Notes

Note N1183 Index

List of Immigrants per Ship JOHN KNOX as inspected by the Immigration Board, on 1st May 1856

Number 18 McKay Elizabeth aged 19 House Servant Macquarie Harbour Van Dieman's :amd Edward & Ann both decd CoE R&W an Aunt - a [coz] Ann Gilroy living in Sydney (health) Good (behaviour on ship) None

Number 19 McKay Sarah aged 21 House Servant Stepney (Cootehill, Cavan) ditto ditto ditto ditto Good None

NB - no sign of any Stepney in the Cootehill area [2013-07-31]

Notes

Note N1184 Index

Taking birth date and location from JOHN KNOX shipping transcript.

Stepney, Coathill [Cootehill], Cavan

Surname : McKay
First Name : Sarah
Age on arrival : 21
Native Place : Stepney, Coathill [Cootehill], Cavan
Parents : Edward & Ann (both dead)
Religion : Church of England
Ship name : John Knox (Sydney Apr 1850)
Workhouse : Cavan, Cootehill
Other : Shipping: house servant, can read & write, relations in colony: an aunt, a cousin, Ann Gilroy, living in Sydney. Sister, Elizabeth, also on board John Knox - see her entry for more details.

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It is highly unlikely that Sarah, or any of the Mackay children, were born in Ferozepore. Ferozepore is over 4000mi (6000km) from Madras/Chennai.

It is fairly clear that the 63rd Regiment had nothing to do with Ferozepore (there was no mention of Ferozepore in the British Army Muster Books for the 63rd Regiment of Foot), which would have probably been taken care of by the 62nd Regiment or the 17th Regiment ( ), or at least regiments located on the Western side of India.

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Notes

Note N1185 Index

An aunt, Ann Gilroy, living in Sydney

Notes

Note H1186 Index

2014-05-04 - found newspaper article for Elizabeth Comber Hardy referring to her staying with her aunt "whose husband, Dr Walker. was Government Medical Officer" at Turon diggings.

Found other newspaper references to Bertha Sarah [unknown] who married Westby Walker.

Supposition that if Elizabeth Mackie Comber had son George Westby Walker Comber, then there is a relationship... it is possible that Sarah Mackie is indeed Bertha Sarah Walker.

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2017-06-14 - RESEARCH REQUIRED ON SARAH MCKAY (Western Sydney Records Office)

Registers and indexes of applications for orphans
(4/4715-17; microfilm copy SR Reel 3111). 3 vols.
Registers and indexes of applications for orphans
Description

Each entry records the progressive number and date of the application, name and address of the applicant, type of employment offered, and result of the application.

The volumes are of the same kind used to register and index ordinary letters received. These applications were processed separately for administrative convenience

(4/4715-17; microfilm copy SR Reel 3111). 3 vols.

- inspiration source - McClaughlin, Trevor, "Earl Grey’s Irish Famine Orphans (34)" blog dated 27 May 2016 at 19:47
"....If i was to do a similar exercise again, my starting point would be the people who actually employed the orphans. Since the 1980s, we have been able to identify many more of the orphans' employers. See the website http://www.irishfaminememorial.org/en/orphans/....."

that is - search for Sarah Emilia and Edward Coomber/Comber, etc...

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2014-05-04 - found newspaper article for Elizabeth Comber Hardy referring to her staying with her aunt "whose husband, Dr Walker. was Government Medical Officer" at Turon diggings.

Found other newspaper references to Bertha Sarah [unknown] who married Westby Walker.

Supposition that if Elizabeth Mackie Comber had son George Westby Walker Comber, then there is a relationship... it is possible that Sarah Mackie is indeed Bertha Sarah Walker.

Notes

Note N1188 Index

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Fredrick married Nora Jane Smyth, daughter of Robert Devlin Smyth and Mary Jane Mackey. (Nora Jane Smyth was born on 24 Jul 1857 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, died on 21 Apr 1894 in Granite, , UT and was buried on 25 Apr 1894 in Salt Lake City, , UT.)

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Nora Jane Smyth

* Born: 24 Jul 1857, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
* Marriage: (1): Joshua Hill 15 May 1889, Salt Lake City, , UT
* Marriage: (2): Fredrick Cave
* Died: 21 Apr 1894, Granite, , UT, at age 36
* Buried: 25 Apr 1894, Salt Lake City, , UT

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Notes

Note N1189 Index

James, Mary Eleanor
Gender: Female
Birth date: 29 Oct 1852
Birthplace: Merthyr, Tydfil, Wales
Death date: 26 Oct 1939
Deathplace: Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah
Departure: Left Liverpool, England on 30 Apr 1866 aboard the John Bright
Arrival: Arrived in New York, New York on 6 Jun 1866
Marriage(s): Married to Thomas, John on 2 Sep 1869 at Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah
Sources: Ancestral File