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Australia / Re: John McKANNA (McKenna) & Mary McQUARIE
« on: Sunday 29 August 21 01:08 BST (UK)  »
It is also now believed that the first Mary (b 1815/1816; d 1928 Burnt Bridge @112 years) had been orphaned at the Blackmans Point massacre 1826, and taken in by the Innes family at that time.

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Australia / Re: John McKANNA (McKenna) & Mary McQUARIE
« on: Sunday 29 August 21 01:01 BST (UK)  »
3 pictures

1- The registered brand of Charles McKanna (Ellenborough 1897).

2- On the 14 Apr 1892, Charles had the following land.
60 Acres. Section 26, Parish of Innes, Portion 48

3- This land later became owned by his half-sister, Julia Buckland (maiden name Julia May Macquarie), the wife of James Standage Buckland.

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Australia / Re: John McKANNA (McKenna) & Mary McQUARIE
« on: Sunday 29 August 21 00:43 BST (UK)  »
Mary Evans Macquarie had
1) Julia May Macquarie 1858-1941
then married John McKanna in 1859 and had
2) Margaret McKanna 1859-1942
3) Charles McKanna 1862-1927
4) Mary McKanna 1863-1864
John McKanna passed away in 1863
and she married John Field in 1864 and had
5) Robert Field 1865-1909
6) John Field 1867-1874
7) Christopher Field 1869-1954
8) Susanna Field 1871-
9) Thomas Field 1873-1942
10) Mary Field 1878-
I have full birthdates for all children, and all were baptised at Port Macquarie.

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Australia / Re: Charles McKANNA
« on: Sunday 25 December 16 02:52 GMT (UK)  »
BTW,  Yarras (previously known as Yarrows, was a property owned by Major Innes, before his financial problems) is located in the upper Hastings River valley.
Charles' maternal grandmother worked for Major Innes at his Lake Innes property.
Llanthony (a property located at Bagnoo & along the Hastings River), where Mary was working prior to marrying John McKenne/McKanna, was owned by the Browning family, friends of Major Innes.

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Australia / Re: Charles McKANNA
« on: Sunday 25 December 16 02:41 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Rob,

Charles McKanna is my great great uncle.
I didn't know much about him or his siblings until earlier this year.

May I ask what your connection to him is?

kind regards
Robert

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Dumfriesshire / Re: Dr William Bell Carlyle
« on: Saturday 06 June 15 00:44 BST (UK)  »
I would also appreciate any help on his birthdate. He is my great great great grandfather, but no relatives seem to have this bit of information.

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Australia / Re: John McKANNA (McKenna) & Mary McQUARIE
« on: Friday 29 May 15 00:11 BST (UK)  »
Attached is the memorial for Mary Evans Macquarie, published in the newspaper by her daughter Julia Buckland.

I wonder if Mary and Charles kept in touch at all??

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Australia / Re: John McKANNA (McKenna) & Mary McQUARIE
« on: Thursday 28 May 15 11:03 BST (UK)  »
"From 1843 to 1848, Annabella and her mother and sister lived with her uncle, Archibald Innes"
 source "Female genteel class in colonial Port Macquarie" Nov 16  by frankdyball
If this is correct, then neither niece was still at the Innes abode to be a sponsor at the time of the baptisms.

I do have Annabella Boswell's Journal, and now Recollections of Some Australian Blacks, neither of which has been read completely as I have trouble concentrating for long periods.  Yet to get my own copy of Annabella Boswell's Other Journal.

Thanks for your speedy reply!
Kind regards, Robert

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Australia / Re: John McKANNA (McKenna) & Mary McQUARIE
« on: Wednesday 27 May 15 14:54 BST (UK)  »
Mary Evans Macquarie is my great great grandmother.
Her burial was at Ellenborough.
Her sponsor at Baptism was the Misses Innes (ie the wife of Major Innes, and not Misses Jones as supplied by Debra)
As passed down from my grandparents, it was understood that Mary's mother was also called Mary, a local Aboriginal native that was taken in and worked in the Innes household as a house servant. Major Innes may have fathered Mary Evans Macquarie. (and siblings)
Both Mary Evans Macquarie and Elizabeth Macquarie were baptised the same day, the surname understood to be provided by the Misses Innes, in sequential numbering in church records. And their abode was Lake Innes.
Alice Macquarie was baptised 5 weeks later, who I believe is also their sibling (birthdate unknown, supposed 1842.  Although her abode states Huntington Hastings River (sic Huntingdon), and her sponsors were Mrs and Miss Gray.
All three girls have dashes in place of fathers name, with the mother listed as Aboriginal Native on the church records.
In 1852 Major Innes was appointed an Assistant Commissioner for Crown Lands.  At some point he apparently arranged for Mary Evans Macquarie to he a house servant for the Browning family on their property "Llanthony", where she later had a daughter Julia. and a year later married John McKenne (or McKenna).
For at least the last 16 years of her life, and probably longer she resided with her daughter and son-in-law at their property "Toms Creek"

Kind regards Robert

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