Hi . This is all I Know The Pate Story From the Marriage certificate of John Pate and Sarah Kane nee Strudley we learn that that John`s parents are George Pate a miller and Bessie McKerrow , which could be McAra . This is the only information which I can find on this couple .The only avenue left is to check county by county the 1841 or 1851 census . John Pate and Sarah Kane nee Strudley John ( Morton?) Pate born c1840 Edinburgh came to Australia on the ship as an engineer , which had sailed very far down south to get the good winds , but the extreme cold killed a lot of children and older people for which the Captain was charged with endangering lives . As passengers we have John and Sarah Kane and daughter Jessie . Because of the traumas of the trip they had a spontaneous party when they tied up at at Port Melbourne .Everyone became "happy" and Mr Kane fell over board and drowned May 1861( as per Marriage certificate of John Pate and Sarah Kane nee Strudley ) .John Pate is said to dive in and tried to save him . The above is handed down family stories which cannot be verified by documentation . The name of the ship cannot be found nor can the marriage or birth record be found in England . How Sarah and 2 year old daughter Jessie survived in a strange country is unknown , but we assume John Pate , who left the ship also , would have had a hand in it for they were married on the 26th December 1863 at 22 Moray Place Emerald Hill .Very little is known about their lives except that he was a train driver on the new expanding Victorian rail network from Newport . Someone told me he was a dour scot with no sense of humour and used to sit in his favourite chair in his smoking jacket and smoke his smelly pipe . They had the following children . George Ernest b.1864 and d. 1882 Emerald Hill Mary Blanche b.1867 Emerald Hill m. Henry Skinner 1898 South Melbourne . Was Skinner`s Playground in Moray st. named after him? Flora Annette b.1872 Emerald Hill m. John Sampson Kent 18th September 1895 South Melbourne John Morton b.1876 Emerald Hill m. Flora Louise Allnut 1903 South Melbourne Sarah Edith b.1878 Emerald Hill m. Ernest Alfred Cathie 1904 South Melbourne Frances Evelyn b. 1879 Emerald Hill m. Walter John Germa(o)n 1903 South Melbourne William Charles b.1881 Emerald Hill m. Elsie Julie Evans 1910 South Melbourne . Sarah died 24th December 1915 in South Melbourne aged 76 and John died 26th December 1925 aged 84 . Flora Annette Pate Flora Annette was born 10th November 1872 at 122a Moray Street Emerald Hill . Nothing is known until she married John Sampson Kent but one wonders how she became a social butterfly when her great grandmother , the wife of a labourer died a pauper and her grandmother , the wife of a blacksmith`s labourer who died young and her mother spent her childhood in the Henley Union Workhouse before coming to Australia .Perhaps , when she found freedom from a frugal house to the glamour of being married to a successful man , it changed her whole personality . Her story continues as the wife of John Sampson Kent .