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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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MacAlister, Arthur
Premier of Queensland
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MacArthur, John
Pioneer and founder of the wool industry
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MacCallum, Sir Mungo William
Scholar
- McColl,
Hugh
Pioneer of irrigation
- McCrae,
George Gordon
Poet
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McCulloch, Sir James
Four times premier of Victoria
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MacGregor, Sir William
Administrator, governor of Queensland
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McIlwraith, Sir Thomas
Premier of Queensland
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MacKenzie, Sir Robert Ramsay Bart
Premier of Queensland
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McKinlay,
John
Explorer
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MacLaurin, Sir Henry Normand
Physician and public man
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McLean,
Allan
Politician
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MacLeay, Alexander
Scientist and official, the "father of Zoology" in Australia
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MacLeay,
Sir William John
Politician and scientist
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McMillan,
Angus
Explorer
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Anderson, Sir Francis
Philosopher and educationist
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Berry,
Alexander
Pioneer
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Brisbane,
Sir Thomas MakDougall
Governor of New South Wales, and astronomer
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Brown,
Robert
Botanist
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Burns, Sir
James
Founder of Burns Philp and Co. Ltd and philanthropist
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Cadell,
Francis
Early navigator of the Murray
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Campbell,
Robert
First Sydney merchant
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Chalmers,
James
Missionary
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Cockburn,
Sir John Alexander
Premier of South Australia
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Dibbs, Sir
George Richard
Premier of New South Wales
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Douglas, Sir
Adye
Premier of Tasmania
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Dunlop,
James
Astronomer
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Elder, Sir
Thomas
Pastoralist and public benefactor
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Fisher,
Andrew
Prime minister of Australia
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Forbes,
James
Educationalist
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Gibson, Sir
Robert
Man of business
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Gillies,
Duncan
Premier of Victoria
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Gillies,
William Neil
Premier of Queensland
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Gordon, Sir
John Hannah
Politician and judge
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Graham, Sir
James
Physician and public man
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Grant, James
MacPherson
Politician
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Harper,
Andrew
Biblical scholar
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Harrison,
James
Journalist, and pioneer of meat preserving
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Haswell,
William Aitcheson
Biologist
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Hope, John
Adrian Louis
Seventh Earl of Hopetoun and first Marquis of Linlithgow
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Hughes, Sir
Walter Watson
Founder of the Adelaide university
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Hunter, John
Second governor of New South Wales
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Innes,
Frederick Maitland
Premier of Tasmania
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Jack, Robert
Logan
Geologist
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Johnston, Robert Mackenzie
Statistician and man of science
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Kidston,
William
Premier of Queensland
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King, James
Pioneer
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Lang, John
Dunmore
Politician, miscellaneous writer, and early clergyman
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Lennox,
David
Bridge Builder
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Lindsay,
David
Explorer
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Littlejohn, William Still
Schoolmaster
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Lowrie,
William
Agricultural educationist
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Muir, Thomas
Political reformer
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Munro, James
Premier of Victoria
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Munro-Ferguson, Sir Ronald Craufurd, Viscount Novar
Governor-general of Australia
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Neilson,
John Shaw
Poet
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Nelson, Sir
Hugh Muir
Premier of Queensland
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Nisbet, Hume
Author and Poet
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Panton,
Joseph Anderson
Police magistrate
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Paton, John
Gibson
Missionary
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Petrie,
Thomas
Queensland pioneer
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Philp, Sir
Robert
Premier of Queensland
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Rae, John
Public man, artist, and author
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Ramsay, Hugh
Artist
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Reid, Sir
George Houston
Premier of New South Wales and prime minister of Australia
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Renwick,
Sir Arthur
Public man and philanthropist
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Robertson, George
Bookseller
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Robertson, Thorburns Brailsford
Physiologist and bio-chemist
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Ross, Sir
Robert Dalrymple
Speaker, South Australian house of assembly
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Service,
James
Premier of Victoria
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Spence,
Catherine Helen
Advocate of proportional representation, novelist, journalist and
sociologist
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Spence,
William Guthrie
Labour leader and politician
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Stirling,
Sir James
First governor of Western Australia
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Stuart,
Sir Alexander
Premier of New South Wales
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Stuart, John
McDouall
Explorer
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Stuart, Sir
Thomas Peter Anderson
Physiologist, founder of medical school, university of Sydney
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Sutherland, Alexander
Miscellaneous writer and philosopher
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Sutherland, William
Scientist
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Syme, David
Newspaper proprietor, "the father of protection in Australia"
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Symon, Sir
Josiah Henry
Lawyer and politician
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Thomson, Alexander
A pioneer of Melbourne and Geelong
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Thomson,
Sir Edward Deas
Administrator, and chancellor of Sydney university
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Westgarth, William
Early Victorian merchant and historian
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Whyte, James
Premier of Tasmania
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Wilson, Sir
James Milne
Premier of Tasmania
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Old Scots Don't
Die! They go Home!
By Bob Harper
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Alexander Black (1827-1897)
A
Scot that ventured to Australia and made his name in the field of
surveying, becoming a pioneer surveyor who marked a state boundary
between New South Wales and Victoria and who later went onto become a
Victorian Surveyor-General. Article by Bob Taylor.
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Officer, Sir Robert (1800-1879)
Medical officer and politician, was born on 3 October
1800 near Dundee, Scotland
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White Australia, The Empty
North, Reasons and Remedy
By J. N. MacIntyre (pdf file)
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