Bernice Christobel McKeich

Bernice married Felix Barron [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Anita Kaye Barron
2. David Andrew Barron was born in Aug 1959 in New Zealand; died on 4 Sep 1974 in Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Other Events:

• Alias: Wells

James married Beatrice Mary Good on 27 Jun 1923 in New Zealand. Beatrice was born on 12 Jul 1898 in New Zealand; died on 13 Nov 1981 in New Zealand. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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They have at least 2 children

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• Occupation: butcher

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The NZSG Index on CD, records that "McKeich A." left Melbourne on the "Ringarooma" on 13 November 1875 bound for Bluff. He arrived at Bluff on 17 November 1875.

A. McKeich (presumably Archibald) was single, a miner, aged 29 and born in Scotland. This is the first indication that Archibald was born in Scotland. There is no record of this birth in the IGI Files

The truth is that he married Emily Gordon on 12 November 1875 the day before the sailing and was 24 years of age. Emily was pregnant with their first child, Mary, who was born on 14 April 1876 in Invercargill.

Archibald's date of birth has not been verified although 1851 seems likely since his father, James, left Scotland on 16 September 1850. Mary, James's wife, did not leave for Australia until late 1854 or early 1855 and the second son, Robert, was born at Fiery Creek, Victoria, on 5 September 1855
No record of Mary's sailing can be found.


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No birth record found

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Archibald married Emily Gordon on 12 Nov 1875 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Emily was born in 1855 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; died on 15 Jan 1931 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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All entries for 1922 - 1925 and 1928 electoral roll living at 2 Josephine Street, Caversham
37386, Mckeich, Archibald, Butcher
37388, Mckeich, Emily, Married
37389, Mckeich, Olive Rose, Spinster

All entries for 1931 1935 and 1938 electoral roll living at 2 Josephine Street, Caversham
37386, Mckeich, Archibald, Butcher
37389, Mckeich, Olive Rose, Spinster

Other Events:

• Occupation: Postillion of Stirling, Investor, Carter, Slaughterman in Victoria, farmer of Yanakie

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James was a postillion living in Stirling when he married Mary Bets (Bates).

James left Scotland on 16 September 1850 on board the ship "Madawaska" out of Liverpool. He arrived in Melbourne on 17 December 1850.

James is reputed to have made 10,000 pounds by investing in mines was able to purchase houses and property in Melbourne and Beaufort and paid for his wife and her mother Mary to come to Victoria. He invested some of his money in a firm called Buckley and Nunn. He later sold these shares to the firm which later became the well known Australian Department store "David Jones".

James and his partner Henry Davis purchased the lease on the Yanakie Station in 1862.They traded in horses and sent shiploads to Invercargill. The first of these was supposed to have been lost at sea with the same fate happening to the next shipment. There is some doubt about this however.

After hearing of the loss of the second shipment James died of an "Aneurysm of the Arch of the Aorta" on 14 January 1864.

James is buried in an unmarked grave in the small cemetery at Yanakie.

James married Mary Betts on 2 Nov 1849 in Barony, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. Mary was born on 2 Oct 1831 in Polmont, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK; died on 10 Feb 1868 in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Alias: Bates

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Mary married Henry Davis and had 2 children called Charles Henry and William Ernest

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Married:
Marriage also recorded on 20 OCT 1849in Stirling