James & agnes Disher

[Christine Lockett]

I am looking for decedents of James and Agnes Disher who along with their daughter Elizabeth immigrated to Australia around about 1888-89

[AMBLY]

Hi Christine

As this is posted in the Scotland board, did they have other children who stayed behind in Scotland and so produced descendants in Scotland (of James & Agnes)?

Cheers
AMBLY

[Christine Lockett]

No they didn't leave any living children behind they had twins that they buried.  Just thought that maybe James would of had brothers and sisters as his parents gave him so many 1,000.00 pounds and asked him to leave Scotland.  Story goes that it was because he married Agnes Ross who was a Innkeepers daughter.

Just trying to find something.  James was an Engineer and was told that his father was a Doctor.

[MonicaL]

Hi Christine

Have you tried searching for a marriage in Scotland for James and Agnes?

Monica 

[MonicaL]

Not seeing any marriage for them in Scotland Christine  Searching on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk which is the official pay to view BMD site for Scotland.

Monica

[Christine Lockett]

Hi Monica,

Thanks for doing that I couldn't find one either just thought was looking in wrong place.  That is really puzzling, was told that maybe James Disher was Jewish but the marrage should still be registered.

Their daughter name was Elizabeth Sutherland McKenzie and she was born in 8/3/1887 but I can't find any birth registered either.  Although my Grandmother (Elizabeth) said that she was born in Gateshead that her mother was visiting her father who was working at Gateshead (that's in England yes?)

Thanks again,
Chris

[MonicaL]

Gateshead is in England, in the county of Northumberland.

Just checking for any info on the family. There is a tree on Ancestry which I think may be this line. It shows:

James Disher and Agnes MacDonald Ross (father x Ross, mother Jean MacDonald). Children:

James Disher b. 1886
Ellen Kelvin Disher b. 1888
Adelaide Disher b. 1890  d. 1892
Agnes Disher b. 1892
Thomas Mann Disher b. 1894
Charlotte Disher b. 1898

All births in Queensland. A possible death for Agnes Ross showing as 23 Feb. 1924

No mention of an Elizabeth in the list of children which sort of throws things off line!

Monica

[Christine Lockett]

this is getting stranger my Grandmother was the eldest born in 1887 came to Australia when she was 18 months old.   Not sure if she was 18 months when they left Scotland or when they arrived in Australia there are 5 other children

James, Thomas, May, Dot (not short for Dorothy) Agnes

Thanks for all you help Monica will just have to keep looking.  I can trace my mothers fathers family which is Phillips and when my Grandmother married my Grandfather and when his family (Phillips) arrived in Australia.  It is just the Dishers that are proving hard to trace.

Chris

[MonicaL]

Have you tried searching for the death certs for James and Agnes?

...Waiting for Ambly here to come back on line - she's a whizz on Aussie records and could point the way 

Monica