It has been many many years since I last blogged about my ancestors. But I have not stopped adding to my family tree and now I have a bit more time on my hands - children left home, retired, etc etc, I can devote a lot more time to the project.
I spent this afternoon idly Googling my 2xGGrandfather Robert Sutherland, Merchant, NSW and came across the following entries in Trove, the digitised newspaper collection from the National Library of Australia
The most relevant entries included:
some notices re bankruptcy:
15 May 1894 in the NSW Government Gazette
[Notice under Section 11 of the Bankruptcy Act, 1887]
In the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Re Robert Sutherland, trading as Sutherland, Son, & Co. of No. 5, King Street, Sydney, also of Raglan Street, Mossman's Bay, near Sydney, general importer and manufacturers agent.
.....
30 August 1894 in The Australian Star
Bankruptcy Court:
In re Robert Sutherland, Manufacturers' Agent, Mosman's Bay. Mr Giblin, the official assignee, expressed the opinion that this was the case of an honourable man seeking the protection of the court. The certificate was ordered to issue.
and some family notices:
Died November 1884 at 80 Victoria Street of Typhoid - James aged 27 years
Married December 1884 at 80 Victoria Street, Annie Dillworth-Simpson to John Scott, son of John Scott of Bruntsfield Cescent, Edinburgh.
Married October 1885 Christina Middlemas Dickson, second daughter of Robert Sutherland to Frank Weston Syer
Sad to find the next entry
Died April 1886 Christina Middlemas Dickson Syer, aged 21 years
Died September 14 1887 at Lawson, Thomas Middlemas aged 29 Years - Son of Robert Sutherland
Robert Sutherland was born in 1826 in Lybster, a village on the east coast of Caithness in Northern Scotland. He was a sailmaker by trade, and went on to work as an agent for a roperie company and later a commission agent. he spent some time in Dundee (possibly during his apprenticeship) then moved to Edinburgh where he married Christina Middlemas. They had nine children:
James (1857-1884)
Thomas Middlemas (1859-1887)
Annie Dilworth Simpson(1862-)
Christina Middlemas Dickson (1865-1886)
Catherine (1867-)
William Morrison (1869-1915)*
Georgina Alexandrina McIntosh (1871-1927)
Robert (1877-)
Eliza (1879-)
The family left Scotland in 1883 on the ss Ben Cruachan and settled in Sydney, where Robert ran his general importing and manufacturers agent business, Sutherland, Son & Co.
* My Great Grandfather was William Morrison Sutherland. He was a government clerk in Tonga, married to Naeomai Mahe, a high-born Tongan woman.
The above information is covered in more depth in previous posts. I've managed to put together a fairly substantial family tree over the years and I'm currently pondering how to proceed...Bear with me... I'll think of something
I spent this afternoon idly Googling my 2xGGrandfather Robert Sutherland, Merchant, NSW and came across the following entries in Trove, the digitised newspaper collection from the National Library of Australia
The most relevant entries included:
some notices re bankruptcy:
15 May 1894 in the NSW Government Gazette
[Notice under Section 11 of the Bankruptcy Act, 1887]
In the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Re Robert Sutherland, trading as Sutherland, Son, & Co. of No. 5, King Street, Sydney, also of Raglan Street, Mossman's Bay, near Sydney, general importer and manufacturers agent.
.....
Bankruptcy Court:
In re Robert Sutherland, Manufacturers' Agent, Mosman's Bay. Mr Giblin, the official assignee, expressed the opinion that this was the case of an honourable man seeking the protection of the court. The certificate was ordered to issue.
[I don't think the bankruptcy affected Robert too adversely - The business seems to have still been operating in King Street in 1900 and the family home in Raglan Street was rather nice so the family were not destitute by any means]
and some family notices:
Died November 1884 at 80 Victoria Street of Typhoid - James aged 27 years
Married December 1884 at 80 Victoria Street, Annie Dillworth-Simpson to John Scott, son of John Scott of Bruntsfield Cescent, Edinburgh.
Married October 1885 Christina Middlemas Dickson, second daughter of Robert Sutherland to Frank Weston Syer
Sad to find the next entry
Died April 1886 Christina Middlemas Dickson Syer, aged 21 years
Died September 14 1887 at Lawson, Thomas Middlemas aged 29 Years - Son of Robert Sutherland
Just to put this in context....
James (1857-1884)
Thomas Middlemas (1859-1887)
Annie Dilworth Simpson(1862-)
Christina Middlemas Dickson (1865-1886)
Catherine (1867-)
William Morrison (1869-1915)*
Georgina Alexandrina McIntosh (1871-1927)
Robert (1877-)
Eliza (1879-)
The family left Scotland in 1883 on the ss Ben Cruachan and settled in Sydney, where Robert ran his general importing and manufacturers agent business, Sutherland, Son & Co.
* My Great Grandfather was William Morrison Sutherland. He was a government clerk in Tonga, married to Naeomai Mahe, a high-born Tongan woman.
The above information is covered in more depth in previous posts. I've managed to put together a fairly substantial family tree over the years and I'm currently pondering how to proceed...Bear with me... I'll think of something
