Mary Sinclair Anderson Cameron

Mary married William Henry Skinner on 25 May 1911 in Glen Innes. William was born on 10 May 1884; died in 1963; was buried in Glen Innes, NSW. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Agnes Margaret Skinner was born on 18 Nov 1912 in Glen Innes, NSW; died on 9 Jun 1992 in Liverpool, NSW.
2. Thomas Robert Hugh Skinner was born on 13 Mar 1915 in Glen Innes, NSW; died in 1956 in Sydney; was buried in Glen Innes, NSW.
3. Colin Herbert Anderson Skinner was born on 10 Oct 1918 in Glen Innes, NSW; died on 27 Jan 1942 in Singapore.
4. Max Skinner was born on 16 Sep 1933 in Glen Innes, NSW; died on 18 Feb 2015 in Guyra, NSW.
5. Rex Skinner was born on 16 Sep 1933 in Glen Innes, NSW; died on 14 May 2001 in Waratah, NSW; was buried in Raymond Terrace, NSW.

Notes:

(father Hugh on D.C.)
Grazier at Apple Tree Gully, nr Inverell when bankrupt 8 Feb 1884. Later overseer of Waterloo Station

Robert married Margaret Phillips Cameron on 21 Mar 1867 in Glen Innes. Margaret (daughter of Hugh Stephenson Cameron and Catherine Amelia Watson) was born on 27 May 1844 in Paisley, Scotland; died on 27 Sep 1921 in Glen Innes, NSW. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Immigration ship: Victory

Notes:

Parentage not proven, but accepted as son of Donald Cameron and Jane Proudfoot.
Migration and death details uncertain, but may have been living at Ellerston (Elliston), Scone, NSW in Sep 1840, though a family story tells of his death from tetanus on a ship to Australia, from killing sheep, with Robert Jnr being born on board, in the Great Australian Bight.
Robert Cameron witnessed baptism of Donald's son Robert in Glasgow in 1841, with Hugh and Alexander Cameron'

Robert married Catherine Ranken on 8 Jun 1839? in Muckairn, Argyll? (as Catherine Cameron). Catherine died on 19 Aug 1876 in Glen Innes, NSW. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Catherine Cameron may have been steerage passenger per "Superb" 1839 with Dr Colin Anderson and his wife Mary Sinclair, who also were at Ellerston, Scone (the property of Duncan Sinclair, gent) in 1840.
(She may have died 14 Jun 1893, Inverell - Carol Cameron)

Other Events:

• Immigration ship: Victory

Notes:

Living at Beith, Glasgow at marriage.
He arrived Sydney 2 Apr 1849, with family, per barque "Victory" from Greenock, and settled at "Glenmore", NSW, after first living at Glenmore Rd, Paddington, Sydney and working at the Glenmore Tannery.

Birth:
(or 1816)

Hugh married Catherine Amelia Watson on 30 Jun 1843 in Govan, Glasgow. Catherine was born on 14 May 1819 in Glasgow; died on 27 Jul 1898 in Glenmore, Morongla Creek, NSW; was buried in Cowra, NSW. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Immigration ship: Victory

Notes:

of Barony Parish, Glasgow, dau. of James Watson and Catherine Phillips. Her brother James Watson was a publisher with Nesbitt & Co.

Other Events:

• Ancestor of Line: [Hugh3] CAMERONS of KERRARA

Notes:

Farm Manager, of Gylen Farm, Kerrera, (an island off Oban), Recorded in a document held by Chiefs of MacDougall as proprietor of Farm of Gylen from 1824, more recently called Upper Gylen. From 1838 tenants were Robert & Alexander Cameron, and from 1840 to 1848 Alexander Cameron. A page from a rent book shows Donald Cameron paying £30 pa from 1828 to 1837 and then £60 pa to 1840. Another rent book shows Donald Cameron of Gylen having paid £15

Donald married Jane Proudfoot in ca 1793. Jane was born in ca 1776 in not in Argyll; died on 18 Mar 1849; was buried in Kilmore churchyard, Argyll. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"of Kilmore & Kilbride (Oban district)". A headstone was erected in 1869 by her son Alexander, describing her as "wife of Donald Cameron, late Tennant of Gaylen, Kerrera"