I may have inadvertently started this thread with my research into the ship SEA and James MacKay, who married Jane Taylor in 1853 in Melbourne then got himself killed in the wreck of his ship the SEA a few days after his marriage to Jane. Jane then married John Gillespie.
I was wondering if any stories may have been handed down through the family re Janes marriage to MacKay, and any reasons why she was not on the SEA with her husband when it sailed for Callao in Peru, and was wrecked on Nepean Reef, Port Philip Bay on May 31st 1853?
Bob
I wonder if Liz is still about re her husbands Gillespie connection information?
I may have inadvertently started this thread with my research into the ship SEA and James MacKay, who married Jane Taylor in 1853 in Melbourne then got himself killed in the wreck of his ship the SEA a few days after his marriage to Jane. Jane then married John Gillespie.
I was wondering if any stories may have been handed down through the family re Janes marriage to MacKay, and any reasons why she was not on the SEA with her husband when it sailed for Callao in Peru, and was wrecked on Nepean Reef, Port Philip Bay on May 31st 1853?
Bob
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Ross & Cromarty / George MacKenzie of Brae of Easter Kinkell, 1820
« on: Saturday 19 February 11 03:55 GMT (UK) »
Looking for the birth of George MacKenzie who married Christian MacDonald on June 15th, 1820. George was a crofter when married, and living at Brae of Easter Kinkell in 1823 when his son James was born. Any information or advice would be appreciated. Bob in Oz
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