George was born in Scotland in 1828 and emigrated to Australia in 1850. His ship was wrecked but he survived and eventally arrived in Sydney, where he married Agnes Craig in 1853. They moved about a bit in NSW and VIC, and in 1858 settled at Bendigo. He was a potter to trade, but he also tried his hand at prospecting for gold in the 1850s.
Agnes Craig or Guthrie had died in 1901 in Prahran. George then married Cecilia Coupland, who I think was probably Cecilia Williams, widow of Alexander Coupland. She died in 1922 aged 75 or 76.
According to his obituary he was survived by a widow, two sons and a daughter.
The daughter was Diana Vernon Guthrie, who married William Knight Stuckenschmidt in 1908. He was born in 1880 in White Hills, which I gather is near Bendigo, and died in 1953, place unknown.
One son was George Washington Guthrie, who married Florence Dunn in 1902. I don't know the name of the other son.
I can find the birth and death of one child, Adamina, born 1854 in Melbourne, died 1856 in Prahran, but I have failed to find the births of either Diana or her two brothers in the birth indexes in VIC, NSW or QLD, or in the LDS Australian Vital Records Index.
Thank goodness for Trove!
But can anyone suggest why the birth records of Diana Vernon, George Washington and their so far nameless brother are apparently missing from the births indexes?
