Hi Tom, Could this be a birth for a child of theirs? Digger - Pioneer Index. Victoria 1836-1888 Surname: CUTHBERTSON Given Names: Robert Event: B Spouse Surname/Father: Spouse Gvn Names/Mother: Janet CUTHBERSTON Age: Sex: Birth Place: BALLARAT Death Place: Year: 1856 Reg Number: 4578 Is this her re-marrying? -------------------- Surname: CUTHBERTSON Given Names: Janet Event: M Spouse Surname/Father: HASTINGS Spouse Gvn Names/Mother: John Age: Sex: F Birth Place: Death Place: Year: 1856 Reg Number: 15 Could James have died at Sea before his child was born? -------------------- Surname: CUTHBERTSON Given Names: James Event: D Spouse Surname/Father: U Spouse Gvn Names/Mother: Age: 34 Sex: Birth Place: Death Place: SEA Year: 1855 Reg Number: 261M Regards Mary -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Woolman Sent: Tuesday, 27 January 2009 10:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Look Up for James Cuthbertson please Hi Listers, I'd be grateful for any information on a James Cuthbertson (brother of my great great grandmother Janet). He was born to Robert Cuthbertson, a quarryman or stonemason, and Helen Riddell (or Riddle, or similar), and christened at Kilmaurs, Ayrshire on 3/9/1817. He's listed as arriving in December 1854, aged 37, at Port Phillip on the Storm Cloud, with Janet, aged c.23. Family lore has it that they became separated on the goldfields and she never saw him again, and there has been no other information handed down on him. Given that Janet signed her marriage at Ballarat in 1856 with a cross, it's quite possible that he was quite nearby to her, in her long life just outside Maryborough, but that she was deterrred in the effort to find him. James and Jane's siblings were, at least, Marion, c.1819, John c.1822, Margaret Tod, c.1825, Robert c.1827, Helen c.1831, William c.1834 and David c.1836. I'm providing the sibling information in case someone can spot something from the Scottish naming pattern in the children of a James. Unless James was lying, he is NOT the James Cuthbertson who married Jessie Watson on November 1859 at Spring Hill, Pentland Hills, because that James was born in North Sutherland, England, and had the father George. (Much of the rest of the copy of that marriage entry is unreadable, but for any lister who may be interested, the page also includes the marriage of William Grant and Elizabeth Patterson on 23/11/1859 at Bacchus Marsh, and of George Lindsay and Ann(e) Davies on December 5, at what looks like Collingwood, but seems out of territory. Any help would be gratefully received, Tom Woolman _________________________________________________________________ It's simple! Sell your car for just $40 http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fsecure%2Dau%2Eimrworldwide%2 Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fa%2Fci%5F450304%2Fet%5F2%2Fcg%5F801459%2Fpi%5F1004813%2Fa i%5F859641&_t=762955845&_r=tig_OCT07&_m=EXT ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Mary, Thank you very much for the information. I must apologise because I didn't make it clear that the James and Janet Cuthbertson who arrived on the Storm Cloud were brother and sister. I have made some clarifying comments in your kind text. Tom > Digger - Pioneer Index. Victoria 1836-1888 > Surname: CUTHBERTSON > Given Names: Robert > Event: B > Spouse Surname/Father: > Spouse Gvn Names/Mother: Janet CUTHBERSTON > Birth Place: BALLARAT > Year: 1856 > Reg Number: 4578 Tom's comment: This is Janet's "natural" child. The family doesn't know who the father was. > Surname: CUTHBERTSON > Given Names: Janet > Event: M > Spouse Surname/Father: HASTINGS > Spouse Gvn Names/Mother: John > Sex: F > Year: 1856 > Reg Number: 15 Tom's comment: This is Janet, my great great grandmother, marrying my great, great grandfather. Her brother, James Cuthbertson, was not a witness at the wedding. > Could James have died at Sea? > -------------------- > > Surname: CUTHBERTSON > Given Names: James > Event: D > Spouse Surname/Father: U > Spouse Gvn Names/Mother: > Age: 34 > Death Place: SEA > Year: 1855 > Reg Number: 261M Tom's comment: This is something I hadn't thought of. Thank you!! How do I find out more details? We know that James arrived at Port Phillip on the Storm Cloud in December 1854, so is this him on some other voyage? coastal? leaving Australia? returning from having been somewhere else (e.g. New Zealand?) _________________________________________________________________ Need a new place to rent, share or buy? Let ninemsn property help http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fninemsn%2Eseek%2Ecom%2Eau%2F%3Ftracking%3Dsk%3Atl%3Ask%3Anine%3A0%3Ahottag%3Achange&_t=757263783&_r=SEEK_tagline&_m=EXT