Hello again Reader,
In the left column below is a link to a webpage for each of James' and Janet's thirteen children. The first and last died as babies, and little can be recorded here for them. At the other extreme, some had very long lives and/or have many descendants. I would like to use the capacity of this site (and my time!) primarily to record information on
James' and Janet's son Archibald Henry McVicar, and daughter Florence Margaret McVicar, who were my ancestors,
James' and Janet's children who had no known children. That's James Neil, Florence Amy, Eliza Frances, Agnes Janet, and John Angus McVicar.
I am hoping that descendants of Caroline Agnes, Evelyn Clara, George William, and Alexander John are working on websites or annotated family trees for their respective ancestors, and are willing to let me add each address to this website. A webpage for Adelaide Mary and her child already exists but due to the tragic nature of Mary's life, her family has asked for privacy for the time being.
I've used Google Sites to record this McVicar information not least because I don't have enough knowledge of any other website building program to even start, let alone advise anyone else, but I have found this Google program to be within my limited brain capacity! If you have the time, but are a bit reluctant, I suggest you think of the spirit of your pioneering ancestors, and at least have a try :) Best wishes, Tom W.
The children of James and Janet, in birth order, are as follows
Janet Caroline - 1854, Sydney
Caroline Agnes -1855, Creswick
James Neil - 1857, Chinaman's Flat, via Maryborough, Victoria.
Adelaide Mary - 1858, White Hills (via Maryborough, not Bendigo).
Florence Amy -1860, not registered, but probably Mountain Hut.
Evelyn Clara - 1862, probably Mountain Hut.
Archibald Henry - 1863, my great grandfather, Mountain Hut
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Eliza Frances - 1865, Mountain Hut
George William - 1867, Mountain Hut
Alexander John 1869, Mountain Hut
Janet Agnes (reg. as Agnes Janet), 1872, Mountain Hut
John Angus 1879, Mountain Hut
Neil - 1881, Mountain Hut
The children of James and Janet, in death order, are as follows
Janet Caroline - 1854, Sydney, aged < one year.
Florence Amy - 1879, on the Avoca - Mountain Hut Rd., aged 19, of typhoid fever.
Neil - 1881, Mountain Hut, aged one day.
James, their father, in 1896, died in the Amherst Hospital, aged 69, of a stroke.
John Angus, 1898, in Adelaide, aged nearly 18, of pneumonia, following a horse accident.
Caroline Agnes, Mrs Mungo Watson Brown, 1912, Maryborough Hospital, aged 57.
Eliza Frances, 1914, Maryborough Hospital, aged 49, of carcinoma of the bowel.
Caroline Janet, their mother, in 1916, died in the School residence, Muckleford, of old age, aged 82.
James Neil, 1920, Mosquito Flat, Maryborough, aged 62, when his gun discharged as he climbed through a fence.
Adelaide Mary, 1933, at an Ararat hospital, aged 75, of a stroke.
Evelyn Clara, Mrs Hattersley, Yackandandah, 1935, aged 73.
Janet Agnes, Mentone, 1947, aged 74.
Alexander John, 1953, aged 84.
Archibald Henry, 1954, Ouyen Hospital, aged 90, of old age.
George William, 1955, aged 87.
Below: A collection of McVicar descendants, at Dory Rothe's house, Cosmo Road, Trentham 1987.
Back: Selwyn, son of Archibald Henry, his wife, Alma, Dory Rothe, daughter of Alexander John (Sandy), Jim, son of Arch jnr. (all now deceased).
Front: Carol W. and Tom W. great grand-children of Archibald Henry.