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Got a story of a Scots
ancestor? Then do send it in for inclusion on these pages to Alastair McIntyre
- The
Scots who came to Australia
An account of the Scots who came to Australia and what they did
when they got there.
- James
& Maria Snedden
In 1854, my great great grandparents James and
Maria Snedden left their Scottish homeland forever and
travelled half way around the world to Australia in search of a
better life.
- McDonald's
in Australia
My father, Donald Angus McDonald, is the great grandson of John
McDonald who was born in Scotland in 1802 and died in Bendigo,
Victoria (Australia) in about 1897.
- A
History of the Pipes and Drums of the Royal Caledonian Society of
South Australia 1894 - 1994. The oldest Pipe Band in Australia
and New Zealand.
- William Landsborough
Landsborough and John McDouall Stuart were first to cross the continent in
1862.
- Major
General Lachlan Macquarie
Known as ‘The Father of Australia.'
- John
Maltman of Glasgow
A Scot of the McGregor Clan, came
to Australia a free man and played a worthy part in the development
of Queensland.
- Andrew
Fisher
Three-time Labour Prime Minister
- David
Ogilvy
David Ogilvy came from Scotland
to Australia in 1839 and settled in Prahran Victoria.
- From
Caldwell, Scotland to Tasmania
An account of the Mure family.
-
A Short History of Australia
By Ernest Scott (An e-text)
- Donald
MacInnes
A Morven, Argylle man and his
Australian legacy.
- The
Family of John Kyle
The story of their emigration from the Borders of Scotland to
Australia.
- James
MacPherson
Queensland's Only Authentic
Bushranger.
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Death of James Ossian McPherson
Introduction to MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY,
Into the DEATH of James Ossian McPHERSON,
alias Robert BLAKE
- Garry Barr
Nehl
Deputy Speaker of the Australian Government's House of
Representatives, addressing a sitting of Parliament in his
kilt! A first in Australian history!
- Diary of William
Brown
On the Bann, Greenock to Sydney, March - June 1884.
- Scotland
Emigration to Australia 1815 - 1832
An account of Scottish emigration during this period and the
difficulties Scots had of applying for permission to go there.
- Large Scale
Emigration to Australia after 1832
Scotland and Australia 1832-1850.
- Log of the
Ship Dauntless
Sailed from Greenock, 17th February 1840 with about 150 passengers for
Adelaide, Port Philip and Sydney. Kept by James Falconer.
- Explorations
in Australia
The Journals of John McDouall Stuart.
- The Log Books
of the Lady Nelson
by Isa Lee. Ship captained by Lieutenant James Grant, R.N. (This is an
e-text file)
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A Short History of Australia
By Ernest Scott (This is an e-text file)
Mini Bios of Scots-Australians
Looking at all the
significant people that had biographies written about them 12 per cent
were born in Scotland.
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