miles mcinnes on arrivals from australia

[karenoz]

hi girls,
i got letter back from Marjorie and she rack her brains over the weekend and only could remember hearing her grandfather dieing about 1915 but couldnt say where in sydney or mel bourne dunedin.

well done Meg, it all fits :-)

i wander where this Alice fits in?

thanks

[Meg7]

Hi Karen and Lu,

Yes, it does make sense and the name Bernard in Lee's family and the Romsey bit.  So we know for certain that John's children had contact with Lachlan Campbell McInnes's family because they added Bernard in their names and some of their uncles and aunts because of the Romsey bit. (I tried to take a photo of the photo of Sarah as the book is out of print but it didn't really come out so I need to get a good copy of it somehow.) 

So Myles Murdoch Lachlan McInnes got his wife's father's name as his father and Betty's son thought the mother had died when his father was a school boy but it was his father. Glad we are not researching Smith 

That entry says Myles M.; should have realized.

Alice well, I guess Betty thought I was Alice ringing to what had happened to her letter and that is why she mentioned it.

If Alice is on the right track there is some else out there looking for your family Karen.

Meg.

[karenoz]

hi Meg,

so bernard is on both sides, cause bernard was maria myles mothers father was bernard quinn died in young in 1849.

thanks
karen

[Lucy2]

Hi Karen and Meg

Well ... there's only the death of John McINNES to find now.
Is that right ?   

Hmmm ... inclined to go with Karen,  on the "Bernard" name coming from the QUINN side of the family ?   

Lu

[Meg7]

Hi Karen and Lu,

Yes it must come from the Quinn line.  But the fact that one of the other McInnes children used it suggests, to me, that they had had contact with Lachlan Campbell McInnes. 

Hey John used the name Godfrey from that family in naming one son so them using Bernard makes sense.

As you said Lu now to find John's death.

If nothing comes out of the Randwick home it might be worth getting a transcript of Myles Murdoch's death certificate just to see if there is any information that can be used.

Meg.

[karenoz]

on john mcinnes

think the answers lie in balranald somewhere.

i dont think we would find anything on myles m death as he hasnt even put down his mother and has his father down as bernard, think i better trying godfreys death seeing he was older brother.
great going tho.

karen

[Meg7]

Hi Karen,

I sincerely hope Myles didn't fill out his own death certificate.  Good point about the mother's name missing. Blanche probably gave the information anyway.  I just thought being in Sydney there might have been relatives around or he might have been buried with family members and if we had the date we might be able to look for notices in the newspapers or other graves.

Still think wait and see if there is any information in the home records.

It is possible that Ernest had a third name and used that and this is why we can't find him. 

Meg.

[Lucy2]

So Myles Murdoch Lachlan McInnes got his wife's father's name 

OK what I got was she thought her dead husband's father was Lachlan.

Later after much talk she went and got her marriage certificate and it was Myles Murdoch and he seems to have had a third given name and it could be Laclan but she said it was too hard to read (the first two were clear but whoever wrote it was running out of space so he squashed the third name up).

Hi Karen and Meg

Sorry          ... but  I have to disagree with this new theory, that Myles Murdoch McINNES had a third christian name.

If he did, then he never used it.     It's not recorded at his birth, nor on his NZ marriage record or the births of his children in NZ .   Neither does a third name appear for him in directory listings (NZ) ... and (if that's his death in 1928 - NSW) then again  ... he's just plain Myles M.   

The only place "Lachlan" crops up, is on his son's marriage cert.  (but then that is also doubtful, because the name is difficult to decipher).

It is possible that Ernest had a third name and used that and this is why we can't find him. 

Yes ... anything's possible, but I am still more inclined to think that Ernest was adopted out when he was a very small babe (and was given a new identity).   He was born sometime between the last quarter of 1876 and July 1877, when his older siblings were placed at Randwick.    That institution quite probably did not accept very young children, hence Myles and Ernest were separated from their siblings.

Lu

[karenoz]

hi girls,

i found ernest in the anc----   living in victoria from 1914-1936
                                             a death for a ernest in 1951 and another in 1968 in vic.

there is also one for a ernest john mcinnes in QLD capricrnia in 1936.

can anyone check these out.

i keep thinking maybe he died with his father in some horrified accident in balranald.

karen