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Lanarkshire / Re: William McElwee b. 1837 Glasgow immigrated to Aus in 1857
« on: Monday 27 April 15 01:45 BST (UK)  »
My mistake. 21 years in 1858.

Hi tabx,

Can you clarify his birth year please

“Born in Glasgow in March, 1837, ….. arriving Feb 1858 (aged 31)”

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Lanarkshire / Re: William McElwee b. 1837 Glasgow immigrated to Aus in 1857
« on: Monday 27 April 15 01:43 BST (UK)  »
Hi Margaret,

I'm so glad you replied - I will email you.

I finally have found William's parents.  They are Joseph McElwee and Janet Lorimer.  I will send you what other info I have.  I can not find them on the census, I suspect because McElwee is spelt (and misspelt) so many different ways.

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Lanarkshire / William McElwee b. 1837 Glasgow immigrated to Aus in 1857
« on: Tuesday 21 February 12 09:11 GMT (UK)  »
I'm trying to find any information about my great-great-grandfather William McElwee who immigrated to Tasmania from Scotland.

Here is the information I have, mostly gleaned from newspaper articles on his retirement and death:

Born in Glasgow in March, 1837, the late Mr. McElwee received a sound education in his native city, and served his time to the plumbing trade.

Recruited in Glasgow Oct 1857 by Mr Fleming on behalf of Mr Falconer (Falconer arrived in Tas in 1857 for Hobart City Council via Melb on Red Jacket, his staff and equipment straight to Tas on John Bell, Fleming was then recruited by Launceston City Council)

William McElwee sailed from Liverpool to Melbourne on Shooting Star arriving Feb 1858 (aged 31). Sailed from Melb to Launceston on Black Swan (Captain Wood)

Started working in Feb 1858

Retired and sailed to England on 20 April 1907 returning in Nov 1907 (to Melb) with his son Allan Penman on Ortona.

The only other clues I have as to his background are from the names of his two youngest sons who were twins.  One was named Allen Penman McElwee, Penman being the mother's maiden name and Allen being the maternal grandmother's maiden name.  The other was named Roger Ayton Lorimer McElwee.  I can't help but think that if one twin son was named after his mother's side of the family then possibly the other was named after the father's side of the family.  Also Lorimer was the middle name of one of the other sons, so I think it must be significant in some way.

Thank you for any help or advice you can give me.



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He is NOT these William McElwees:

In the 1841 census there is a William McElwee and a William McIlwee of about the right age.  One is a son of Cormick (b. Ireland) and Ann McElwee but Cormick is a shoemaker, and William becomes one too and is on the censuses upto and including 1891 as such.  William McIlwee is also a shoemaker from a family of shoemakers (father Alan is also born in Ireland).  On the 1851 census a William McElhoes with father Alexander (shoemakers from Ireland again) appears, but this seems to be the same family as the McIlwees of 1841.

There is also another William McElwee who came to Australia, settling in Victoria, in 1856.  He put a notice in the newspaper searching for his sister Hannah who came out before him, and it says in that notice she's from Ballyshannon in Ireland.  I can trace his movements in Australia, and he didn't come to Tasmania.

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Australia / Re: francis edward DOUGLASS
« on: Friday 26 August 11 09:35 BST (UK)  »
Well that Elizabeth Maddox's history seems to be well known and documented - now I have to re-start the search for my Elizabeth Maddox - and I can't find anything at all :(  No convict record, not listed on Liz Rushen's Female Migration website.  I'm wondering if Maddox could have been a married name, but even then I can't find someone suitable.  And Samuel's first wife, Elizabeth Authorn (possibly Athorn? but seems to be Hawthorne on her death record) is equally difficult to track down.

You seem to have a lot of info already susiet, but I'll mention it just in case you'd missed it somehow - had you found the convict history for William Smith?

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Australia / Re: francis edward DOUGLASS
« on: Thursday 25 August 11 03:48 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your reply.  I don't hold out much hope for the death certificate because the online record has her parents' names in those fields.  I'm thinking if she did have a second husband named Dutton, he may have died before her and hence she was living near/with her family again in Ballarat and it was they who gave the information for her death certificate.

I also haven't found a record of her and Samuel Hall actually marrying.  On the Tasmanian Colonial Database their "marriage" in 1862 is just based on their having a child together.  There's no record of her marrying on the Tasmanian Pioneers Index.

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Australia / Re: francis edward DOUGLASS
« on: Wednesday 24 August 11 16:05 BST (UK)  »
Rebecca Chipperfield and John Gale Maddox had a daughter named Elizabeth baptised on 4th December 1830 in Launceston.

Presumably this is the same Elizabeth as mentioned on the first page of this thread:
DUTTON Elizabeth Jane
Father Maddox John Gale  Mother Rebecca CHIPPERFIELD
69 years  at Ballarat East  1897  Reg#11293

Does anyone know who her husband was?

I have her in Tasmania with Samuel Arthur Hall (bearing his children) from 1862 to 1875.  He died in 1878.  Wondering if she remarried in Tasmania or Victoria or elsewhere.

Thanks for any info.  Their son Arthur Gresley Hall is my g-g-grandfather.

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