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Isle of Man Lookup Requests / Re: Isle of Man passenger lists to Australia
« on: Monday 19 October 15 13:57 BST (UK)  »
Hi Frances,

Mary Elizabeth McVey's parents were supposedly John Macvee and Mary Elizabeth Macgee (according to her marriage certificate). I think 1845/46 is most likely when she was born although one record puts her birth year about 1836.

Mary's maiden name is sometimes recorded as McVey/Mackvea/McVeigh, Smith McVey and sometimes just Smith. I'm not sure why. She was a spinster when she married in Australia in 1866.

She supposedly arrived in Australia about 1863.

Cheers, Anne

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Isle of Man Lookup Requests / Re: Isle of Man passenger lists to Australia
« on: Monday 12 October 15 14:19 BST (UK)  »
Hi Diane,

Unfortunately I hit a road block with Mary McVeigh/McVey. I've searched all the passenger lists arriving in Melbourne around the time she supposedly arrived. I don't even know if she came with her parents (John and Mary) or by herself.

Her last name is sometimes recorded as Smith so I was planning to search through all the original passenger microfiche for all the Mary Smiths - a big job which I have been putting off. 

However, I did find a record of Mary arriving in Western Australia from Victoria after her husband, William Otto Schwennesen had died in 1893. She arrived in Albany with her youngest son Theo (Theodore) on the 'Adelaide' from Melbourne on 8 April 1897. Theo 'Nugget' died in 1935 and is buried in the Northcliffe Pioneer Cemetery.

Cheers, Anne

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Isle of Man Lookup Requests / Re: Isle of Man passenger lists to Australia
« on: Monday 06 January 14 11:57 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the tips everyone. No luck so far but I'll keep looking.

Cheers, Anne

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Isle of Man Lookup Requests / Re: Isle of Man passenger lists to Australia
« on: Saturday 04 January 14 11:02 GMT (UK)  »
I wondered if Mary’s parents had remarried also. On a couple of her children’s birth certificates in Australia her name is recorded as “Mary Elizabeth Smith” and one record has her name as “Mary Elizabeth Smith McVey” .

I’ve not been able to find a birth/baptism certificate for her in the IoM or Ireland. I did find a marriage of John McVey and Mary Magee in Co. Down, Ireland but the date is 1860.

Is there any record of Mary Smith (b. 1845) in the 1851 or 1861 IoM census? Or  a marriage of McVey and Smith?

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Isle of Man Lookup Requests / Re: Isle of Man passenger lists to Australia
« on: Saturday 04 January 14 06:26 GMT (UK)  »
She married in Victoria, 8 Feb 1866.

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Isle of Man Lookup Requests / Re: Isle of Man passenger lists to Australia
« on: Saturday 04 January 14 02:50 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks Steve. Do you know if passenger lists exist for these ports?

Anne

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Isle of Man Lookup Requests / Isle of Man passenger lists to Australia
« on: Friday 03 January 14 12:41 GMT (UK)  »
I'm been trying to locate an ancestor of mine who was supposedly born in the Isle of Man and migrated to Australia sometime between 1860 and 1866.

I’ve not been able to locate her on the incoming passenger lists for Australia so wondered if I could find her leaving the IOM.

What ports would she have travelled via to get to Australia and do passenger lists exist from these ports?

My ancestor's details:
Mary Elizabeth McVey (or McVey Smith)
Born about 1845, IOM
Father = John McVee (farmer)
Mother = Mary Elizabeth Macgee
Married in Australia in 1866

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Isle of Man Lookup Requests / Looking for Mary Elizabeth Smith (or McVey) on 1851 census
« on: Sunday 18 March 12 02:03 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, I’m trying to locate this ancestor. The only information I have is that she arrived in Australia about 1863 but I’ve not been able to find any record of her arrival.

Her marriage certificate in Australia says she was born in the Isle of Mann about 1845 although other records suggest she could have been born as early as 1836. She was Roman Catholic.

Her marriage certificate records her father as John Muckvee (farmer) and her mother as Mary Elizabeth Macgee. The ‘Smith’ maiden name appears on some of her children’s birth certificates so I’m not sure what has happened there - a stepfather perhaps? She was a spinster when she married.

I’m hoping the family is on the 1851 census. Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers, Anne

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Banffshire / Re: Baptisms designed after Lady Deskford and James Olgivie
« on: Monday 23 January 12 14:06 GMT (UK)  »
They certainly did cover their bases didn’t they! It sounds like the local gentry were well regarded.

The parents of my Mary (b. 1760), James (b. 1761) and John (b. 1765) were James Coull and Elspeth Wiseman – married 1759 Cullen. They were weavers. I haven’t been able to get back further than that but it’s quite likely they are related to your Coull family.

Cheers, Anne

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