Caroline Agnes McVicar

This second daughter of James and Janet was born 30/3/1855, registered 4422 at Creswick, where James ran the Glasgow Store.  

Caroline Agnes Mcvicar

On 9/11/1888, Caroline, 33, a domestic, whose father James was a miner, married Mungo Watson Brown, Cordial Manufacturer, a bachelor, aged 43, whose father was a deceased storekeeper, at the residence of James McVicar, presumably her brother, Avoca.   The witnesses were the bride's siblings, Alexander John and Eliza Frances McVicar.

Records show that in 1900, the Browns were ratepayers at No.1 Creek. It is known that they lived on what became the property of William Ford, which became a very popular strawberry garden and picnic spot. Caroline died in 1912 at Maryborough.  

Caroline and Mungo’s children were

Elsie Agnes, born 1/10/1889, married George Cross, of Carwarp in 1918, died 26/3/1959 at Red Cliffs.

Agnes Watson, born 31/3/1891, married Edward Gollop in 1917, and died 24/2/1945, aged 53, in Melbourne. Her autograph of 25/1/1916 is in her cousin Lil Cullinan’s autograph book.

John Alexander, born 1893 at Avoca, enlisted in the Great War on 2/5/1916, was killed in Belgium on 8/6/1917, and buried at Ypres (Menin Gate Memorial).

Caroline Janet, died 2/12/1894, aged 2 months, and buried at Avoca

James Neil, born 26/1/1897 at Avoca, and it seems, not the James Brown, the school teacher promoted to Navarre in 1908.  Our James enlisted in the Great War on 22/7/1915,  and died on service, 7 September 1917 at Wimereux, Pas de Calais, France.  His record is available on line at www.naa,gov.au, reference SERN 4741.  

Caroline Janet, born 21/5/1900 at Avoca, married Walter Ellis Mossop in 1924, ran a boarding house in Underbool, and died 15/1/1978 at Ouyen.

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