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Birth:
BBB

Died:
BBB

John married McBEAN, Helen (Nellie) in 1927 in Victoria, Australia. Helen (daughter of McBEAN, Charles Elgin Mcgregor and MONTEITH, Janet Brown Dods) was born in 1898 in Carlton, Victoria, Australia; died in 1977 in Mildura, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Chas. is recorded in the Birth Index as Charles Elgin McBean, at the time of his wedding, he was a salesman and lived in Carlton, Victoria. They had a Grocery Shop in South Melbourne. There was an inquest into his death. He was living in Cambridge St. Collingwood, at the time of his death.

Charles married MONTEITH, Janet Brown Dods on 15 Aug 1894 in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. Janet (daughter of MONTEATH (MONTEITH), Alexander and STALEY, Mary) was born on 30 Apr 1873 in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia; died in 1958 in Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
In the Presbyterian Church,Janet's brother Hugh and her soon to be Brother in Law, Henry Darling McBean, Mary Monteath and Jeanie Monteath were the witnesses.

Alexander married CARFRAE, Margaret Flint in 1857 in Victoria, Australia. Margaret was born about 1831; died in 1896 in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In 1851, Alexander is a 14 year old living with at Lint Riggs, Stirlingshire,with his parents and 4 siblings, his occupation being Iron Moulder. Alexander immigrated to Australia as a single man on an unassisted passage without any other memberers of his family when he was 20 years old. He boarded the "Mindoro" which left Liverpool on 22 April 1856 and arrived in Melbourne on 14 July 1856. He purchased the land prior to his marriage.and built the cottage where the family lived, he waas described as a labourer on his arrival in Australia and he soon moved to Castlemaine where he worked as a foundry employee with Vivian & Co. and later with Thompson's Foundry where his eldest two sons, Hugh and Thomas, worked w ith him. Messrsrs Vivian & Co. Foundry began operations in 1857 and was probably the earliest foundry in Castlemaine, it was partially destroyed by fire in 1877 when Thompson's Foundry purchased most of the machinery. Alexander acquired two adjoining blocks of land facing Verlin Street and Happy Valley Road in Castlemaine in an original subdivision of land in 1862, the two blocks are numbered 14 and 15 on the original subdivision plan, which still shows the name "A.Monteath" and an area of about 65,000 square feet with the measurements shown in acres, rods and perches. The original cottage was built by Alexander in 1862 and was still in use some 120 years later. He died at 56 years of age in 1893 of exhaustion caused by iron dust in his lungs from the foundry.

Alexander married STALEY, Mary on 15 Jan 1863 in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. Mary (daughter of STALEY, Thomas and HAMILTON, Elisabeth) was born on 8 Sep 1844 in Greenburn, Parish Of Whitburn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland; died on 5 Oct 1915 in Kew, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 7 Oct 1915 in Campbell's Creek, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary lived for 64 years in Victoria after her arrival on board the "Reaper" back in 1853, she married at 18 years in her parents home at Moonlight Flat, she had 14 children, 11 of whom had families of their own. At the time of her death in 1915 she was living at Barkers Road, Kew.

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Married:
Alexander and Mary were married at the father of the brides 's home at Moonlight Flat near Castlemaine. Both were members of the Presbyterian denomination. Moonlight Flat was a well-populated locality in those days.