Emigrated to Australia.Had been a farmer but became a railway worker.
1871 Census - Living with parents.Scholar
1881 Census - Living with parents at Pointzfield.No occupation given.
1897 married in Victoria,Australia.Reg No.6801
B.1836-1924
M.1836-1939
D.1836-1985
Died Ballarat 1956 Reg.No.19987 Died Base Hospital,County Grenville,Ballarat.Usual address 330 Ligar Street.Occupation railway employee.Lived 68 years in Victoria.Emigrated about 1888.Married at Glenthompson.His four sons were alive in 1956.
Thanks for your letter, I would not have remembered Irene and Beryl's Maiden names, this is where you miss your parents.
I do not know if Grandpa worked at Pointzfeld, I just presume he did. On our shipping log of the Luisitania,dated 6 July 1888, It left from the Port of London,279 Passengers, 25 Scottish, 26 Irish,13 Foreigners the balance English.Our copy a bit torn, perhaps arrived 18.8.1888. I do not know who owned the cottages, perhaps his brother John did as he was a carpenter. I also do not know who arranged a pension for Marion.Elaine Munro.
Arrived Melbourne 6Jul1888 on Lusitania and met by his uncle George Mackay at Melbourne Port.Travelled steerage.
Innes visited Scotland in 1936 at the age of 74.
INNES THOMAS MUNRO.
“On the death of my grand father Hugh Munro at Poyntzfield Farm on 12th March 1887 what was left of the family still living on the farm had to move on so the new manager could live in the house with his family. My father then aged 26 and a sister name unknown (Catherine) immigrated to Australia on the same ship, the “S S Lusitania”. My father was a steerage passenger and his sister, cabin class. They were not permitted to have contact with each other during the entire trip of some 6 weeks.
Dad disembarked at Williamstown and then went to Stawell where his uncle George Mackay was located. His sister carried on by ship to Sydney where the voyage terminated. After some time in Australia, my father wrote to lass in Scotland whom he knew, proposing marriage. For some reason, unknown she declined. Later my father met my mother GRACE ALICE WILSON in Glenthomson and they were married on 7TH October 1897.While we were living in Ballarat and dad was working in the Railways Department, he took his annual holidays and announced he was going to Maryborough Queensland to see his sister. This would be between 1913 and 1920. Between 1927 and 1930 I got a call from brother Bill telling me that a Hugh McDonald was in Melbourne and wanted to see John and me. He was living in Queensland and was the living image of my father-short in statue, powerfully built identical in appearance, mannerisms and speech. Hugh or his father or both worked as an engine driver on the Queensland Railways. He would have been about the same age as my brother Bill (born 1899) plus or minus a couple of years.”
G.G.K.Munro 27.8.1994
I have a photograph of Innes and Grace and their four boys taken c.1928.Obtained from Elaine and Ross.Also they sent me a copy of "Coming South" a painting from 1886 by Tom Roberts.Roberts had been a passanger on the Lusitania the previous year.The painting shows part of the foredeck with a variety of passangers.
LUSITANIA - 1880/1886-1887 Code letters: KPTW Official Number: 65888 Master: Captain W. Thomas (1880); Captain Ruthven (1886-87) Rigging: iron single screw Bark; 3 decks & awning deck; 5 bulkheads & 3 partial bulkheads Tonnage: 3,832 tons gross, 3,791 under deck and 2,425 net Dimensions: 379.9 feet long, 41.3 foot beam and holds 35.2 feet deep Construction: 1871, Laird & Bros. in Birkenhead Propulsion: compound engine with 3 inverted cylinders of 36, 60 & 96 inches diameter respectively; stroke 48 inches; operating at 150 p.s.i.; 700 horsepower; third cylinders added in 1886. engine built by T. Richardson & Sons in Hartlepool. Owners: Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. Port of registry: Liverpool Port of survey: London
The Lusitania, 1901 - Passenger List
Submitted by S Lynn Halstead
(This information is from National Archives of Canada, microfilm T-505 LUSITANIA Liverpool, England 1901-06-18 St. John, N.B. [1901-07-01]. Please note that these were the only passengers from that vessel listed on this passenger list. For a full passenger list see the Halifax arrivals reel T-495.
On June 18, 1901 a party of 17 children from the Bristol Emigration Society, Miss Foster in charge, sailed from Liverpool to Saint John, New Brunswick. They were on board the Lusitania, (not to be mistaken with the Cunard vessel Lusitania which was torpedoed and sank in 1917) a ship which was chartered from the Beaver Line by the Allan Line. The vessel was wrecked off Cape Race, Newfoundland, on June 26, 1901. The passengers were brought to Sydney, Nova Scotia by another smaller craft.
Description of the Lusitania
The Lusitania was a 3,877 gross ton ship, length 379.9ft x beam 41.3ft, one funnel, three masts (rigged for sail), clipper stem, iron construction, single screew and a speed of 12 knots. There was accommodation for 84-1st, 100-2nd and 270-3rd class passengers. Built by Laird Bros, Birkenhead, she was launched in June 1871 for the Pacific Steam Navigation Co. Her maiden voyage started on 13th Oct.1871 when she left Liverpool for Valparaiso via Cape Horn. Chartered to Anderson & Anderson's Orient-Pacific Line in Feb.1877, she started her first Plymouth - Melbourne voyage on 28th Jun.1877 and made the passage in 40 days. In 1878 she was purchased by the Orient Steam Navigation Co and continued on the London - Australia service. She was commissioned as an Armed Merchant Cruiser for six months in 1885 during the Russian scare, returned to her owners and re-engined in 1886. She was sold to Elder Dempster's Beaver Line on 31st Mar.1900 and was used on the Liverpool - Halifax - St John NB service. Reverted to Pacific Steam Nav. Co. in July for six months and went back to the Beaver Line in Feb.1901. Chartered to the Allan Line, she was wrecked on 26th Jun.1901 on Cape Race with no loss of life.[North Star to Southern Cross by John M. Maber][Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.1, P&O Line; vol.8, Pacific Steam Nav. Co.; vol.20, Elder Dempster Lines]
Reg.No.of death 16152
Reg.No.of birth 9623
She had three children by different relationships,only one of which was a formal marriage to Hugh Urquhart.
1901 Visisting her half brother Kenneth Mackay at 6 Carnaig St.,Littletown,Dornoch.Domestic cook.
1901 Census with parents.Scholar.
1901 Census with parents.
1901 Census with parents.
Crofter.
1891 Census:Living with parents at Achvandra.Spoke Gaelic and English.
1891 Census living with parents.General domestic servant.Spoke gaelic and english.
1881 Census living with parents.Carpenter.
1891 Census living with parents.Joiner.
1901 Census.2 Carnaig Street,Littletown,Dornoch Parish.Living with wife.Carpenter at home,employer.
Three rooms with windows.Gaelic and English
From second M/C - Address Carnaig Cottage,Dornoch.
From D/C - Carpenter contractor.
From M/C - Domestic servant.Housekeeper.Address 8 Lansdown Cr.,Glasgow.