Alan Steward

[jancol]

Hi All
I am trying to helping a friend find informstion on her g/grandparents
any help would be wonderful
I hope I have this posted in the right place.
What I have is (not much)
 Sarah Steward
Birth: 1841 Glentromie, Scotland
Death: 1895 N, S, W, Australia
Spouse: William John Douch
her father
Andrew STEWART
Birth: 22 June1805 in Invertromie, Scotland
 Death: 7 March 1859 in Tyrvine, Cathcart, NSW
 married   Margaret E. CAMERON
Andrew's
father Allan STEWART Mother: Margaret MCKAY
anything would be a great help
Thank you
jan

[KirstyG]

Hi Jan

The date you have for the birth of Andrew Stewart 22nd of June 1805 is actually his Christening date (from an extracted entry from the parish records on the IGI) and his mother is named as Marjory Mackay. It took place in Kingussie and Insch, Inverness, Scotland.

Andrew Stewart married Margaret Cameron 11th of June 1831 Kingussie and Insch, Inverness, Scotland.

They had several children (from IGI extracted)

John b May 1832 ch June 1832
Henry b October 1833 ch February 1834
Allan b November 1835 ch January 1836
Isabel b March 1838 ch March 1838

Scotlands People has no record of Sarah Stewart* with father Andrew 1835 - 1850 in the whole of Scotland.
*with soundex on

I'll go and have a hunt in the census records.


Kirsty

[jancol]

Hi Kirsty
Thank you so much for the information, I didn't have much to go on, so any and every bit helps
Jan

[KirstyG]

Interestingly someone else has a family tree online for this family, but they have William John Douch marrying a Sarah Stewart who was born in Bombala NSW Australia.

http://family.soane.net/individual.php?pid=P3627225148&ged=Soane%20Perugini%2022%204%2009.ged

Although the source for this info seems to be a submitted tree on Ancestry.

It is always best to start with the most recent provable event (such as a death) and work backwards using certificates and verified sources to do so. Do you know where your friend got the information you posted?

Kirsty

[KirstyG]

I have just come across another website dedicated to this family.

http://www.monaropioneers.com/douch-j.htm

It would seem that Sarah Stewart was the daughter of an Andrew Stewart and Margaret Cameron, according to the marriage certificate presumably, but they too have her as born in 1841 in Monaro District, NSW.

However there is no matching record in the NSW BMDs.

This is a real puzzle!

[jancol]

Hi Kirsty
Once again I must thank you very much for your help
It is quite interesting  there is no matching record in the NSW BMDs, something to look into. I am looking forward to looking into the links you posted
Many Thanks for your wonderful help
jan

[Jamjar]

774/1859      Douch      William John      Stewart     Sarah      SYDNEY    Marriage

Their 6 children were born in Bombala

Lots of their family's deaths in Bombala, also.

2557/1859      Stewart     Andrew     51 YEARS      BOMBALA    No mother/father listed

5097/1875      Stewart     Margaret      Henry      Ellen      BOMBALA   

Jamjar

[Jamjar]

It would appear that Andrew and Margaret had 4 more children once in Oz. However, I can't find them in NSW shipping records.  Wonder if someone else can. If you find that, you will know if Sarah was born out of Australia.

Bombala is on the NSW/VIC border, so maybe they came into VIC

[jancol]

hi jamjar
Thank you very much for the information. It gives us something new to look into
jan