Robert Forsyth Macgeorge

History

Family

• John MacGeorge died from tuberculosis
• Robert Forsyth Macgeorge, Jnr married Emily Nichols on 27 December 1854, died in Dunedin, New Zealand.
• Margaret Macgeorge married John Stewart Turner on 29 November 1843
• Alexander Macgeorge JP took over father's shop, moved it to 40 King William Street, sold to partner George Doolette in 1875. He married Mary Hordern on 2 August 1851, had home Ballangeich in Mitcham; second marriage to Rachel Elizabeth Luxmoore on 31 January 1866. They left for Victoria around 1880, died in Malvern.
• Alice Annie Macgeorge may have died before family left Britain, as Elizabeth Macgeorge has been designated "second daughter".
• William Macgeorge died after falling from his pony.
• Elizabeth "Eliza" Macgeorge married Francis Hardey Faulding on 16 September 1852. She married again, to Anthony Forster on 1 December 1869. They divorced six years later, citing her infidelity with one Stark.
• James Macgeorge architect and businessman
• David King Macgeorge died from caries of the thighbone
• Farie Macgeorge married Catherine "Kate" Thomson in Coburg, Victoria on 10 April 1871. In Scotland early 1860s: promoted to First Lieutenant with City of Edinburgh Artillery Militia in May 1861. Appointed Surveyor 1865; defined boundary between SA and NSW 1867; with Victorian Geodetic Survey; turned to astronomy: observer at Great Melbourne Telescope 1870–1872 under Robert Ellery, succeeding Albert Le Sueur. Invented an improved clinometer used in diamond drilling, patented 1882. Lived St James Estate, Hawthorn, Victoria; took up with "spiritualist medium" Mrs. Maria Theresa Jackson; was beneficiary of disputed will of miner/pastoralist George Lamont; returned to Scotland c. 1882.
• Ellison Barbara Christina "Ellen" Macgeorge married Richard Ernest Minchin on 16 August 1883.

• Mary Jane Macgeorge married John Wood Farrar on 31 May 1864.
• Charlotte Isabel Macgeorge married Eustace Powhatan Sabine on 20 September 1865. He was a brother of Clement Sabine.
• Catherine Turner Macgeorge married George Francis Wyatt on 20 September 1865.
• William John Macgeorge was manager of the Bank of South Australia's Sydney office, also consul for Peru in NSW.