Australian Electoral Roll

[trish251]

Not sure about husband David, but Nanny and Mary appear to have arrived in 1858
http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=24
GREENWOOD NANNY 27 AUG 1858 AFRICA 11A 210
Mary is showing on another page - a little strange, then there is
GREENWOOD 002 CHILDREN WITH C AUG 1858 AFRICA 11A 210

Trish

Edit: This may be Robert and family
MCCANCE ROBERT 4 FEB 1853 MARION MOORE B 030 012
John 38
Agnes 39
Thos 13
Alexd 11
Martha 6
Robert 4
William 2
Angus 1

[trish251]

I can't find the McCance family in England/Scotland - which may be my bad searching or it may be they came from Ireland. I am having better luck with the Greenwood family

From FreeBDM
Marriages Mar 1850
Greenwood  David    Bradford Y.  23 239  on the same page
Murgatroyd  Nanny
So this would be the family from Yorkshire 
There are many many births in Yorkshire for a Mary Greenwood - no indication on the index which may be the right Mary.

1851 Census  Yorkshire Heaton  HO107/2312 124/12
Jer Lane
David Greenwood head mar 21 Flag Facer (mason) Yorks Heaton
Nancy Greenwood wife Mar 20       "       wife do do

[tigerbelle]

Wow thanks all for those prompt responses, you have all certainly helped me tremendously.

Trish you have come up with some wonderful information and I will look at it and connect all the dots.

Once again thanks and happy hunting!

[trish251]

I asked a friend to check the birthplaces on the marriage

Robert's birthplace is shown as DOWN.
Mary's birthplace is shown as YORKSHIRE

So I would think the McCance family came from County Down in Ireland. The immigration records would probably confirm or correct this.

Trish

[iandann]

Trish,

That's the right family listed on the "Marion Moore" although Thomas (13) & Alexander (11) were actually McMillans (from the first marriage of Agnes, 39) and my g grandmother (Agnes Ann Duggan 1852-93) was listed as "Angus (1)". Others in the extended family on the "Marion Moore" passenger list were the older McMillans,  Hamilton (wife & daughter), John & wife, James & Nathaniel. Only Hamilton & John & their families sailed on the "Marion Moore" though. The McCances &  the four younger McMillans sailed later on the "Confiance" which was quarantined at the heads on arrival at Port Phillip. I don't know what happened to gg granny's left arm though and why she fudged her age down and John (1819-1907) fudged his up, perhaps she felt guilty about being a cradle snatcher!

Ian

[trish251]

Hi Ian

Welcome to Rootschat - I'm sure tigerbelle will be most interested in all your information - but she hasn't been online at RC for awhile (if you click on her name, you can check). Hopefully she will get a notice re your posting so do hope you get in contact with each other

Trish

PS lovely to see Agnes smiling in her photo - I have some from the times & most of the women would never let a smile be seen   

[iandann]

Yes Trish, they didn't have much to smile about then, being mainly baby factories and having to wear all that clobber. Perhaps she's smiling because it'll be all-over soon. Or perhaps another of her 66+ grandchildren (I'm still counting, but like the UK BDM-indexes, WA's are quite challenging, but no censuses to help) had just arrived, and she's thinking "thank God I'm past all that". The paper reported the cause of her daughter's (Agnes Duggan) death as "exhaustion on her accouchement" and that was after her twelth.

Ian