Birth check

[Aussie Chris]

Thank you Merlin and Sashar I think that's correct.Oral family history can be a bit askew sometimes. Chris.

[SASHAR]

Hi Chris,

I can't see that ANY of the children's births were registered from 1842 in SA.
They may have been baptised and used those certificates as proof of age if necessary.   A lot of Catholic births are not registered, I'm not sure about Presbyterian (which is the religious denomination on Bio Index for this family which I posted previously).

Good luck with your research,
Sashar

[cando]

It has been documented that in SA both the Scottish and Roman Catholics didn't always register their childrens' births.

You may find this newletter informative
http://www.jaunay.com/newsletter/newsletter8.html

Cando

[kennett]

Adelaide,  the first official settlement of South Australia,   was established in December 1836.

Which makes a claim to be born at Millicent in 1834,  perhaps not impossible,  but rather dubious.

[cando]

Chris you may like the following to either investigate further now that it has been established that Duncan jnr was born 1854.  I suggest there has been a mistranscription of the year ie 3 for 5 in your family records. Easily done.  The detailed information on BISA appears to me to be submitted. 

MCCALLUM Duncan, Mary CAMERON arrived in SA 1O Jul 1840 aboard DAUNTLESS from Greenock
Sources -  2 [McCULLOM],7,23(2) and 41.

Passenger list and a log of the ship DAUNTLESS which sailed from Greenock, 17 Feb 1840 with about 150 passengers for Adelaide, Port Philip and Sydney.  Diary kept by James Falconer, on his way to Adelaide, then on to Melbourne.
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/fh/passengerlists/1840Dauntless.htm

[2]  Register of Emigrant Labourers Applying for a Free Passage to South Australia 1836-41, PRO CO 386/149-151 - At SA Records and may have more information about Duncan.
[7]  Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885, SAGHS, 1986  -   Info posted on the thread by Sashar.
[23] 1841 South Australia Census Returns, SAA, GRG24/13 - below
[41] B Leadbeater, South Australia Births 1836-54, Adelaide, 2010-2012

http://www.jaunay.com/census.php
1. MCALLUM  Duncan

2. MCALLUM Mrs

More information available from the author of the website, for a fee.

Sashar has given you the birth information mention in source 41.

Cheers
Cando

[Aussie Chris]

Thank you Sashar and Cando. The diary is amazing reading. Was that an extraordinary voyage or was that normal ? I don't think any of us would put up with that now. I am getting in touch with another of his relatives who still lives on one of the family farms for any more info.  Chris