Hello All,
I have been bouncing off this brickwall with one of my great-great-uncles for a couple of years and hope folks here can help me out.
Andrew Buchanan (eldest son of Andrew Buchanan and Ann Horn) was born 1859 at Mt Blackwood in Victoria Australia. His parents - Glaswegians - had emigrated to Australia on the
Abdalla in 1853.
Andrew the Younger had married Jeanie Henry:
BUCHANAN - HENRY - On 23rd December,1897
at Scots Church, Collins-street, Melbourne, by the Rev. Dr. Marshall, Andrew Buchanan, eldest son of Andrew Buchanan of Blackwood, to Jeanie Henry, youngest daughter of the late William Henry, of Culnady, Co Derry, Ireland.
What I have cobbled together, is that Andrew and Jeanie could have been members of a mission society and had travelled to South Africa to give service during the Boer War. OR Andrew might have been in South Africa as a merchant/exporter/coffee grower?!?
The only solid info I have are the reports of his death and the fact that his body was brought back to Victoria and he is buried with his parents at Blackwood Cemetery in a family grave.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
News has just been received of the death at Pretoria, South Africa, on January 28, of Mr. Andrew Buchanan, a native of the Blackwood district of Victoria, who left for the seat of war three years ago. The deceased and a companion were proceeding to Mr. Buchanan's residence when a flash of lightning killed him instantly in view of Mrs. Buchanan and her child. Five years ago Mr. Buchanan's father was unable to escape from his burning residence, and so lost his life.
From The Argus, 16 March 1903
BUCHANAN. -On the 28th January, 1903, at the New Military Cantonments, Pretoria, very suddenly, Andrew Buchanan, eldest son of the late Mr. Andrew Buchanan of Blackwood, Victoria.
I have been trying to trace his wife and child Jeanie and their first-born child, a son,
BUCHANAN.—On the 6th October, at "Woodlands," 388 Albert-street, East Melbourne, the wife of Andrew Buchanan—a son.
My ability to get to a public library to access their genealogy resources has become somewhat restricted due to illness, so I would really appreciate any assistance at this time.
Since December 2008, I have been working on a Fletcher/Nicholson/Hook/Buchanan/Hoare/Pope tree at tribalpages. Send me a PM for an invitation to view it. There are a lot of other names as I've been working the marital connections and side-lines.
Thanks,
AJ
