Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie

[daisypetals01]

Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie (9 May 1819 - 11 June 1894), the British-born Canadian judge.  Born on board a British ship sailing around Cape of Good Hope destined for Mauritius. 
Son of Thomas Sterling Begbie??  Not sure.
I am curious as to who his mother was? Is there any genealogy info. out there besides his Bio.?
Thankyou!

More info. on him:
Went to school in Elizabeth College, Guernsey. Also educated at Cambridge.
Called to the Bar, 1844.
Emmigrated to BC Canada
A Judge in British Columbia, 1858-70.
Chief Justice of the province of British Columbia, 1870-94.
A noted frontier judge; played a signal part in preserving law and order during the days of the 'gold rush.'Knighted, Oct. 26, 1875, at Balmoral.
Died June 11, 1894, at Victoria, British Columbia.

[gortonboy]

To begin at the beginning, historians are unsure as to Begbie's birthplace. For a goodly time, many believed that he saw his first day in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. Although he was indeed of Scottish parentage, he was not born in that land. In 1819, Captain John Stirling Begbie of the British Imperial Army, embarked with his pregnant wife, Mary Hamilton Begbie née Baillie, on a sea journey to Mauritius. It was either at Mauritius then, or earlier, off the Cape of Good Hope and on board one of the ships that Matthew was birthed.

source  http://www.barkerville.com/vol4/first.htm

[daisypetals01]

Thankyou for your reply.
It gets confusing.
I live in BC, Canada and have been to Barkerville a few times and have seen all what has been written on him. Some of it is based on ?
(Same thing has happened to my grandfather's historical homestead for the benefit of tourism. I am amazed sometimes at what can be "contrived" as facts.)

Other sources put Thomas Sterling as his father. All you have to do is Google his name. E.g.
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/begbie_matthew_baillie_12E.html
http://ukga.org/cgi-bin/genealogy/indiv.pl?16354
What is true?

I am actually looking for information on his mother's family specifically as apparently my English granny was related to him somehow. She was Audrey Myrtle Hitchcock, daughter of George Armstrong Hitchcock who I have been investigating on here.
Thankyou.

[daisypetals01]

Is there somewhere else that I should post to look for information on Matthew Baillie Begbie?