CATHERINE MacQUARRIE and family

[John Bird]

Hi All
Donald McDonald was born abt 1785 on Isle of Gometra Argyll. He married Catherine MacQuarrie, born 1804 on Isle of Ulva, at Oskamull on Isle of Mull in 1826. Catherine was a cousin of Lachlan Macquarrie early Governor of New South Wales.

Donald died in 1847 and shortly afterwards Catherine and her family were subject to the highland clearances; and Catherine and her 10 children emigrated to Victoria Australia. The family settled in Branxholme, a country town in western Victoria. Her childrens' names were Niel, Euphemia, Ann, Malcom, Margaret, Flora, Mary, Sarah,Catherine and Christina.

I would like to make contact with anyone who may be related to the McDonald/MacQuarrie families.

regards


John

[LesleyB]

Hi John
Doesn't look like there are any members currently researching McDonald/MacQuarrie families, but new people are joining Talking Scot all the time, so someone may connect with your post at some point.

Best wishes
Lesley

[ninatoo]

No information for you, but I just saw the name MacQuarrie and instantly thought of Governor MacQuarrie. At school I had the most awfully boring Australian History teacher who demanded that we read and summarise ALL of the extracts for MacQuarrie's time in the colonies, during our two week term break and I just hated it! There was a whole book of them to get through and this was the kind of teacher whom you did not cross! Need I mention I didn't do a great job, as I wasn't very good at summarising back then, and it didn't interest me in the slightest anyway, and so I incurred the teacher's wrath. So the very name MacQuarrie still conjurs vivid memories of this teacher and his fixation on the Governor to this very day.

But, oh the difference age makes....I would probably thoroughly enjoy reading the extracts now, and although I do recall them being rather dry, I am sure they would be full of little snippets of colonial life which would interest the family historian in me.