Well I have had a very interesting read this morning of all your comments and learned much about my extended MacIntosh (Highlander spelling) or McIntosh family! I googled my cousin Archibald McIntosh of Stawell, and up came all your posts! Archibald McIntosh was born in 1813 to John McIntosh and Catherine Murchieson on the Isle of Skye. He had one brother Samuel and one sister Catherine. Samuel remained a bachelor and Catherine married a John Lamont in 1848 and they had one daughter Catherine around 1849. Catherine married Allan Macleod in 1882 and they had 6 children, all born in Snizort North (Parish).
Archibald's father John McIntosh was born around 1780 to Archibald Macintosh and Catherine Nicolson on the Isle of Skye. John had 8 brothers and sisters, one of which was Marion Macintosh and she was my great great great grandmother! Most of the children were born in Snizort Parish.
John and Marion's brother Angus McIntosh followed his nephew Archibald out to the Colony of Victoria in 1853 on the NEW ZEALANDER. He and his wife, another Catherine Nicolson, had 8 children, also born in Snizort Parish.
Angus eventually settled in Branxholme, near Hamilton in Victoria. Some of the children married Mathiesons and some married Macdonalds. One married a Bethune and one married a Cotter!
In the meantime, my Marion's son, Charles Finlayson, made his way out to the Colony in 1857 on the MALDON, with his wife Marion McDougall. After working in the Geelong area for 2 years to pay off their passage out, they settled outside Ballarat in the Clunes area. They had 9 children! Charles and Marion are buried with Marion's brother Alexander in the Coghills Creek Cemetery where many many Skye people are buried. But their's is another story!
Great stuff Julia P. and Cando!!! Diane in Bendigo, formerly Sandhurst.
