Fanny (Nicholson) MacKenzie (abt. 1805 - abt. 1898)

Born about 1805 in Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland

Wife of Thomas MacKenzie — married 20 Oct 1829 in Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland

Died about 1898 at about age 93 in Balmain North, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Details at: http://www.thosebefore.com/g12/p12849.htm

Fanny (Nicholson) MacKenzie was born in Scotland.

Fanny (Nicholson) MacKenzie came free to the Colony of New South Wales (1788-1900)

Fanny Nicholson was born in 1805 in the Parish of Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland.^[1] She was baptised on Saturday 22 June 1805 in the Parish of Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland.^[2][3] She may have been born on 1 March 1808 in Sutherland, Scotland.^[4]

In 1829, sisters Anne and Fanny both married local house carpenters.

She married Thomas MacKenzie, a house carpenter, son of James MacKenzie and Margaret Aird, in a Church of Scotland ceremony in Manse on Tuesday 20 October 1829 in Culag, the Parish of Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland. It was the first marriage in the Parish for more than 3 months.^[5]

However, younger sister Fanny and her husband Thomas decided to emmigrate to New South Wales, leaving Anne and her husband.

Thomas and Fanny, having decided to resettle in the Colonies took their young family back to the Ross family seat at Ardchronie, the Parish of Edderton, Ross-shire, Scotland, a journey of 50 miles (80 km) cross Scotland. they stayed there for a week or longer, returning with Thomas' sister Grace.^[6]

Fanny and her husband Thomas emigrated with their children and Fanny's brother Donald. from Lochinver, the parish of Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland, on 21 October 1838 on the James Moran a 600 ton bark. The James Moran, largely carried those subject to the Highland clearances, and came via Rev. John Dunmore Lang's bounty scheme.^[7] Fanny could read and write.^[8] She was a house servant on 23 October 1838.^[9] After a voyage of 113 days (almost four months) Fanny and her husband Thomas arrived at Port Jackson, New South Wales, on 11 February 1839 with their family. However, their young son Malcolm, less than a year old, died on the voyage.. The vessel called at the Cape of Good Hope from late December to the 2nd of January 1839. Whilst there, some of the passengers wrote a letter to the Commissioner of Emigration in Scotland, complimenting the food, the Surgeon and the Master, and expressing a hope that their comments would relieve "a dread of the hardships they may be made to endure on the passage". At the Cape they picked up 20 survivors from the wreck of the Dunlop and conveyed them to Port Jackson.^[10]

She almost certainly attended the wedding of her brother in the marriage of Donald Nicholson and Margaret Brown in a Presbyterian ceremony in Free Presbyterian Church in Pitt Street on Friday 19 March 1841 in Sydney. It isn't known how they met but perhaps it was through Donald's work. After their marriage Donald and Margaret lived in Parramatta at least until the start of the new year. Together they were to go on to have 10 children over 18 years.^[11]

Her husband Thomas was mentioned in a book written 38 years after his death circa 1843: "They arrived out safe and well and Donald got some contracts house-building by which he made some money, and then, joining a party, he went off through "the bush," with some idea of locating land for himself and family under the advantageous terms then given to emmigrants. The party was attacked by natives (blacks) and Thomas' companion was killed but he escaped by climbing up a tree, and finally settled in "Balmain via Sydney, New South Wales.^[12]""

Fanny wrote a letter to her sister Anne on 4 July 1860: "I was left with eight children to provide for, but thank God, they are nearly all able to take care of themselves. My eldest son Charles is at the diggings, but I have not seen him for seven years, and I cannot tell where he is at present. My next, James, is married and living in Sydney; he is following the trade of a butcher; he has two children. Donald has served his time as a shipwright; he has gone to New Zealand. Tom is serving his apprenticeship to the same trade. My daughter Margaret is married, and living very very comfortably; she has two sons. Mary is at service in Sydney, and my two youngest, Fanny and Grace, are still at home." This was '"the last letter received in the old country from any of the family.^[13]"

Fanny died in 1898 in the Sydney suburb of Balmain North. ^[14]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth: Family Search (A service provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) (https://familysearch.org) indexing project (batch) number C11044-2, system origin: Scotland-ODM, source film number 101977, 990560.
2. ↑ Baptism: Parish Registers for Assynt, 1798- Old Parish Registers Births 044/ 10 29 Assynt Page 29 of 159.
3. ↑ Family Search (A service provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) (https://familysearch.org) indexing project (batch) numberC11044-2, system origin: Scotland-ODM, source film number 101977, 990560.
4. ↑ Biographical Database of Australia Biographical Database of Australia, (https://www.bda-online.org.au/) Passenger Entitlement Certificates for persons on Bounty Ships 1838-1841 Mrs Fanny McKenzie, Gender: F; Arrived per James Moran Ship Captain: Daniel Ferguson; Arrived: 11 Feb 1839; Arrival Status: Free Passenger, at Sydney;, Embarked from: Lochinver [SUT SCT] Embarked for Australia: 22 Oct 1838; Family: Y; Marriage Status: Married; Aged: 30 years; Born: 1 Mar 1808, Born at [SUT SCT]; Education: Reads & Writes; Religion: Presbyterian; Employment: House Servant; Employment Organisation: Government; Mother: May McDougall, Original number: 092; State Records Ref.: 4/4844.
5. ↑ Marriage: Parish Registers for Assynt, 1798- 20/10/1829 NICHOLSON, FANNY (Old Parish Registers Marriages 044/ 20 99 Assynt) Page 99 of 139.
6. ↑ Campbell Munro Ross Mackenzie The Chronicles of the Ardchronie Children, Imrie & Graham, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, revised (1888) (unknown repository, unknown repository reference) p.37.
7. ↑ Emigration: Donald Nicholson; "James Moran" passenger manifest; NSW Bounty passengers; series GM10 from SLV.
8. ↑ Biographical Database of Australia Biographical Database of Australia, (https://www.bda-online.org.au/) Passenger Entitlement Certificates for persons on Bounty Ships 1838-1841 Mrs Fanny McKenzie, Gender: F; Arrived per James Moran Ship Captain: Daniel Ferguson; Arrived: 11 Feb 1839; Arrival Status: Free Passenger, at Sydney;, Embarked from: Lochinver [SUT SCT] Embarked for Australia: 22 Oct 1838; Family: Y; Marriage Status: Married; Aged: 30 years; Born: 1 Mar 1808, Born at [SUT SCT]; Education: Reads & Writes; Religion: Presbyterian; Employment: House Servant; Employment Organisation: Government; Mother: May McDougall, Original number: 092; State Records Ref.: 4/4844.
9. ↑ Biographical Database of Australia Biographical Database of Australia, (https://www.bda-online.org.au/) Passenger Entitlement Certificates for persons on Bounty Ships 1838-1841 Mrs Fanny McKenzie, Gender: F; Arrived per James Moran Ship Captain: Daniel Ferguson; Arrived: 11 Feb 1839; Arrival Status: Free Passenger, at Sydney;, Embarked from: Lochinver [SUT SCT] Embarked for Australia: 22 Oct 1838; Family: Y; Marriage Status: Married; Aged: 30 years; Born: 1 Mar 1808, Born at [SUT SCT]; Education: Reads & Writes; Religion: Presbyterian; Employment: House Servant; Employment Organisation: Government; Mother: May McDougall, Original number: 092; State Records Ref.: 4/4844.
10. ↑ Donald Nicholson, "James Moran" passenger manifest.
11. ↑ Parish Registers for Scot's Church Sydney, 1788-1856, Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Vol. 75 entry 932.
12. ↑ Mackenzie The Chronicles of the Ardchronie Children p.37.
13. ↑ Mackenzie The Chronicles of the Ardchronie Children p.37.
14. ↑ Death: rivate Nicholson Source, Genealogical Notes, January 2013, Wulguru, Queensland (Tim Hill's collection, NAME-Nicholson) p.1.

See also:

• "Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQQR-ZYC : 12 February 2020), Fanny Nicholson, 1805.

• "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY7V-VJ9 : 11 February 2020), Fanny Nicholson in entry for Thomas Mackenzie, 1829.

• "Australia, New South Wales, Index to Bounty Immigrants, 1828-1842", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL27-J2Q : 13 June 2019), Fanny McKensie in entry for Thomas McKensie, 1839.

• "Australia, New South Wales, Index to Bounty Immigrants, 1828-1842", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL27-JX8 : 13 June 2019), Fanny McKensie, 1839.