On the 1882 Qld dc for Jane BLAIR, a dau of John BLAIR and Jane DUN, the informant (grandson William KIPPEN of Ipswich) has provided info that Jane was born Glasgow, and was about 36 years in Queensland. She had married William BLAIR in Glasgow at 18 years of age, and she had three children living, Jane 36 years, Elizabeth 33 years and Gordon 30 years.
Here is a Jane BLAIR arriving to Moreton Bay in the 1850s.
http://indexes.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/list.aspx?series=NRS5316&item=4_4791&ship=William%20Miles page 12
SINGLE FEMALES
Jane BLAIR, 33, House Servant, Stirlingshire, Presb (Presbyterian), Both (Read and Write).
Please note on that voyage, that there’s also the KIPPER (ie KIPPEN) as in Jane, sister of Gordon BLAIR, and her family, listed at page 3 and the AITKEN (ie AIKEN) family listed at page 2, as in Elizabeth, sister of Gordon BLAIR, and her family.
I recall several discussions from earlier on this thread about this/these details for the BLAIR family.
Earlier today, my husband and I spent some time with two older relatives, aged in their 90s, who while physically needing some assistance, continue to be actively alert in their thinking. I gently asked them what expectations they would place on a short report on their own ancestors .... I asked how many generations back would they want someone to research, and what depth, including if they would want 'warts and all'.
They are both former NSW BDM senior officers, and so have open minds about the validity of info on informant driven certificates. Both served in the 2nd AIF during WWII and in the Occupation forces in Japan.
But, in general terms, they would expect to hear about the generation earlier than their grandparents because while they knew their grandparents, they only know of their great grand's. They would expect to learn about the last generation prior to migration to Australia, and all the warts and all about every generation up to their Grandparents in Australia. From their grandparents to their own generation and then beyond through to current youngest .... that's the responsibility of themselves to share. (May I note that both chaps do share, and are actively part of my 'phone a rellie' for help in responding to many RChatters on the Australia Board).
I hope their views are useful to our OP in determining how to and what to communicate about Gordon BLAIR and Julia DROUGHTON, the parents of Henry Gordon, who married Margaret JONES, and included among Henry Gordon and Margaret's children was Isabella, whose Qld death registration has not yet been located, but whom is confirmed by our OP as deceased, and whose registration should be displayed at Qld BDM index as it occurred much more than 30 years ago.
JM
