I'm going to do several of the children in one post as I don't have heaps of information on them.
These will be, James b 1842, William b 1846 and Susan b 1854.
James Donald was the second child of George Donald and Jane/Jean Galbraith to be born in the Colony of New South Wales. Or was he?
With Agnes being born in 1837 there is a a good five year gap until James arrives in 1842 and another six children follow. So is there a couple of 'missing' children? I don't know.
In 1877 at Yass, James married Isabella Cowden and it is sometime after this that they move to the Blue Mountains as their seven children are registered in either Lithgow, Hartley or Wickham.
Children of the marriage;
Agnes J DONALD #14275/1878, Hartley
George Patterson DONALD #15938/1880, Lithgow
Minnie Isabel DONALD #17391/1881, Hartley
Vernon G DONALD # 21248/1884, Lithgow
James L DONALD # 22624/1886, Lithgow
Stanley G DONALD # 19357/1890, Lithgow
Eleanor G DONALD # 37267/1894, Wickham.
James died in 1916 at Balmain in Sydney.
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William Donald was the last son born to George and Jane/Jean in 1849 and baptised in the Yass Presbyterian Church.
In 1876 at Goulburn he married Ellen Johnson 1849-1891. Seven children were born to them, being
William Galbraith, Birth index # 12033/1877, Goulburn
Annie Isabella Alberta, Birth index # 13099/1878, Goulburn
Lilian Agnes, Birth index # 14503/1880, Goulburn
Ellen Jane, Birth index # 10531/1882, Goulburn
Ada Sophia, Birth index # 11448/1883, Goulburn
Eva, Birth index # 13434/1885, Goulburn
Bruce Glencairn, Birth index # 14120/1889, Goulburn.
William died in 1918 at Goulburn and is buried in the Mort Street Presbyterian Cemetery.
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Susan Donald was the last child born to George and Jane/Jean on the 16 August 1854 and she was baptised on 18 September 1854 at the Yass Presbyterian Church.
Aged just 20, she married George Melrose, 1855-1936 at Yass. Like two of her brothers, she had seven children,
Henry Irwin (Irvine), Birth record #21847/1874, father is listed as George Henry Irwin Melrose, place Yass, died 1962
William Arthur Aubrey, birth index # 7320/1877, Armidale, died 1967
Herbert Lesley, birth index # 24793/1880, Tamworth, died 1970
Mina May Evelyn, (Nina), birth index # 28044/1882, Tamworth, died 1939
Albert George Birth index # 32845/1886, Queanbeyan, died 1942
Percy Harold, birth index # 34676/1888, Bungendore, died 1954
Stanley, birth index # 14477/1891, Goulburn, died 1973.
On Susan's death record she is given the middle name of Alston, but that isn't recorded on her baptisimal record.
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