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Birth | Mary Caroline Heckner was born in 1848.1 |
Marriage | She married Robert Daniel Morton.1 |
Son | James Walter Morton (b. 26 August 1872, d. 1944) |
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Father | Henry Christian Germer (d. 1926) |
Mother | Eliza Ann Appleyard |
Birth | Irene Burnley Germer was born in 1901 in Albury, New South Wales, Australia.1 |
Marriage | She married Clarence “Jack” Gaylard in 1923 in Tumbarumba, New South Wales, Australia. Irene Burnley Germer was, age ~22, Clarence “Jack” Gaylard was, age ~25.1 |
Death | She died in 1971 at age ~70 in Holbrook, New South Wales, Australia.1 |
Son | Allan Clarence Gaylard (b. about 1927, d. 1967) |
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Marriage | Henry Christian Germer married Eliza Ann Appleyard.1 |
Death | He died in 1926.1 |
Daughter | Irene Burnley Germer+ (b. 1901, d. 1971) |
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Marriage | Eliza Ann Appleyard married Henry Christian Germer.1 |
Daughter | Irene Burnley Germer+ (b. 1901, d. 1971) |
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Father | Clarence “Jack” Gaylard (b. 20 March 1898) |
Mother | Irene Burnley Germer (b. 1901, d. 1971) |
Birth | Allan Clarence Gaylard was born about 1927.1 |
Death | He died in 1967 at age ~40.1 |
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Father | Andrew Small |
Mother | Margaret Scott |
Birth | Margaret Small was born on 23 November 1809 in Dundee, Angus, Scotland.1 |
Marriage | She married Captain John Stevenson on 18 December 1835 in Dundee, Angus, Scotland. Margaret Small was, age 26, Captain John Stevenson was, age 44. a widow1 |
Death | She died on 26 November 1838 at age 29 in Eden, New South Wales, Australia.1 |
Son | George Imlay Stevenson+ (b. 23 August 1837, d. 18 June 1920) |
Daughter | Margaret Small Stevenson (b. 20 November 1838, d. 15 February 1898) |
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Birth | May Bachelor was born say 1785. |
Marriage | She married Captain John Stevenson in 1815 in Dundee, Angus, Scotland. May Bachelor was, age ~30, Captain John Stevenson was, age ~24.1 |
Daughter | Annie Amelia Stevenson (b. 1825, d. 9 April 1903) |
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Marriage | Henry John Stevenson married Christina Campbell.1 |
Son | Captain John Stevenson+ (b. 18 June 1791, d. 28 March 1874) |
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Marriage | Christina Campbell married Henry John Stevenson.1 |
Son | Captain John Stevenson+ (b. 18 June 1791, d. 28 March 1874) |
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Father | Captain John Stevenson (b. 18 June 1791, d. 28 March 1874) |
Mother | May Bachelor (b. say 1785) |
Birth | Annie Amelia Stevenson was born in 1825 in Dundee, Angus, Scotland.1 |
Death | She died on 9 April 1903 at age ~78 in Bombala, New South Wales. |
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Father | Captain John Stevenson (b. 18 June 1791, d. 28 March 1874) |
Mother | Margaret Small (b. 23 November 1809, d. 26 November 1838) |
Birth | Margaret Small Stevenson was born on 20 November 1838 in Eden, New South Wales, Australia.1 |
Marriage | She married James Fairweather on 14 June 1871 in Eden, New South Wales. Margaret Small Stevenson was, age 32, James Fairweather was, age 26. |
Death | She died DEATH. FAIRWEATHER.—At Victoria Hospital, Barcaldine, on February 15th, Margaret, the beloved wife of James Fairweather, aged 59 years. on 15 February 1898 at age 59 in Barcaldine, Queensland, Australia.2 |
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Father | Captain John Stevenson (b. 18 June 1791, d. 28 March 1874) |
Mother | Agnes Fairweather (b. 1799, d. 1878) |
Birth | William Martin Stevenson was born in 1836 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.1 |
Death | He died on 20 October 1898 at age ~62 in Wangarabell, Victoria, Australia. |
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Father | Captain John Stevenson (b. 18 June 1791, d. 28 March 1874) |
Mother | Agnes Fairweather (b. 1799, d. 1878) |
Birth | Robert Stevenson was born in 1839.1 |
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Birth | John Walter Stevenson was born in 1841.1 |
Marriage | He married Laura Benjamin.1 |
Death | He died in 1920 at age ~79.1 |
Anecdote (fam) | . For more information on this family see the attached chart.1 |
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Father | Captain John Stevenson (b. 18 June 1791, d. 28 March 1874) |
Mother | Agnes Fairweather (b. 1799, d. 1878) |
Birth | Creighton Fairweather Stevenson was born in 1841 in Browley New South Wales Australia.1 |
Marriage | He married Mary Ann Kearney about 1876. Creighton Fairweather Stevenson was, age ~35, Mary Ann Kearney was, age ~21.1 |
Death | He died on 5 June 1911 at age ~70 in Upper Orara, New South Wales, Australia. |
Anecdote (fam) | . For more information on this family see the attached chart.1 |
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Father | Captain John Stevenson (b. 18 June 1791, d. 28 March 1874) |
Mother | Agnes Fairweather (b. 1799, d. 1878) |
Birth | Douglas Stevenson was born in 1847.1 |
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Father | Captain John Stevenson (b. 18 June 1791, d. 28 March 1874) |
Mother | Agnes Fairweather (b. 1799, d. 1878) |
Birth | Gordon Stevenson was born in 1854.1 |
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Father | Charles Fairweather |
Mother | Janet Ferguson |
Birth | Criehton Fairweather was born in 1808 in Scotland.1 |
Marriage | He married Jessie Kilgour in 1835 in Scotland. Criehton Fairweather was, age ~27, Jessie Kilgour was, age ~23.1 |
Death | He died in 1847 at age ~39.1 |
Anecdote | CRICHTON FAIRWEATHER He was a whaler in Dundee, Scotland. By 1834 he became First Mate of the whaling ship "Horn", sailing under the command of Captain John Stevenson. After Crichton married Jessie Kilgour in 1835, the Fairweathers and Captain Stevenson decided to seek their fortune in Australia. Perhaps it was on hearing stories of the whales being so easily taken in the bays of Tasmania and New South Wales. It is thought that Crichton went first, working his way to New South Wales in a ship by December 1835, which is when Captain Stevenson set out with Margaret Small, Agnes Fairweather, and Jessie Kilgour; to Liverpool to board a cargo ship called The Kilmours and sail to Hobart Town. Captain Stevenson's 10 year old daughter, Amelia, was left in Dundee with Margaret's mother, Margaret Scott, to continue her education. Crichton's wife, Jessie, was the youngest of the group at 23 years of age. 26 year old Margaret Small had just married Captain Stevenson on 18 December 1835. It isn't known when the Captain started his relationship with Agnes, who was 10 years older and unlike Margaret, had not had any formal education - but it's thought Agnes may have been expecting the Captain's child before they set out from Dundee, which means maybe the Captain got her pregnant before he married Margaret!. They all reached Hobart Town on 19 May 1836, and soon after Agnes gave birth to William Stevenson. Captain Stevenson befriended the Imlay brothers - three gentlemen who had come to Two Fold Bay a few years earlier, having been fascinated with stories of how killer whales helped aborigines and early whalers capture and kill the Great Right Whales which came into the bay to calve. The Imlays welcomed Captain Stevenson's expert whaling knowledge. At that time whaling boat crews were almost entirely aboriginals as they were the most skilled local whalers, and understood whale movements in the bay. The business of bay whaling would fill Captain Stevenson's time while the season lasted. Crichton Fairweather remained a mariner all his years in NSW, and sometimes sailed the Imlays ship the Merope. On 6 March 1837 Crichton and Jessie had their first son, John Stevenson Fairweather. On 12 August 1837 George Imlay Stevenson was born to Captain Stevenson and his wife Margaret, followed by a daughter a year later on 20 November 1838 - 6 days after which Margaret died. The baby was named Margaret Small Stevenson. The mother was buried facing the Northern bay where her gravestone remains, still easy to read today. Agnes Fairweather took responsibility for Margaret's two children, George Imlay and Margaret Small Stevenson, along with her own son William. Within a year Agnes was being called Mrs Stevenson. A year later and Agnes had a son, Robert, and Jessie had her second child, Eliza. When Margaret died, Captain Stevenson wrote to her mother, Margaret Scott, in Dundee to inform her of her daughter's death, and to invite her to join them in Two Fold Bay, and bring his daughter Amelia with her. However, Margaret Scott had to stay in Dundee to look after her son, who had been locked up in an asylum after losing his mind. 15 year old Amelia sailed from Grenock, near Glasgow, on the ship Harvest Home on 12 Oct 1839, and reached Sydney on 3 May 1840. By late 1841 Captain Stevenson and his family left Snug Cove for Broulee, a small village two hundred kilometres north of Two Fold Bay. Broulee was expected to become an important town but it offered little protection to shipping and on 9 and 10 October 1841, Stevenson played a vital part in the rescue of some crew of a Schooner, the Rover, that was wrecked on the bay. The report Captain Stevenson wrote to the shipping company in Sydney was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on Monday 25th October 1841. In 1841 Agnes gave birth to John Walter Stevenson, probably in Broulee. Later that year Captain Stevenson, Agnes, Amelia, Jessie, and the 7 children, moved to Mallacoota Inlet. Two bark huts were built on a small point towards the southern headland of the inlet, a position of great beauty. The scene would have included Aboriginal people standing in their bark canoes with spears ready, peering into the water waiting for fish. Theirs seem to have been one of the idyllic early encounters between the Aborigines and the white settlers. The single white group offered no threat to the way of life of the Aborigines. The Aborigines would have known of the good treatment the Aborigines had received from Stevenson and the Imlays at Two Fold Bay. Life at Mallacoota was not easy for Agnes, her son Robert died in 1843 and was buried there in the area still called Captain Stevenson's point. In late 1843 the Stevensons realised that their farming venture at Mallacoota would not succeed, and so moved 50 kilometres up the Genoa River to Wangrabelle, to a tiny parcel of good land surrounded by wilderness. This was to be home to Agnes for the next 12 years. In 1844 Agnes gave birth to Creighton Fairweather Stevenson, and in1845 Jessie gave birth to her second son, James Allan Fairweather. Amelia was 20 when she married James Allan in 1845 at Wangrabelle, and they started their own large family. Captain Stevenson gave James and Amelia the adjacent property called Merramingo 5 years later. By 1854 James and Amelia had moved to East Boyd on Two Fold Bay where James was listed as being a "Ship Wright". In the same year, Agnes and Captain Stevenson had another son, Gordon. Three tragedies struck this little group of pioneers from Dundee during these years. While disembarking from a ship, Jessie Fairweather slipped and was crushed or drowned. Crichton was suffocated by fumes along with other sailors, in the hold of a ship near Jervis Bay. Their tiny daughter, Jessie, was accidentally shot when James Allan went to kill a beast for provisions. Her grave is in the little cemetery at Wangrabelle. So Agnes found herself with quite an extended family to raise consisting of her own children; William, John, Creighton and Gordon; Margaret's children George Imlay and Margaret Small Stevenson; her niece Eliza, and two nephews John and James Fairweather. John Stevenson made full purchase of the run at Wangrabelle in 1850, and he then bought the licence to the Bondi Station Run at auction aged over 75 and moved there with Agnes. Their son William remained at Wangrabelle to manage the property. Agnes's youngest son, Gordon, was the first Stevenson to die at Bondi. They laid him to rest on a high ridge overlooking the homestead and the beautiful rugged hills and valleys of the run. In Oct 1859 George Imlay Stevenson married his sister-like "cousin", Eliza Fairweather, in Bondi. Captain Stevenson bought the lease to Wog Wog at Towamba at this time and that became the home to George and Eliza for the next 20 years. A year later William Stevenson married Isabella Weatherhead in Bondi. She was a daughter of their old friend and neighbour, Alexander Weatherhead, of Nungatta. This couple returned to Wangrabelle, where Isabella remained until her death in 1931. Though the property passed into other hands, Stevenson's grandson William Allan married Isabella Weatherhead's youngest sister, Elizabeth, and they would live in Merramingo for many years. By 1863 the lease to the Bondi run must have been expiring, so on 23 Apr Captain Stevenson selected a 4,000 acre portion of the run and kept the homestead site and the name "Bondi". The next marriage at Bondi came in 1865 and may have been conducted in secret. The 67 year old bride, Agnes Fairweather, married her 85 year old partner, Captain Stevenson. In 1869 James Allan Fairweather married Elizabeth Roberts at Towamba and lived round the area for many years before returning to Wangrabelle where he was killed by a falling tree in 1917 as he tried to collect wild honey. By coincidence, Margaret Small Stevenson married an unrelated James Fairweather at Bondi in 1871. This James died at Gunning in 1896 but just what happened to Margaret is not clear. In 1867 John Stevenson junior brought Laura Benjamin, a fiery young 19 year old lady into the Bondi household. Laura was one of the younger children in a family of five girls and a boy, who came from Port Macquarie. Laura argued often and fiercely with Captain Stevenson. His mind remained sound, but as his body deteriorated with age, he became more dependent on Laura, much to his anguish. Laura's three sons, Lindon, Mortimer and Walter were all born before Captain Stevenson died on 28 March 1874, at the age of 96. He was buried in the same spot as his son Gordon on the hillside, but was buried in a standing position so he could look over his lands. Four trees were planted by the corners of his grave, of which two survive. The year of death appears to be incorrectly engraved on his stone as 1871 instead of 1874, perhaps because of a repair to the stone in 1971. In 1874, after the Captain's death, Laura was again pregnant and she asked her husband to send for a Governess. A 19 year old girl named Mary Ann "Annie" Kearney filled the role, she came from Newcastle in Australia. Annie was a daughter of a coal miner, but she was very well educated, strong minded and attractive, with "town" ways. This all rubbed Laura up the wrong way, and she made Annie's life in Bondi a hell on earth. When Laura's brother-in-law, Creighton Stevenson, announced he was going to marry her, it was a further cause of Laura's wrath. Annie's children and grandchildren grew up with stories of how terrible Laura had been to Annie. Annie and Creighton married in Bondi in February 1876. Soon after, Laura and John moved out to the Mila property they had inherited from Captain Stevenson, and the bitterness between the two families was never resolved. In 1877 Annie and Creighton had the first of 7 children. They named her Agnes after his mum, but she became better known by the nickname "Tot". On 20 Nov 1878 Agnes (mother, not the grandchild) died of respiratory problems in Bondi at the age of 79. She was carried up the hill to rejoin her husband, Captain Stevenson. By 1883, financial problems caused the bank to foreclose on Creighton and Annie's mortgage loan, and along with their daughter Agnes, they became homeless. Annie Stevenson and the children moved to a cottage in Croydon, Sydney. For nearly 20 years after that, Creighton made only brief visits to his family between various kinds of work in the country. In 1884 their daughter Emily was born in Croydon, followed in 1886 by another daughter, Kathleen.2 |
Son | John Stevenson Fairweather (b. 1837, d. 1917) |
Daughter | Emily Eliza Fairweather+ (b. February 1839) |
Daughter | Jessie Fairweather (b. 1842, d. 1842) |
Son | James Fairweather (b. 1845, d. 1917) |
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Birth | Jessie Kilgour was born in 1812.1 |
Marriage | She married Criehton Fairweather in 1835 in Scotland. Jessie Kilgour was, age ~23, Criehton Fairweather was, age ~27.1 |
Death | She died in 1847 at age ~35.1 |
Son | John Stevenson Fairweather (b. 1837, d. 1917) |
Daughter | Emily Eliza Fairweather+ (b. February 1839) |
Daughter | Jessie Fairweather (b. 1842, d. 1842) |
Son | James Fairweather (b. 1845, d. 1917) |
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Marriage | Charles Fairweather married Janet Ferguson.1 |
Son | Criehton Fairweather+ (b. 1808, d. 1847) |
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Marriage | Janet Ferguson married Charles Fairweather.1 |
Son | Criehton Fairweather+ (b. 1808, d. 1847) |
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Father | Criehton Fairweather (b. 1808, d. 1847) |
Mother | Jessie Kilgour (b. 1812, d. 1847) |
Birth | John Stevenson Fairweather was born in 1837 in New South Wales, Australia.1 |
Death | He died in 1917 at age ~80.1 |
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Father | Criehton Fairweather (b. 1808, d. 1847) |
Mother | Jessie Kilgour (b. 1812, d. 1847) |
Birth | Jessie Fairweather was born in 1842 in New South Wales, Australia.1 |
Death | She died in 1842 at age ~0 in New South Wales, Australia.1 |
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Father | Criehton Fairweather (b. 1808, d. 1847) |
Mother | Jessie Kilgour (b. 1812, d. 1847) |
Birth | James Fairweather was born in 1845 in New South Wales, Australia.1 |
Marriage | He married Elizabeth Roberts in 1869 in Eden, New South Wales, Australia.1,2 |
Death | He died in 1917 at age ~72.1 |