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Elizabeth MCFARLANE (1845 - 1898)
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Elizabeth MCFARLANE (1845 - 1898)

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Thomas SMITH (1843 - )
Charles MCFARLANE (1809 - 1880) James MCFARLANE



Elizabeth HONOR



Elizabeth WELSH (1820 - 1884) Robert WELSH



Ellen RYAN




b. 07 Oct 1845 at Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
m. abt 1860 Thomas SMITH (1843 - )
d. 13 Oct 1898 aged 53
Parents:
Charles MCFARLANE (1809 - 1880)
Elizabeth WELSH (1820 - 1884)
Siblings (14):
Mary MCFARLANE (1842 - 1917)
Ellen MCFARLANE (1844 - 1917)
Ann MCFARLANE (1846 - )
Agnes MCFARLANE (1847 - 1867)
Charles MCFARLANE (1848 - )
Margaret MCFARLANE (1850 - 1898)
James MCFARLANE (1852 - 1919)
Bridget MCFARLANE (1854 - )
Esther MCFARLANE (1857 - )
Robert MCFARLANE (1858 - 1941)
Catherine MCFARLANE (1860 - )
Kezia Cassier Cassar Jane MCFARLANE (1862 - 1956)
Martha MCFARLANE (1865 - 1867)
Mathew MCFARLANE (1865 - )
Events in Elizabeth MCFARLANE (1845 - 1898)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
07 Oct 1845 Elizabeth MCFARLANE was born Maitland, New South Wales, Australia 6
abt 1860 15 Married Thomas SMITH (aged 17) 18
16 Jul 1880 34 Death of father Charles MCFARLANE (aged 71) Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 9789/1880 6
28 Mar 1884 38 Death of mother Elizabeth WELSH (aged 64) Foxlow, New South Wales, Australia 6
13 Oct 1898 53 Elizabeth MCFARLANE died 18
Personal Notes:
my husband Philip is related to the McFarlane’s through his father Reginald Gordon Smith. We talked to Reg about the family before he passed away so I can maybe fill you in on a few gaps. Our family comes down from Charles and Elizabeth McFarlane’s third child Elizabeth. Elizabeth was born 07/10/1845 and died 13/10/1898. She, along with other McFarlane’s, is buried at St Thomas church of England Cemetery at Carwoola. We have been there and photographed a number of the headstones. At the age of 15 Elizabeth eloped to Braidwood and married Thomas Smith at the Roman Catholic Church Braidwood. He was only about 17 so they were very young. The witnesses at their wedding were Frederick William Cole and Ellen Cole, her sister. Elizabeth & Thomas went on to have 13 children. I can supply their names and date of birth if you want to go that far. We are descended from their fifth child Thomas Samuel born 1870. He married Eliza Draper 08/03/1894 and we descend from their seventh child Reginald Gordon Smith. I can’t supply any information on Thomas Smith because on their marriage certificate he states that his parents are unknown. Try tracing a Smith without any lineage. We have a few very fragile clues which we hope to follow now that we have retired. We think he may have been raised at the Orphan School Parramatta.
When we first started researching The McFarlane’s we went to the State Archives in Canberra. That was pre internet and ancestry searches on line. It was quite interesting as we found records of Charles McFarlane working as a shepherd at Gidley Station. The family seemed to have lived at a place called Foxlow which is where Elizabeth Smith (nee McFarlane) died.

Reg talked about the family holidays to the McFarlane farm and Philip remembers going there as a young boy. Reg gave us the names of his cousins. They were Jim, Harry (probably Henry Charles), Reuben (Arthur Reuben), Frank (John Frances), and Allan Stewart and May, twins born about 1892. Reuben died 29/02/1928 aged 33 of pneumonia in Queanbyan Hospital. It was Allan and May’s farm which the Smith’s visited & Philip describes it as just an old slab hut. They had a tame kangaroo which came in of a winters evening and slept in front of the fire. Aunty May was very put out when her brother Allan bought her a fuel stove. This new fangled thing just didn’t cook sponges properly, so she went back to baking them over the open fire. Philip swears they were the best sponges he’s ever had. I remember meeting Aunty May when Philip & I were courting. She was very ill and so came to Earlwood so that Reg & Edna could look after her. Frank disappeared and wasn’t heard of again. The story goes that as his wife rode up to the front door of Allan & May’s house with a loaded shotgun, Frank took off out the back door and rode off on his horse never to be seen again. Reg said that Frank’s wife’s name was Gladys Soutter. It was believed that Frank went to Galahgenbone to his mate Jack Thompson who used to live at Captains Flat. I don’t think that clue to his final whereabouts has ever been persued.

I hope that the info on Elizabeth McFarlane and the missing twins (Allan & May) helps. Dad also mentioned a Jim. That is a hard one to trace because they don’t seem to use their given name. If you haven’t already been then a visit to St Thomas cemetery at Carwoola is worth the trip if you live in NSW. We stayed at a motel in Canberra. The church is no longer used and just sits in the middle of nowhere but is maintained. We visited the graves and photographed them which was fortunate because a few years later his brother went for a visit and a number of the headstones had been vandalised. What processes people.
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 = 204 (Birth)
- Reference = 204 (Name, Notes)
18. Type: E-mail Message, Abbr: e-mails general pool, Title: e-mails general pool
- Reference = Kathy Smith 27 July 2016 (Marriage)
- Reference = Kathy Smith 27 July 2016 (Death)

This public tree has about 60,100 people. Every person in the tree is related by birth or marriage to at least one other person in the tree - no strays. The people in the tree come mainly from four projects.
  1. My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
  2. Canberra and Queanbeyan Pioneers. The next 30,000 begun about 2004. Sourced almost entirely from HAGSOC's excellent 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan'. The project began when I decided to add siblings, spouses and parents for a relation with an entry in the Register. 12 years work.
  3. Wagga Pioneers. I moved to Wagga and thought I would extend the Queanbeyan project by adding people from Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society's 'Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District'. About 10,300 people added over about a year.
  4. Tumut Valley Pioneers. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I decided to extend the above projects by adding pioneers of the Tumut Valley. Initial sources were Snowden's 'Pioneers of the Tumut Valley' and 'Relict of ... Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District'. Excellent references published by Tumut Family History Group. I've also added material from newspapers of the time - especially, death records, obituaries and weddings from 'Tumut and Adelong Times'. This project is in its early stage and might take a few years. I plan to extend to the upper Monaro (Adaminaby, Kiandra, Cooma, Jindabyne).
I upload new information to this website about every 3 months. My motivation for these projects is to provide public information for people seeking to trace ancestors and what became of them. Much of the information I provide can be difficult to find.
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