James McKeich

1815 - 1864  (48 years)

• Name	James McKeich
  Born	11 Nov 1815	Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, UK
  Christened	11 Nov 1815	Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, UK
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Postillion of Stirling, Investor, Carter, Slaughterman in Victoria, farmer of Yanakie
  Died	14 Jan 1864	Yanakie, Victoria, Australia
  Buried	16 Jan 1864	Yanakie Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
  Siblings	7 siblings
  1. Allan McKeich,   b. 13 Oct 1812, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, UK ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  2. Donald McKeich,   b. 26 Feb 1814, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, UK ,   d. Yes, date unknown,   m. Euphemia Armour (1835)
  3. Neil McKeich,   b. 3 Nov 1817, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, UK ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  4. Mary McKeich,   b. 29 Nov 1819, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, UK ,   d. 25 Dec 1914, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, UK ,   m. John MacNeill (1844)
  5. Charles McKeich,   b. 27 Mar 1822, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, UK ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  6. John McKeich,   b. 22 Oct 1824, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, UK ,   d. Bef 1843
  7. Margaret McKeich,   b. 14 Aug 1828, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, UK ,   d. Yes, date unknown,   m. Archibald McLean (1843)
  Ancestors
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Alexander McKeich,   b. Abt 1755,   d. Yes, date unknown  (Grandfather)  Mary Henderson,   b. Abt 1756, Scotland, UK ,   d. 13 Jun 1824, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, UK  (Age 68 years)  (Grandmother)
  Notes	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.
  Person ID	I5462	Clark
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2011

  
  

  Father	Archibald McKeich,   b. Abt 1776, Carradale, Argyll, Scotland, UK ,   d. Bef 1851, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, UK  (Age 74 years) Other partners Elisabeth McCoag  m. 3 Sep 1802
  Mother	Mary McLean,   b. 16 Aug 1782, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, UK ,   d. Bef 1855, Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, UK  (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F1495	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Wife	Mary Betts,   b. 2 Oct 1831, Polmont, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK ,   d. 10 Feb 1868, South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia  (Age 36 years)
  Married	2 Nov 1849	Barony, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
  	Marriage also recorded on 20 OCT 1849in Stirling
  Children	1. James McKeich,   b. Abt 1849,   d. Abt 1849  (Age 0 years) + 2. Archibald McKeich,   b. Abt 1851, Scotland, UK ,   d. 1940, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand  (Age 89 years) ▻ Emily Gordon  m. 12 Nov 1875 + 3. Robert McKeich,   b. 5 Sep 1855, Mount Arrowratt, Fiery Creek, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 4 Jun 1902, Boer War, Vereeniging, South Africa  (Age 46 years) ▻ Emily Harriet Bicknell  m. 8 Mar 1876 + 4. James McKeich,   b. 5 Sep 1857, Fiery Creek, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 29 Jan 1919, Victoria, Australia  (Age 61 years) ▻ Bessie Fannie Harricks  m. 20 Apr 1899   5. Mary McKeich,   b. 3 May 1859, Beaufort, Victoria, Australia ,   d. Oct 1944, Beaufort, Victoria, Australia  (Age 85 years) ▻ Ronald Alfred Dunbar Sinclair  m. 1879   6. William McKeich,   b. 9 Apr 1861, Beaufort, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 1862, Fiery Creek, Victoria, Australia  (Age 0 years) + 7. Walter McKeich,   b. 10 Jan 1863, Fiery Creek, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 16 Feb 1956, Auckland, New Zealand  (Age 93 years) ▻ Madeline Emily Hayes;   Charlotte Ann Mantell  m. 28 Mar 1888
  Last Modified	5 Jan 2011
  Family ID	F1485	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Born - 11 Nov 1815 - Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, UK Christened - 11 Nov 1815 - Campbeltown, Argyll, Scotland, UK  = Link to Google Earth