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Australian Pioneer Families

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John McCorkell, John Archibald MacFarlane, James McGill, Charles McGilvray,
Patrick McGinty, Alexander Wright McGuiness, John McHenry,
John Joseph McKay, William McKerlie, Hugh McNaughton, Robert McPhee,

McCorkell

MC CORKLE John, wife Elizabeth Holmes, and daughter Margaret came from Londonderry, Ireland and arrived 26 Jan 1842 on the Robert Benn - for ship notes see my Robert Benn page.
John McCorkell and Eliza Holmes had John, Sarah and Mary baptised in 1850 at St Pauls Church of England, Melbourne. Eliza's surname is recorded in John's death entry.
Eliza McCorkell 1808 - 1880 #9189 aged 72, daughter of Mary Thompson and Charles Holmes
5 Children 1. Margaret McCorkell c1840 wed 1871 #4231 to Peter Peterson
2. John McCorkell 1846 - 1877 #7989 aged 31
3. Sarah Jane McCorkell 1848 - 1909 #11579 aged 61
4. Mary McCorkell 1853 - 1896 #1776 aged 43
5. James McCorkell
2. Sarah Jane McCorkle wed 1868 #707 to John Auld, Brunswick 1870.
Their son, William George Fitzroy Auld, wed Ruth Mary Capp in Melbourne 1902, and their daughter Jean Auld 1917-1990, was my mother (email of this person bounced).
3. Mary McCorkell 1853 - 1896 #1776 aged 43 wed 1873 #1853 to James Wilson Auld
4. Margaret Mccorkell wed 1871 #4231 to Peter Peterson from Sweden
1 Child Peter Peterson 1878 #7594 lived 3 years
From Saturday, 21 February, 2009

"Baptism in the State of Victoria : Number 14 Name Sarah Date of Baptism 13 September 1847 Where Bapt'd In the Colony of Victoria Parents John McCorkill Mother Eliza McCorkill Abode Campaspe Inn Occupation of Father Carpenter Sponsors - Name of Minister J. H. Gregory
John Mccorkell born 4 Oct 1845 and baptised 13 Sep 1850, son of John Mccorkell and Eliza, carpenter at Campaspe Inn, 1850 #25751 - Church Of England St Pauls, Melbourne by Rev JH Gregory
Sarah Mccorkell born 2 Mar 1847 and baptised 13 Sep 1850, dau of John Mccorkell and Eliza F, carpenter at Campaspe Inn, 1850 #25752 - Church Of England St Pauls, Melbourne by Rev JH Gregory
Mary Mccorkell born 15 Aug 1849 and baptised 13 Sep 1850, dau of John Mccorkell and Eliza F, carpenter at Campaspe Inn, 1850 #25753 - Church Of England St Pauls, Melbourne by Rev JH Gregory
Alice Raven Barrow born 16 Dec 1849 and baptised 13 Sep 1850 dau of Henry Barrow and Elizabeth Markant, Inn keeper at Campaspe Inn, 1850 #25754 - Church Of England St Pauls, Melbourne by Rev JH Gregory

And Alice Barrow's father gets mentioned on the web page called The Diary of a Working Clergyman, May 18.1851 — Lunched at Mr. E 's station, and by nightfall arrived, after a forty-mile ride, at an excellent inn, called the Campaspie Inn, kept by a most respectable man of the name of Barrow.
On the table in the sitting-room were a quantity of books, among which I noticed the "Penny Magazine", some of Chambers' Works, and Bulvver's. A few yards from the doors were savages sleeping around their watchfires. Strange mixture of barbarism and civilisation!

Louisa Dolman born 8 Oct 1849 and baptised 16 Sep 1850 dau of Benjamin Dolman and Elizabeth, hawker at Maiden's Punt, Murray River 1850 #25755 - Church Of England St Pauls, Melbourne by Rev JH Gregory
William Parr born 10 Sep 1849 and baptised 16 Sep 1850 son of Frederick William Parr and Mary, labourer at Maiden's Punt, Murray River 1850 #25756 - Church Of England St Pauls, Melbourne by Rev JH Gregory
Edward Charles Ainsworth born 21 July 1849 and baptised 16 Sep 1850 son of James and Mary, shipwright at Tathelia, Murray River 1850 #25757 - Church Of England St Pauls, Melbourne by Rev JH Gregory
John Thomas Dawson born and baptised 16 Sep 1850 son of Thomas and Anne, Engineer at Tathelia, Murray River 1850 #25758 - Church Of England St Pauls, Melbourne by Rev JH Gregory

James Dawson born 13 Jun 1845 and baptised 27 Sep 1850 son of Thomas and Anne M, Engineer at Tathelia, Murray River 1850 #25759 - Church Of England St Pauls, Melbourne by Rev JH Gregory
John Potter born 2 June 1846 and baptised 27 Sep 1850 son of William and Sarah M, dairyman at Murray River 1850 #25760 - Church Of England St Pauls, Melbourne by Rev JH Gregory
Joseph Potter born 5 Jan 1849 and baptised 27 Sep 1850 son of William and Sarah M, dairyman at Murray River 1850 #25761 - Church Of England St Pauls, Melbourne by Rev JH Gregory
Emma Jane Weston born 30 May 1850 and baptised 27 Sep 1850 dau of Paul and Mary F, shepherd at near Gumbour Creek, Murray River 1850 #25762 - Church Of England St Pauls, Melbourne by Rev JH Gregory

Fredk Wm Parr aged 24 came Nov 1849 on the James T Foord with Mary Parr aged 19. Mary died 1882 #7859 aged 63, at Bright, dau of Mary and John McPherson. They had 2 chn baptised, William 1850 and Elizabeth Ann 1854 born at Maiden's Punt

According to J.O.Randell in his "Pastoral Settlement in Northern Victoria, Volume 2: The Campaspe District", William BERTRAM was granted a wine and beer license for the Campaspie Inn (sic) in September 1846, on the east bank of the Campaspe River, two miles below Henry BENNETT's Barnedown Station (p105). Randell says that the Campaspie Inn was situated 2 miles below the present Barnedown Bridge, a spot where a road from Melbourne to the Murray River crossed the Campaspe River (pp418-419). It was right on the boundary of the Muskerry and Campaspe River Stations (p530). On 29 Sep 1849 William Bertram, of Campaspie River, Labourer become Insolvent
The first church service in Dandenong was held on 21 July 1850 in Dunbar's Hotel and conducted by Rev. J.H. Gregory, a bush missionary. A local meeting was held soon after to discuss obtaining a permanent church building and a local committee was formed to coordinate its organisation.
The indefatigable work of the The Reverend J. H. Gregory, the "Bush Missionary," also provided services, with his covered wagon, a mobile vicarage--and his portable church, a tent, with which he itinerated on the Bendigo diggings.
St Matthew's Anglican Church, Cheltenham has among its treasures, also placed in the chapel was a small silver communion set originally given by 44 residents ‘in or near Cheltenham’ to the Rev J H Gregory in 1859 in recognition of his ministry in the very early days of the district’s European settlement.
June, 1873 Rev. J H Gregory All Saints Church, St Kilda seeking certain improvements on the reserve adjoining the school ground next to the Church.
Page 118 - July 5. 1851 — Rode to Maiden's Punt, where an enterprising individual from the Sydney side has arranged a ferry over the Murray, and started a very good inn. Here is already formed, or will shortly be formed, a Township. The hamlet now consists of an inn and about eight or ten huts, with a population of about thirty persons, of whom half are children, all very much neglected.
Page 150 Oct. 7. 1851 — Rode to Maiden's Inn on the Murray, where I received letters which w.ill cause me to ride down to Melbourne directly.
Oct. 8. — Swam my horse over the swollen Murray. Owing to the inundations, the punt, as the great ferry-boat is called, has ceased to work for five or six weeks. My horse was towed behind a boat, and in the middle of the river, getting entangled with the branches of an uprooted floating tree, was very nearly drowned. I went round in another boat a distance of two miles. On the Melbourne side saw a great number of drays camped, awaiting the resumption of the ferry, l rode to Barrow's Inn over thirty-five miles of well-grassed plains. My horse is an old Sydney horse, with a great deal of Arab blood in him, and very much addicted to stumbling. In fact, he fell with me once in the journey.
Oct. 9. — Accompanied by a friend, who was going to Kilmore, I rode to the Mac Ivor inn, a distance of forty miles, through a rich and picturesque country.

MacFarlane

John Archibald MacFarlane came c1852 with Elizabeth Horton and lived at St Kilda then Brighton
2 children 1. Archibald Martin MacFarlane 1853 #1036
2. Sarah Jane Ada MacFarlane 1856 #10515
1. Archibald Martin MacFarlane 1853 #1036 wed 1885 #3729 to Alice Trotman
1 child 1. Alan Archibald MacFarlane 1886 #30348
2. Sarah Jane Ada MacFarlane 1856 #10515 wed 1891 #6740 to Henry King

McGill

James McGill wed 1863 #1983 to Hannah Jones nee Doran and lived at Kyneton
10 children 1. James Thomas McGill 1864 #9325 - 1888 #2637 aged 24
2. Elizabeth McGill 1865 #9365
3. Henry McGill 1866 #15493
4. Frederick John McGill 1867 #15819
5. Margaret Jane McGill 1869 #3096 lived 2 months
6. Margaret Jane McGill 1870 #3186 lived 7 weeks
7. Charles Brown McGill 1871 #17105
8. Geo McGill 1873 #10187
9. Arthur Brown McGill 1875 #9950 lived 6 months
10. Olive Emily McGill 1878 #17068 wed 1911 #5373 to Fredk Cornie
1. James Thomas McGill 1864 #9325 - 1888 #2637 aged 24, wed 1886 #5733 to Elizabeth Crimmins
1 child 1. James Edwin McGill 1887 #26362
Henry Thacker McGill wed 1884 #7082 to Ellen Stratton
9 children 1. Francis Alice McGill 1885 #3752
2. Harry Herbert McGill 1887 #4348
3. Amy Elizth McGill 1889 #19418
4. Ernt Jas McGill 1892 #1845
5. Stanley Chas McGill 1894 #15172
6. Claude Roy McGill 1896 #26586 lived 1 month
7. Constance Gwendoline McGill 1988 - 1900 #13992 lived 1 year
8. Geo Fred McGill 1901 #28499
9. Jack Regd McGill 1903 #27284

McGilvray

Charles McGilvray from Inverness wed 1877 #3429 to Susannah Yates and lived at Yarrawonga
4 children 1. Christina McGilvray 1881 #27121 lived 16 months
2. Florence May McGilvray 1882 #26779
3. Annie Violet McGilvray died 1885 #14408 aged 8 months
4. Edward John McGilvray 1888 #7919

McGinty

Patrick McGinty wed 1856 #2561 to Hannah (Honora) Scully and lived near Geelong
4 children 1. Rosanna McGinty 1858 #17677 wed 1880 #1486 to Charles Sharp
2. Bridget McGinty 1861 #8413
3. Michael McGinty 1863 #2373 lived 2 years
4. John James McGinty 1869 #13325
Bridget McGinty 1861 #8413 wed Samuel Wise lived at Allendale, 4 children

McGuiness

Alexander Wright McGuiness (sometimes McGuinness) 1846 - 1909 #7092 aged 63, son of Mary Anne and James McGuiness, from Bridgewood NSW wed 1868 #2 to Sarah Brown and lived at Ararat then Warack.
11 Children 1. Henry Mcguiness 1869 #111 lived 1 day
2. James Allanson Mcguiness 1870 #133
3. William Thomas Mcguiness 1872 #13363
4. Henrietta Amelia Mcguiness 1874 #26485
5. Alexandra Maria Mcguiness 1876 #26498
6. Ellen Georgina Mcguinness 1881 - 1886 #11427 aged 5 years
7. Martha Clarissa Mcguinness 1883 #13210
8. Sarah Alice May Mcguiness 1885 #14313 wed 1908 #1412 to George Cox
9. Alexander Leonard Mcguiness 1887 #32740 wed 1912 #1849 to Cath Arm Mathieson
10. Geo Hector Mcguiness 1890 #18327 - 1913 #2105 aged 22
11. Cyrus Patron Mcguinness 1894 #33782
4. Hetta Amelia McGuiness 1876 - 1944 #1161 aged 68, died at St Kilda, wed 1897 #5943 to Frederick Tassell 1872 #27221 - 1932 #5539 aged 59, and lived at Colac, 6 Children

McHenry

William McHenry 1834 - 1894 #11901 aged 61, died at Ballarat Hospital, came June 1850 on the Bussorah Merchant with Ann Black 1825 - 1900 #4409 aged 75, and lived at Ballarat
5 Children 1. John McHenry 1854 - 1925 #5292 aged 71
2. Mary Ann McHenry 1856 #8177
3. Margaret McHenry 1858 #1850
4. William McHenry 1860 #8185 - 1901 #4377 aged 40 died at Ballarat
5. James McHenry 1862 #12248
The ship the McHenry's came out in does have some documentation as it was quarantined in Victoria. John had a job to come to in Victoria, a slaughterhouse which makes me think he was a farmer. Mary Blayney is the daughter of Edward Blayney from Ballarat.

William McHenry of Ballarat wed Ann Black & his son John are my great & great grandparents, but I have John McHenry wed 1881 #4886 to Mary Blayney/Blaney 1858 - 1930 #9560 aged 72, daughter of Cath O'Gorman and Edward Blayney died at Footscray Children were born at Ballarat till 1887, then at Footscray

10 Children 1. William Randle McHenry 1882 #20645 lived 2 months
2. Mary McHenry 1885 #23053
3. Catherine McHenry 1883 #21244 wed 1905 #867 to Eugene Bresnan
4. Edward Blayney McHenry 1887 #25695
5. John Francis McHenry 1889 #24127
6. Herbert Vincent McHenry 1891 #12654
7. Maurice Alex McHenry 1893 #3799
8. Martin Thos McHenry 1894 #29324 - 1946 #881 aged 51
9. Philip Constantine McHenry 1896 #11653 - 1952 #13969 aged 56
10. James Joseph Laurence McHenry 1900 #3280
3. Margaret McHenry 1858 #1850 wed 1880 #1346 to Andrew Wilson Veitch

More McHenry pioneers

Shipping records for Assisted British Immigrants to Victoria
Mchenry Daniel 22 (Born 1828) Jun 1850 Bussorah Merchant
Mary McPherson emigrated to Australia on the Bussorah Merchant, along with her parents, Donald and Flora, brothers Archibald and Allan and sisters Catherine and Sarah. Also on board was Mary's married sister, Margaret Gillies accompanied by her husband, Archibald and their children Angus, Alexander and John. John Gillies died at sea on the 8th February 1850, aged one year, soon after leaving Plymouth. This would have saddened the family considerably on their long journey to their new home.

The Bussorah Merchant sailed from Plymouth, England on the 3rd of February 1850 and arrived Geelong, Victoria on the 26th June 1850.

Mchenry William 20 (born 1832) and Mchenry Ann 23 (born 1829) Sep 1852 Bourneup
Mchenry Margt 23 (born 1831) Jan 1854 Wanata

Shipping records for Oliver Lang came Aug 1855 with 423 Unassisted Immigrants to Victoria
Mchenry Jos 35 (born 1820) and Mchenry ---- Mrs 35 (born 1820) with Mchenry Mary A 11 (born 1844)
Mchenry Jas 30 (born 1825) and Mchenry John 28 (born 1827)

Mchenry Jno 1865 - 1919 #10026 aged 54 son of John Mchenry and Martha Robinson died at Wonthaggi

There are more men named John McHenry.


Court records French v. McHenry in the Supreme Court of New South Wales with Justice Dowling J., 9 July 1832 Source: Sydney Gazette, 10 July 1832. The plaintiff in this case was Charles French; the defendant John M'Henry and both built a dam and mill on the Nepean river, with Mr. M'Henry's mill stopped the water; until the rains came. The Assessors intimated that they were satisfied, and found a verdict for the plaintiff, - damages £21

John McHenry had convicts in his employ 1825
McHenry, John . . . . . . . . 3133 in 1821
1823 30 June Land grant to John McHenry of 1600 acres south of the Great Western Highway.
1881 Part of John MacHenry's land is subdivided as the Mountain View Estate.
CASTLEREAGH One of the earliest mills in the Penrith district was a water-driven flour mill built on the banks of the Nepean River at Castlereagh by Mr. John McHENRY in 1834. The mill was operated by a Mr. BELL, then by the ALLEN family until it was demolished in 1872.


John McHenry wed c1887 to Sophia Peters and lived at Clunes
8 children 1. Annie McHenry 1888 #9015
2. Alf Jno McHenry 1893 #8230 lived 21 days
3. Alfred John McHenry 1893 #18459
4. Thomas Frazer McHenry 1895 #24323
5. Albt Victor Norman McHenry 1898 #2247
6. Herbt Jas McHenry 1901 #18069
7. Raymond Clifford McHenry 1903 #16981
8. Angnetta Ruth McHenry 1906 #2090

McKay

John Joseph McKay wed 1899 #7804 to Ethel Caveth Hoare and lived at Richmond
3 Children 1. Francis Angus McKay 1903 #5732 wed Violet Rita Adeline Wilson 12 Jul 1906 - 4 Jun 1938
2. Hilton Egerton McKay 1907 #4809
3. Wm Egerton McKay 1908 #29745

McKerlie

William McKerlie wed 1860 #3981 to Sarah Bales and lived at Sebastopol. Note the first 3 children died in 1867.
6 Children 1. Eliza Jane McKerlie 1861 - 1867 #3755 lived 6 years
2. Emily McKerlie 1863 - 1867 #3760 lived 4 years
3. Amelia McKerlie 1864 - 1867 #3752 lived 3 years
4. Mary Ann McKerlie 1867 - 1887 #6890 aged 22
5. William John McKerlie 1868 #26308
6. Lavinia McKerlie 1870 #21284 - 1927 #10479 aged 56, wed Wilson
7. James Barthw McKerlie 1872 #7191 - 1913 #129 aged 41 wed 1904 #688 to Clara Merle Davis
4. Mary Ann McKerlie 1867 - 1887 #6890 aged 22, wed c1886 to James Isaac Collins Tolmie 6 Sep 1863 #20160 - 1946 died in Hawthorn, Victoria aged 83, their son lived 9 months.

McNaughton

Hugh McNaughton from Sterling wed 1875 #4883 to Mary Helen Mathie 1855 #6289
5 children 1. Daniel McNaughton 1876 #24963
2. Isabella McNaughton 1878 #4440 lived 11 weeks
3. Isabella Selina McNaughton 1879 #4590 lived 1 year
4. Hugh Jas McNaughton 1880 #17892
5. Daisy Jemima Ellen McNaughton 1887 #6338

McPhee

Robert Mcphee from Lamplough wed 1882 #3339 to Mary Ann King
12 children 1. Margaret Mcphee 1884 #6073 lived 1 day
2. Agnes Mcphee 1884 #6074 lived 3 days
3. Robert Alexander Mcphee 1885 #18299
4. Charles Carry Mcphee 1887 #12575
5. Archibald Mcphee
6. Frances Ann Mcphee
7. Ina Jessie Mcphee
8. John Albert Mcphee
9. Mary Agnes Mcphee
10. Robert Alexander Mcphee
11. Rosa Elizabeth Mcphee
12. Roy Douglas Mcphee

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