Ken,
Sorry, just looked at how I answered your questions and realised it might be a bit difficult to find amongst the other text. I've recopied it here in this body of message to highlight it better.
Don't have their marriage certificate yet, this information came from an extract entry of birth for Maggie, born 02-05-1871 Extracted from the Register Book of Births for the District of Rutherglen in the county of Lanark.
The information about her rest was taken from her grave and cemetary records about 20 years ago when you were able to access the records at a cemetary. The story about the 2 eldest boys was a "family story", however it is evident from the fact that they were both born prior to the marriage that there is possibly a reason for doubt as to their father.
Maggie was born in Rutherglen, Lanark, Scotland and was shown on the 1881 census with her family George, Isabella and John were not shown on this, so I'm presuming were either not living at home then or were deceased. Therefore Maggie left Scotland sometime after 1881 and travelled to Australia, what I don't know is if she came alone (would that be usual for a young lady) or if any of her family came with her? She was married in Queensland in1894 I'm told (family information)
Thanks Ken, hope that is sufficient info, thanks for your buttistance
Tasmanian MarriagesHope this is of help to you Pat. Indexes The Tasmanian Pioneers Index An index of all birth, rest and marriage records for the period 1803 - 1899 Where is...
David
PS; I don't have any information on Maggie's parents at this stage, that will be my next project, to try and locate their birth, marriage and rest records.
Anstruther McGOWAN at Torbay, New ZealandAnstruther McGowan was born 5 Sept 1868 plus 1 at Dumfries, Scotland. Anstruther's parents were James Hairstens McGowan c1836-1918 and Annie Fuller Marshall c1841-bef1901. At the time...
I William brother father or her (family