[Index]
Thomas KINLYSIDE (1795 - 1862)
cartwright, wheelwright, coachbuilder
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
John KINLYSIDE (1817 - 1861)
George Kendall KINLYSIDE (1820 - 1886)
Janet KINLYSIDE (1823 - 1899)
Grace KINLYSIDE (1824 - 1881)
Alice Alison KINLYSIDE (1826 - 1913)
James KINLYSIDE (1831 - 1905)
Mary KINLYSIDE (1832 - 1913)
Alexander KINLYSIDE (1835 - 1865)
Thomas KINLYSIDE (1837 - 1881)
 Thomas KINLYSIDE (1795 - 1862)

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Elizabeth LOCKIE (1799 - 1870)
 John KINLYSIDE











Grace GUTHRIE











b. abt 1795 at Roxborough, Melrose, Scotland
m. abt 1816 Elizabeth LOCKIE (1799 - 1870) at Scotland
d. 27 Jan 1862 at Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia aged 67
Near Relatives of Thomas KINLYSIDE (1795 - 1862)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Father John KINLYSIDE
Mother Grace GUTHRIE

Self Thomas KINLYSIDE abt 1795 Roxborough, Melrose, Scotland 27 Jan 1862 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 67

Wife Elizabeth LOCKIE abt 1799 Scotland 23 Dec 1870 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 71

Son John KINLYSIDE 1817 Scotland 11 Jun 1861 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 44
Son George Kendall KINLYSIDE abt 1820 Scotland 14 Oct 1886 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 66
Daughter Janet KINLYSIDE abt 1823 Scotland 21 Feb 1899 Cobar, New South Wales, Australia 76
Daughter Grace KINLYSIDE 1824 Scotland 19 Jul 1881 Duntroon, ACT, Australia 57
Daughter Alice Alison KINLYSIDE 1826 Scotland 05 Apr 1913 Canberra, ACT, Australia 87
Son James KINLYSIDE abt 1831 Scotland 11 Mar 1905 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 74
Daughter Mary KINLYSIDE 1832 Scotland 07 Sep 1913 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 81
Son Alexander KINLYSIDE 1835 Scotland 20 Aug 1865 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 30
Son Thomas KINLYSIDE 1837 Scotland 24 May 1881 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 44

Daughter in Law Ann PHILLIPS
Daughter in Law Sara Jane 'Jenny' JONES 1859 San Francisco, California, USA
Daughter in Law Priscilla WILLIAMS 1854 Weetangera, New South Wales, Australia 1941 Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia 87
Son in Law Alexander (Sandy) MCDONALD 1822 Inverness-shire, Scotland 16 Nov 1890 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 68
Son in Law Ambrose AUSTEN 1821 Rolvenden, Kent, England 09 Oct 1908 Duntroon, ACT, Australia 87
Son in Law Thomas Charles WILLIS abt 1827 1853 Newtown, New South Wales, Australia 26
Son in Law Thomas BRYANT abt 1825 Bedfordshire, England 29 May 1876 Canberra, ACT, Australia 51
Son in Law James William COOK abt 1835 England 15 May 1898 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 63
Son in Law George Shakespeare JOHNS abt 1831 Malta 09 Dec 1907 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 76

Grandson Thomas Michael Philip KINLYSIDE 1857 Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia 14 Oct 1915 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 58
Granddaughter Mary E KINLYSIDE 1859 Glebe, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson John Alexander Henry KINLYSIDE 1861 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Thomas KINLYSIDE 1849 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1909 60
Granddaughter Sarah Jane KINLYSIDE abt 1853 California, USA 1878 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 25
Grandson George Kendall KINLYSIDE 1877 Yass, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Elizabeth MCDONALD 12 Jun 1843 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 22 Jun 1885 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 42
Granddaughter Flora MCDONALD 1844 Uriarra, New South Wales, Australia 20 May 1921 Petersham, New South Wales, Australia 77
Granddaughter May MCDONALD 1847 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Grace MCDONALD 1848 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Margaret MCDONALD 1852 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1927 Maclean, New South Wales, Australia 75
Grandson Alexander MCDONALD 1853 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia Feb 1908 Orange, New South Wales, Australia 55
Granddaughter Allison MCDONALD 1854 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Archibald MCDONALD 1855 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1902 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 47
Granddaughter Catherine MCDONALD 1858 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 20 Nov 1894 Burra, New South Wales, Australia 36
Grandson Thomas Andrew MCDONALD 1859 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1931 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 72
Granddaughter Mary MCDONALD 1861 Canberra, ACT, Australia
Grandson John William Ferguson Reid MCDONALD 1862 Canberra, ACT, Australia 20 Nov 1942 Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia 80
Granddaughter Georgina Georgiana MCDONALD 1866 Canberra, ACT, Australia 10 Mar 1916 Canberra, ACT, Australia 50
Granddaughter Elizabeth Janet AUSTEN 1847 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 06 Oct 1926 Duntroon, ACT, Australia 79
Granddaughter Alice Mary Elizabeth Morris AUSTEN 1854 Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia 03 Jun 1927 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 73
Granddaughter Jennet McDonald Harriett AUSTEN 1857 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Mary AUSTEN 1859 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1880 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 21
Granddaughter Eliza AUSTEN 1867 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Elizabeth Grace Fanny WILLIS 1851 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 13 Apr 1934 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 83

Events in Thomas KINLYSIDE (1795 - 1862)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
abt 1795 Thomas KINLYSIDE was born Roxborough, Melrose, Scotland 6
abt 1816 21 Married Elizabeth LOCKIE (aged 17) Scotland 6
1817 22 Birth of son John KINLYSIDE Scotland 6
abt 1820 25 Birth of son George Kendall KINLYSIDE Scotland 6
abt 1823 28 Birth of daughter Janet KINLYSIDE Scotland 6
1824 29 Birth of daughter Grace KINLYSIDE Scotland 6
1826 31 Birth of daughter Alice Alison KINLYSIDE Scotland 6
abt 1831 36 Birth of son James KINLYSIDE Scotland 6
1832 37 Birth of daughter Mary KINLYSIDE Scotland 6
1835 40 Birth of son Alexander KINLYSIDE Scotland 6
1837 42 Birth of son Thomas KINLYSIDE Scotland 6
26 Sep 1839 44 Immigration Sydney, New South Wales, Australia per 'Hero' 6
11 Jun 1861 66 Death of son John KINLYSIDE (aged 44) Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 4575/1861 6
27 Jan 1862 67 Thomas KINLYSIDE died Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 5652/1862 6
Source References:
6. Type: Book, Abbr: Queanbeyan Register, Title: Biographical register of Canberra and Queanbeyan: from the district to the Australian Capital Territory 1820-1930, Auth: Peter Proctor, Publ: The Heraldry & Genealogical Society of Canberra, Date: 2001
- Reference = 169 (Name, Notes)
- Reference = 169 (Immigration)
- Reference = 169 (Death)
- Reference = 169 (Marriage)
- Reference = 169 (Birth)
80. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Hall Museum, Title: Hall School Museum and Heritage Centre, Locn: https://museum.hall.act.au/
- Reference = https://museum.hall.act.au/display/1939/person/4094/thomas-kinlyside.html (Name, Notes)
- Notes: Born: 1795; Died: 1862; Married: Elizabeth [Lockie]

The patriarch of the extensive clan of Kinlysides which spread over the 'Canberra Plains' in the nineteenth century was Thomas Kinlyside, born in Berwickshire, Scotland, in 1895. He was the son of John Kinlayson, a storekeeper and shoemaker in Jedburgh, and Grace Guthrie. In 1816, at the age of twenty-one, he married Elizabeth Lockie, eighteen. Twenty three years later in 1839 they set sail for Australia from Leith, Edinburgh. By that time they had a family of nine children, four girls and five boys, born between 1817 and 1838:

John (1817-1861)
George (1819-1886)
Janet (1823-1899)
Grace (1824-1881)
Alison (1829-1913)
James (Jim) (1831-1905)
Mary (1834-1913)
Alexander (1836-1865)
Thomas (1838-1881)
They sailed on the 405 ton ship Hero via Rio de Janeiro on 7th May 1839 and arrived in Sydney 142 days later on 26 September 1839. The family settled initially in Ashfield, where Thomas, with the help of John and George, set up a blacksmiths and wheelwright business. Immigration documents for John and George stated that they were a wheelwright and a millwright respectively. These and related trades were to be a mainstay in the Kinlyside family over the next century.

Although apparently successful enough in Sydney, the family was destined to move south to the Canberra Plains. Janet, the eldest daughter, was the first to make the move, around 1842. She went to a position at Duntroon. In the following year she married Alexander ('Sandy') McDonald. Thomas and the family were to follow in 1858 and began to set up the first blacksmith and wheelwright business in what became the Canberra district, at the property they called The Triangle. The property was on the Yass-Queanbeyan Road (in Canberra today the site of The Triangle is at the intersection of Limestone Avenue and McArthur Avenue) and encompassed a farm, the business and the family home, where various members of the family lived and worked over many years. Son George was in the USA when the move from Sydney was made, but arrived back in 1860 and took over the business from his ageing father.

Thomas died in 1862 at the age of sixty-seven, having suffered from asthma for 16 years – an occupational hazard. His eldest son John sadly predeceased him, having been killed in a horse riding accident the year before. Thomases widow Elizabeth moved to Duntroon to live with her daughter Grace and husband Ambrose Austen at the Duntroon Dairy. Elizabeth died of 'old age' in December 1870, aged seventy-two. Thomas and Elizabeth are buried at St John's cemetery, Canberra.

References
Kimber, P., 1989. The Kinlyside Family in Canberra. Private family publication
Kinlyside family members, 2013. George Kendall Kinlyside : Jack of all trades - master of all. Private family publication.
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