Stories, records and thoughts about

James McVicar & Caroline Janet McNab

who married at St. Sepulchre Parish Church, Holborn, London

13 February 1853

and bits and pieces on some of their many also-deceased descendants, and proven and possible ancestors.

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your readers need to be able to check back here to find any corrections and new information. Thank you.

Photo: St Sepulchre-without-Newgate at Holborn Viaduct, near the Old Bailey, London, in 2020

The traditional nursery rhyme, "Oranges & Lemons" includes the bells of St Sepulchre as "the Bells of Old Bailey".

More information, including a bells-ringing, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges_and_Lemons

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What's Newest on this Site

3 Feb 2026: Adelaide Mary: Added photo and life history.

2 Feb 2026: Janet Agnes "Aunty Jen". Added info, including Victoria map showing locations where Janet taught. Created by Anne Young, with my grateful thanks, but we're not sure if every version of Google will open it. Please advise if you can't.

31 Jan 2006: Eliza Frances McVicar: Removal of Beavis Sisters' reference to the High Street fire, replacing it with the full report in the Avoca Mail.

1 Jan 2026: Agnes Janet McVicar: Addition of mainly list of 9 beneficiaries of her 1947 will, made not very long before she died.

7 June 2025: Rewording and correction various areas continues, today in the "Further into the Past" page.

NOTE: DNA TESTING: The writer does not recommend DNA testing because it includes a great loss of privacy for the testee and a large number of their present, past and future relatives. However, DNA test results which ALREADY exist - the genie out of the bottle - often contain valuable historial information. Should you wish to share the information here, please send your findings to me and I will publish what seem to be general trends. Current ones are showing 1. that 'Our" McVicars are related to those in in the Trunkey Creek area of N.S.W. who "arrived" in the 1830s, most direct from the Scottsh Highlands, 2. that the McNabs trickled down the East Coast of the UK from Scotland, and 3. that the Davises of London were, not surprisingly, in the deeper past, Welsh.

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