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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Paisley Emigration Society – Scottish Colonisation Company.
« on: Monday 07 April 25 04:02 BST (UK) »
Thank you for all the wonderful information/links etc. Wonderful.
George is a bit of an anomaly, however, it's actually his daughter (my great-great-great grandmother) Margaret Byron that I am searching for. All our family information has been passed down through her, but because she was illiterate there appears to be a lack of documentation to support our understanding of our past. The family bible indicates she was born 1828 and we do know she died 2/6/1919 in Hamilton Australia with George Byron listed as her father and mother unknown. The following is the family story:
-Supposedly a direct descendant of Lord Byron (I'm positive this isn't true from a quick search). Born Glasgow but reared in Paisley.
-Parents owned a Dye Works and she had a younger son William or George William, who later migrated to San Francisco.
-Gave birth to first son, Kenneth Alexander Mathieson, baptised 21 September 1849 according to Baptismal Register with no mother listed just Kenneth Mathieson as father. The date contradicts known birthday in family bible as 15/10/1849) to my great-great-great grandfather Kenneth Mathieson (1811-1861) Shipbuilder and early settler who arrived 1841 onboard his ship the Clydeside (further information gathered through the Onslow Historian - Early Kiawarra Again and other searches).
-Daughter Isabella Mathieson b.29/10/1851 (no documentation)
-Left NZ for Aust around 1852 (surmised) with the children (Cpt Kenneth Mathieson was possibly already in Aust) family legend was he died at sea, but we have since found he died in a gold mine accident in 1861 at Ovens Diggings, VIC.
-Margaret married Captain Richard William Green, to whom she had another 3 boys, at Raymond Terrace, NSW, and after his death (1862) moved to Hamilton, NSW to care for Kenneth Alexander's four boys after their mother died, the 2nd eldest being my great grandfather Kenneth Alexander Mathieson Jnr.
Any help would be gratefully received,
Kind regards,
Lynda
George is a bit of an anomaly, however, it's actually his daughter (my great-great-great grandmother) Margaret Byron that I am searching for. All our family information has been passed down through her, but because she was illiterate there appears to be a lack of documentation to support our understanding of our past. The family bible indicates she was born 1828 and we do know she died 2/6/1919 in Hamilton Australia with George Byron listed as her father and mother unknown. The following is the family story:
-Supposedly a direct descendant of Lord Byron (I'm positive this isn't true from a quick search). Born Glasgow but reared in Paisley.
-Parents owned a Dye Works and she had a younger son William or George William, who later migrated to San Francisco.
-Gave birth to first son, Kenneth Alexander Mathieson, baptised 21 September 1849 according to Baptismal Register with no mother listed just Kenneth Mathieson as father. The date contradicts known birthday in family bible as 15/10/1849) to my great-great-great grandfather Kenneth Mathieson (1811-1861) Shipbuilder and early settler who arrived 1841 onboard his ship the Clydeside (further information gathered through the Onslow Historian - Early Kiawarra Again and other searches).
-Daughter Isabella Mathieson b.29/10/1851 (no documentation)
-Left NZ for Aust around 1852 (surmised) with the children (Cpt Kenneth Mathieson was possibly already in Aust) family legend was he died at sea, but we have since found he died in a gold mine accident in 1861 at Ovens Diggings, VIC.
-Margaret married Captain Richard William Green, to whom she had another 3 boys, at Raymond Terrace, NSW, and after his death (1862) moved to Hamilton, NSW to care for Kenneth Alexander's four boys after their mother died, the 2nd eldest being my great grandfather Kenneth Alexander Mathieson Jnr.
Any help would be gratefully received,
Kind regards,
Lynda