LINDSAY
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"Endure with Strength"

First Settlers in Australia

 Go to the Surgeon John Harris Surgeon John Harris
 Go to Hugh Lindsay Hugh Lindsay
 Go to Jane Magee Jane Magee
 Go to William Barley William Barley / Barlow
 Go to Mary Ann Manning Mary Ann Manning
 Go to John Tye John Tye / Tighe
 Go to Harriet Coggeshall Harriet Coggeshall
 Go to Margaret Flanaghan Margaret Flanaghan

Other Ancestors

 Go to Margaret Duncan Margaret Duncan
 Go to Sarah Ann Moon Sarah   Moon   (nee Barlow)
 Go to Emily Peddell Emily Peddell  (nee Davis)
 Go to Thomas Manning Thomas Manning
 Go to Mary Underwood Mary Underwood
 Go to John Barley John Barley
 Go to Sarah Meadows Sarah Meadows
 
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Great Grandmother - Margaret Flanagan
Margaret Flanaghan
1828 - 1888

 

 Genealogy Home Page for Lindsay family history
Our family name, Lindsay, originally of Scottish origin, has been in Australia with my family for 6 generations. My Lindsay family ancestors came to Australia early last century, primarily from Northern Ireland and Suffolk, England. Therefore our Australian roots are primarily British, the Lindsay's obviously going to Ireland from Scotland much earlier.
The Lindsay family history in Australia really began, Friday 25 June 1790, when the advance ship of the 2nd Fleet, the Surprize, sailed into Sydney Cove. On board, was the Surgeon John Harris, a founding pioneer of Australia, from whom we are all collaterally descended. He was my Great Great Great Great Uncle, and in 1833 he sponsored his niece, Jane Magee, to come to Australia with her husband, Hugh Lindsay, sister Elizabeth and husband Samuel Stinson to manage his properties. When he died in 1838, he was one of the richest men in the Colony. Jane inherited his property "Bardenarang" at Pitt Town Bottoms near Windsor, NSW.
Tragically, Jane died in 1842 from the complications of childbirth and contact with the Harris family was lost, her sister, Elizabeth, had already moved to the Wagga Wagga district. Hugh struggled on trying to maintain the farm and raise the family, but the constant flooding of the Nepean River eventually ensured the farm could not be maintained and lived on. His Grandson finally left the Pitt Town area in 1916 to give his family a new start in the city. So what the Surgeon John Harris saw as excellent farming land when he purchased it for his family to settle on, proved to be nothing more than a fertile flood plain.
The Scottish Lindsay motto "Endure with Strength" is obviously appropriate  for our family's struggle to survive in Australia!
 
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John Harris Lindsay

 

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Convict Interest
 
 William Barley's
 Go to William Barley's Ticket of Leave Ticket of Leave
 Go to William Barley's Certificate of Freedom Certificate of Freedom
 
Go to the Surgeon John Harris's Will Surgeon John Harris's Will
Links to other sites
 
Sites of Interest 
 
 Go to Nepean Family History Society web site Nepean Family History Soc.
 Go to Australian Family Tree Connections AFTC magazine
 Go to Australian Family Tree Connections Hawkesbury Family History

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